How far can you drive without a key fob?

[robertp]

Car is on, put key fob in the house, drive off without key fob.
How far?

[TonyPSchaefer]

I can not speak for the Gen3 but with the Gen2, once the car is started, you can drive forever as long as you do not turn the car off.
Think of the fob as merely "giving the car permission" to start.

But like I said, my knowledge is on the Gen2.

[Blind Guy]

Originally Posted by TonyPSchaefer

I can not speak for the Gen3 but with the Gen2, once the car is started, you can drive forever as long as you do not turn the car off.
Think of the fob as merely "giving the car permission" to start.

But like I said, my knowledge is on the Gen2.

2010 is the same.

David (aka Blind Guy)

[mgb4tim]

as long as you can stand that beeping

[hobbit]

To play around with the concept and not get stranded, start the
car and then wrap the fob up completely in tinfoil. Then drive
away, go shopping, turn the car off, try to turn it back on,
etc.
.
_H*

[garygid]

I think the car should have a user-option setting to loose power (and possibly "alarm") after "N" minutes (or miles) without the fob.

But, might a query to the fob every N minutes drain the fob's battery too much?

[garygid]

A good "valet" setting perhaps, via a user-set password, would be
to enable only 2 (or N) miles of driving, even with the fob.

As it is, there is no special "valet" mode, right?

[nineinchnail1024]

I have a pretty funny story about this. About two years ago, I was driving my old prius, and I was out with my best friend, his girlfriend and my wife. The girls decided to call it a night, so I dropped them off at my house and we proceeded to the French Quarter. When we got there, I parked the car and we hung out in the French Quarter for about 4 hours. When we got back into the car, I pressed the brake and pushed the power button. Nothing. I couldn't believe it, but the key was in my wife's purse when we dropped her off, and there was no way to start the car. Even worse, we were in a pay by the hour lot. I had to call her about 15 times before she finally woke up. She had no car at the time, so my dad (who live 20 miles from my house) had to wake up and go pick her up and then drive another 10 miles to bring me the key. Moral of the story: Make sure you have the key before you drive off.

[jaguarjac]

Originally Posted by hobbit

To play around with the concept and not get stranded, start the
car and then wrap the fob up completely in tinfoil. Then drive
away, go shopping, turn the car off, try to turn it back on,
etc.
.
_H*

Hobbit,
Does the tinfoil negate the sensor in the fob?I'm
thinking of hiding my extra fob in the car after I have an
extra key made at the locksmith to carry in my wallet.Thus,
if I lose my main fob,I can get into the car and retrieve my other
fob.

P.S. I'm out of tinfoil as of this post

[avocadoman1]

Originally Posted by jaguarjac

Does the tinfoil negate the sensor in the fob?
I'm thinking of hiding my extra fob in the car after I have an
extra key made at the locksmith to carry in my wallet.
Thus, if I lose my main fob,I can get into the car and retrieve my other
fob.

YES!!!

that is really the only practical way to keep an "extra key" on the vehicle in case of emergency.

it's unfortunate that the SKS Fob is so expensive to duplicate (i.e. approx. published retail replacement price = $180 part + $90 programming), otherwise we would all have several duplicates made...