Last night, one of my neighbours had their car broken into. From the car they were able to unlock the electronic garage doors and thereupon stole a case of wine.
His car keys were in the house. How does this work, and how did they access the garage?
Maybe your neighbour keeps a fob which opens the electric garage door, inside the car. Once they got into the car then it’s easy, just press a button on the fob and hey presto, garage door opens. That’s how ours works.
The car was not damaged. They somehow managed to open the door without 'breaking in'. He said something about them using an electronic device of some kind.
Some cars have a button that can be programmed to the door controller,thus enabling auto open/close.Never bothered with mine for the very reason within the question.
they can get into the car by using a keyless go signal reader. That's why you should not keep your keys/go card near the front door (or better still disable this silly feature). As for the garage door they probably have a control fob in the car so whoever is driving can open the door, no idea other than that.
We have an electric garage door, operated by a remote control; usually the car is kept in the garage. We have two remote controls, one is kept in the house and one in the car. We use the one kept in the house to open the garage door if we are going to go out in the car and the one in the car when we are returning home to open the garage door to put the car in. If the car is on the drive, with a remote control inside, breaking into the car will give access to the garage.
"Does this all mean that he will have to get a new set of keys for his car? " - No but either disable the keyless feature or store the keys away from the front door.
Wolf, there were cars everywhere. They were having a birthday party for their grandaughter and his car had another two cars parked behind it, on the drive.
What makes matters worse is that they were burgled, during the night, just before Christmas.