# Pressing your remote to your chin makes your keyless entry work farther away?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressing-your-remote-to-your-chin-makes-your-keyless-entry-work-farther-away/238948>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 8, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressing-your-remote-to-your-chin-makes-your-keyless-entry-work-farther-away/238948 "2004-04-08T13:59:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressing-your-remote-to-your-chin-makes-your-keyless-entry-work-farther-away/238948/1 "2004-04-08T13:59:28Z")

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I know people that swear by this. If you want the remote to your car to work and you’re a little out of its range, press it to your chin, and it’ll work from much farther away. There any evidence to base this claim on at all?

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**Author:** ![FatBaldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@FatBaldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FatBaldGuy)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressing-your-remote-to-your-chin-makes-your-keyless-entry-work-farther-away/238948/2 "2004-04-08T14:02:19Z")

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Here is a [recent thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=42004) on the same subject

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressing-your-remote-to-your-chin-makes-your-keyless-entry-work-farther-away/238948/3 "2004-04-08T14:47:58Z")

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> [@Fat Bald Guy](#):
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> Here is a [recent thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=42004) on the same subject

Wow if that’s your idea of recent, I wonder what you consider to be a long time ago 😉

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**Author:** ![aerodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f08c70/32.png) [@aerodave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aerodave)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressing-your-remote-to-your-chin-makes-your-keyless-entry-work-farther-away/238948/4 "2004-04-08T14:56:35Z")

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Sure, the plural of anecdote is not data…but I’ll add my anecdotal evidence anyway.

The range on my keyless entry remote can be nearly doubled by putting it under my chin. I can extend it from 40 feet to about 75 feet by doing that.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2004, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pressing-your-remote-to-your-chin-makes-your-keyless-entry-work-farther-away/238948/5 "2004-04-08T15:11:54Z")

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I was a skeptic on this, until this past February, when I tried it. I was at the beach, in a flat, unobstructed area. I had the remote under my chin pressing it. When the truck finally responded, I marked the spot (with my feet, of course). I then aimed the remote at Tucker-babe’s truck. No response. I kept doing it until I got a response, then marked that spot. I told Tucker-babe about it (she was busy at this time un-tacking a horse). She, of course, didn’t believe it, until she tried it, using the places I had marked. Same results.