# Site that blocks car remotes
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-that-blocks-car-remotes/836175
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 27, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-that-blocks-car-remotes/836175 "2019-06-27T18:20:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-that-blocks-car-remotes/836175/1 "2019-06-27T18:20:36Z")
There’s a shopping complex near me (Home Depot, etc.) in whose parking lot car remotes usually don’t work. You have to actually use the key to lock/unlock your car doors. But occasionally they work. What could be the cause of this?
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-that-blocks-car-remotes/836175/2 "2019-06-27T18:36:55Z")
1. It’s just you. Get a new battery for your remote.
2. Observable, repeatable evidence of multiple cars, multiple times, in multiple locations in the lot would narrow it down some.
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### Author:  [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-that-blocks-car-remotes/836175/3 "2019-06-27T19:52:51Z")
While super unlikely, there is a criminal technique that relies on jamming vehicle fob signals.
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### Author:  [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-that-blocks-car-remotes/836175/4 "2019-06-27T19:57:05Z")
> [@panache45](#):
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> There’s a shopping complex near me (Home Depot, etc.) in whose parking lot car remotes usually don’t work. You have to actually use the key to lock/unlock your car doors. But occasionally they work. What could be the cause of this?
Sounds like there is a RF leak nearby. The FCC would be interested. Various Armed Forces radar systems have been known to play havoc with anything using the RF spectrum.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-that-blocks-car-remotes/836175/5 "2019-06-28T01:50:33Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> 1. It’s just you. Get a new battery for your remote.
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> 2. Observable, repeatable evidence of multiple cars, multiple times, in multiple locations in the lot would narrow it down some.
Obviously that’s not the only place I park. The remote works just fine everywhere else.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2019, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/site-that-blocks-car-remotes/836175/6 "2019-06-28T02:32:45Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#):
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> Sounds like there is a RF leak nearby. The FCC would be interested. Various Armed Forces radar systems have been known to play havoc with anything using the RF spectrum.
This related thread [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21634286](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21634286) may be of interest