We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. For the sake of convenience, the battery in your car's key fob is designed to last a fairly long time, usually up to around four years. The ...

Keyless entry systems have been a standard feature on many vehicles for the past two decades. For the most part, not a lot has changed with the wireless remotes, known as fobs. They use a microchip ...

How Does Your Key Fob Work? The key fob uses wireless technology with a frequency of 433 MHz. There are receivers/transmitters on the vehicle and the key, so they can communicate with each other. This ...

Gone are when you couldn't start your car's engine without a physical key. Modern vehicles today come with key fobs that are more useful than just starting your car and locking and unlocking its doors ...

Hackers have uncovered ways to unlock and start nearly all modern Honda-branded vehicles by wirelessly stealing codes from an owner’s key fob. Dubbed “Rolling Pwn,” the attack allows any individual to ...

The days of replacing a car key by having an inexpensive blank copied and cut at a hardware store are pretty much over. Most new cars today come either with a push-button start system or keyless entry ...

Aphaea records her video from the interior of a car. She holds up a car key fob to the camera beneath a text overlay. The on-screen caption reads, “Honda said it would cost $175 to replace.” As she ...