Scary situation when I have to ask this question...

Are you racist against Mexicans?
No I never said it was mexicans that followed me home. I was a blonde young female driving during the night to get into the hospital to work on call. In a red Rx7. Two of the hospitals I worked at, on call, were in bad parts of the town.
 
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Thanks Nass...yeah its crazy here. Car jackings are up 140% over last year. Right around 1400 incidents...insane numbers. It used to be concentrated on the south and west sides of the city but now its making it's way north to the more affluent areas. People are leaving this city in DROVES! We're next. Maybe we'll come live with you guys. I'm a chef and I make amazing roasted Koala paws................................................................................................................:laugh: I kid
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My ex and I moved from Homewood to NWI about four years ago- come and enjoy the safety and lower taxes :) it’s sad how bad Chicago and Cook county are getting
 
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My ex and I moved from Homewood to NWI about four years ago- come and enjoy the safety and lower taxes :) it’s sad how bad Chicago and Cook county are getting
Yeah we've thought about that but if we're moving out of state, I want warmish weather year round. We both have jobs that provide us the opportunity to work anywhere so being here is pointless. High taxes, high crime, crap weather and incompetent leadership. We're talking about starting a family and I absolutely refuse to raise my kids here. We may go back to Scottsdale and we're also looking at possibly Nashville. We'll see :thumbup:
 
Yeah we've thought about that but if we're moving out of state, I want warmish weather year round. We both have jobs that provide us the opportunity to work anywhere so being here is pointless. High taxes, high crime, crap weather and incompetent leadership. We're talking about starting a family and I absolutely refuse to raise my kids here. We may go back to Scottsdale and we're also looking at possibly Nashville. We'll see :thumbup:
I hear Nashville is an amazing place to live :) Scottsdale is stunning too my dad used to have a condo in fountain hills.
 
I hear Nashville is an amazing place to live :) Scottsdale is stunning too my dad used to have a condo in fountain hills.
Yeah we haven't been to Nashville yet but we have friends there that LOVE it so we're taking a trip down there in a few weeks to check it out. I really miss AZ though and love Fountain hills! Has great proximity to a ton of stuff. 5 hrs to Cali, 4 hrs to Vegas, 2 hrs to Sedona, great hiking, golf, swimming everyday, cool day trips to old west ghost towns. My biggest regret is selling our place there. Only reason we're here is for the wife's family but thats quickly getting trumped by the taxes and quality of life here. Hopefully we'll be gone in short order :thumbup:.
 
Stingers have immobilizers, if the key is not detected literally inside the vehicle when the brake is depressed and then the thief try to put it in gear the engine will shut off and he will be sad panda. They could in theory man in the middle your rfid code from ur fob and then use a secondary device to send the signal, that is getting pretty time consuming and premeditated for your friendly neighborhood chitown gang banger. If u want extra protection, Faraday bag ur fobs when not in use so they aren't constantly broadcasting the happy code around ur house.
 
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If u want extra protection, Faraday bag ur fobs when not in use so they aren't constantly broadcasting the happy code around ur house.
faraday bags in my experience stop working after a month or two. I can walk up to my driver door or hatch and they open normally with the fob in the bag. question, does a bag that stops working 100 percent at blocking still reduce the 'painting' range of a scanner? would the scanner have to be really close in order to paint the fob inside a faraday bag that has stopped working?

by the way, i have the exact faraday bags as advertised to the right.

nothing blocks the fob better than wrapped in aluminum foil, one hundred percent invisible to any signal. not convenient when driving to stores and so forth. having to put your fob inside foil each time.
 
So I'm hearing that if I am getting car jacked I should turn the ignition off and then run away whilst flailing.
 
^^Sound advice. Exit the car then run away, hoping the perp can't shoot well and miss your back.
 
get one of those South African anti-car jacking flamethrower devices installed
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Maybe Lap3 can program that into the ECU, call it "enhanced" pops and bangs.
 
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faraday bags in my experience stop working after a month or two. I can walk up to my driver door or hatch and they open normally with the fob in the bag. question, does a bag that stops working 100 percent at blocking still reduce the 'painting' range of a scanner? would the scanner have to be really close in order to paint the fob inside a faraday bag that has stopped working?

by the way, i have the exact faraday bags as advertised to the right.

nothing blocks the fob better than wrapped in aluminum foil, one hundred percent invisible to any signal. not convenient when driving to stores and so forth. having to put your fob inside foil each time.
That doesn't really make sense, unless you tear a hole in the thing. A Faraday cage is just a net of conductive material whose holes are small enough relative to the wavelength of the signal you want to block that it acts the same as a solid sphere (e.g. wrapping in tin foil).

So if the mesh is tight enough to block the signal on day 1, nothing should change in a month, unless it's somehow stretching out or fragile enough that it's tearing as you use it. If you have a non-working bag that you're sure worked to begin with, it might be worth cutting open to investigate.
 
That doesn't really make sense, unless you tear a hole in the thing. A Faraday cage is just a net of conductive material whose holes are small enough relative to the wavelength of the signal you want to block that it acts the same as a solid sphere (e.g. wrapping in tin foil).

So if the mesh is tight enough to block the signal on day 1, nothing should change in a month, unless it's somehow stretching out or fragile enough that it's tearing as you use it. If you have a non-working bag that you're sure worked to begin with, it might be worth cutting open to investigate.
Ima hundred percent sure the bag worked for weeks. I have an mo where I walk up to the car and try to open it, then get out the fob when it won't open: this is because cheaper faraday bags in the past, I've had four before this pair, have done the same thing and stopped working after a while, so I want to tell when it happens again, and it has recently. quite a few reviews on amazon for this exact faraday bag complain about the same issue, works for a while then stops working, as short as one month I've seen described in the reviews, some got half a year out of theirs before the bag stopped working.

I look inside the bag with a flashlight and see nothing amiss, the stitching and 'gold' material look nice and tight, brand new actually, the entire workmanship of these bags appears to be tops, it's just frustrating that they quit blocking for no known reason. I will hypothesize that the 'gold' material of the faraday liner includes a coating, which is what wears off, so keeping the cost down. I'd of course rather have a bag that never wears out as long as there are no holes, rips or failed seams.
 
Im a bit of an Eletromagnetic geek...Im an Electronic Warfare specialist in the navy.
Lower frequencies are harder to absorb into flexible common cheap materials..and they usually use a rubberized so to speak absorbent that doesn't wear well under constant friction or movement. Some nations use them as a stealth method to deny radar detection...same basic principle.
Tinfoil doesn't absorb the EW of the FOB it just reflects it around inside...a less damaging microwave oven effect with 1\100000 of the power.
 
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