Keys locked in car
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K2 Kaiju
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Try the onstar ap
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K2 Kaiju
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The app is free for 5 years, at least it was for me...
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App is free, onstar is a subscription....paid monthly and depending on which plan you get about $30-40 a month. Newer trucks may give you 5 year subscription but my '13 tahoe only came with 6 or 8 mths
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Mine was for 6 months when I bought my 16 Hoe last October.
In the end I decided to keep the lowest basic one [about 20 bucks a month] in case I get locked out or need roadside assistance on one of my long trips..Also you have maintenance reminders and the monthly diagnostic report..All that makes me feel better when I travel alone..But that is just me.
K2 Kaiju
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I have a 2013 avalanche, and got 5 years of basic free (saw it online and had to ask for it). Great app. New ones get 5 too, but 11-13 now only get 3 years...
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Very weird right.... it happened to me with in a few weeks of getting the truck. I had left my keys and phone inside the truck. I had it running, I got out the truck to go and clock out. Came back and it was locked. I had to called my wife to bring spear remote. Very weird and has never happend again.
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OnStar/Cadillac app is AWESOME. While I have yet to ever lock my keys in my car I love being able to cool down or heat up my car while out of range of my remote. Plus I have people that need things out of my truck when I'm miles away and I can unlock and lock it without the worry of leaving it unlocked all day.
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I have it now for tracking, after my 2006 Yukon XL was stolen. I got 15 months free after the 4G upgrade. This was special case though.
WillCO
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Yes, I was surprisingly able to lock my keys in my car the other day. I used the OnStar app - I don't think you need a subscription for the keyfob commands to work. I let my subscription lapse and those commands still work for me. I tried them just now.
chicagofan00
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Correct, you get the bare bones features free for the first five years which includes using the fob commands on the app and the monthly status report on the truck.
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For those of us that don't have/ don't want onstar...
I keep my ignition key on a separate little quick-disconnect key ring from my fob and other keys. Then, I just leave the key in the ignition, grab the others, lock the doors and do my thing. I have had older cars with alarms that would automatically lock the doors once the ignition was on. This mostly happened in the driveway but was still a pain. It was also great for warming things up without the risk someone else driving away with my vehicle.
I keep my ignition key on a separate little quick-disconnect key ring from my fob and other keys. Then, I just leave the key in the ignition, grab the others, lock the doors and do my thing. I have had older cars with alarms that would automatically lock the doors once the ignition was on. This mostly happened in the driveway but was still a pain. It was also great for warming things up without the risk someone else driving away with my vehicle.
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Once when I locked my keys in my truck. I was stuck in the middle of BFE hunting. I'm talking a pretty remote place. It would have been miles walking distance from the nearest town. It would take someone a long time to find me, if they could.... I do not have AAA. (AAA would have been useless in this situation) And my subscription with Onstar was long gone.
I actually called Onstar and they were nice enough to help me. They unlocked my truck as a courtesy.
I actually called Onstar and they were nice enough to help me. They unlocked my truck as a courtesy.
Funny, i was thinking same, my wifes cousins came up to ny from tx and locked keys in their suburban, i called onstar because my truck still had it and they took the vin of the suburban and unlocked it.
PWMac
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I keep a magnetic box hidden under my truck with a spare in case i get locked out or lose the key.
Where do you live again?
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fozzi58
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I did that with one of my older Firebirds and the magnet box rusted...key fell out.
On all my cars, I hide a magnetic key somewhere. Tougher to do on newer unibody cars, but I find a way. I haven't done it on the new Tahoe as they only gave me 2 of those fancy keyless keys.
Does anyone know if I can take out the metal emergency key part and have a basic key cut out of it? Or is that just impossible? On my wife's last car, I hid the valet key. The new Tahoe didn't even come with one of those.
Does anyone know if I can take out the metal emergency key part and have a basic key cut out of it? Or is that just impossible? On my wife's last car, I hid the valet key. The new Tahoe didn't even come with one of those.
