Go get in your car, start it up & take the key back in doors, go back out, get in the car & drive away ! !

It's just happened to me.....salesman has just driven off in a prospective purchase and I had the fob in my pocket. 08 2.7 RRS "S"
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True it does this, but once you stop the engine you cannot restart it.

It is a poor system though. It can clearly detect when the key is out of range so LR could easily have programmed some sort of safety feature in to it to either cut the engine immediately or perhaps after
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Completely agree.............bit lazy of them

You could jump in your car, start the engine, nip back in the house, put your key down, drive 100 miles then turn off engine and oops...........wheres my key?

Jonny Fresh wrote:

You could jump in your car, start the engine, nip back in the house, put your key down, drive 100 miles then turn off engine and oops...........wheres my key?

I'm willing to bet that exactly this has happened to someone...... now, whether they'd admit it is another thing!  2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
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you do get a warning message on the dash pretty quickly if the key is not in range ============
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It has ..... to me......... Got the XF out of the drive and up the lane for the now ex, I had the key in my pocket, peck on cheek, see ya later and off she went..
On the Jag it comes up with smart key not found or something similar, she noticed that but did bog all about it. 08 2.7 RRS "S"
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It was in the news recently,guy went to the airport,jumped out,wife got in and drove off,he got on his flight,she stopped on way home and no key !!!! MY2011 HSE Santorini/Ivory/Piano Black/Privacy Glass/TV .Sadly gone.
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Apparrently it happens regularly at dealerships when people are taking their new cars away - I had to sign a document at LPR stating that I was taking away both fobs! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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The one reason is doesnt cut out is safety, imagine, you jump out of the car and your wife drives off - she is just pulling onto the busy main road when "No key - Engine Deactivated" message appears and the car is now isolated in the middle of the road.

I agree an anti drive off feature would have been good eg - it can run but not driven Mike

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Keyless access on my BMW did exactly this. Fabulous in winter, start car, heated seats, demisters etc on. Lock car go back in house for a quick coffee

zaytar wrote:

Keyless access on my BMW did exactly this. Fabulous in winter, start car, heated seats, demisters etc on. Lock car go back in house for a quick coffee

I just go to the lounge window and aim the remote control and active the Park Heat............ 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Tim in Scotland wrote:

I just go to the lounge window and aim the remote control and active the Park Heat............

I borrowed my mums Renault a few years ago as I needed a hatchback to pick something up and I did the same thing. For some reason my dad started the car to move it on the drive, then left me to drive it away. I got all the way to Comet, stopped the engine, then realised I didn't have the key to lock the car or to start the car to drive back. WINNER - 2009 ‘Just Doing What It’s Designed To Do’ Award

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