Have you tried it? Last person that laughed at the idea, bought me beers for the night.

Go out to a lot, determine when the remote stops working, take a few steps more away and then try it.

 

I wasn't challenging you as to whether or not this worked. It just sounded so "off-beat", I had to throw in my own rendition.
Like I said, I have no range problems with my remote. No need to open my mouth or my fly.

 

I have the same problem with my MY05. Max 15 feet for the doors and 2 feet for the trunk.

 

This may sound funny but if you want to improve the distance place the remote under your chin and press the button. I have been doing this for years.

 

[QUOTE=Matt The Bagel,Aug 3 2005, 05:41 AM] This may sound funny but if you want to improve the distance place the remote under your chin and press the button.

 

As funny as the "under the chin" or "to your throat" methods appear, there's a reason they often work (and sometimes don't).

If you were to press the buttons on your remote using a 10' pole (why not, there must be a lot of 10' poles sitting around since no one will touch "this" or "that" with a 10' pole)... anyway, if you were to do that, the range on your remote would be quite low (on average). The reason is tied to how the remote is manufactured.

Human bodies have a nasty habit of detuning antennas. Engineers know this, so they design the antenna already out of tune... when you bring your hand near it, it brings the antenna back into tune. There's a surprisingly large rage of tuning the antenna can go through, so if one antenna is particularly out of tune, adding more body mass near it (such as holding it to your head) will bring it back into play and give you greater range. If the remote is already optimally tuned, you'll actually decrease the range by holding it to your head.

Not to mention look like a dumbass in public

Didn't I write about this in an earlier thread?

 

I've done the chin thing for years, and it does work. I was a bartender and could unlock my car from behind the bar.

 

Before the antenna got relocated under the seat from the Alarm, I had exactly the same reception, TERRIBLE!

Plus I tested it with all 4 remotes, the 2 originals and 2 from the alarm and they were all the same, so it is very unlikely to be a battery issue, since all of the batteries could not be bad in brand new remotes...

So maybe it is a MY difference, seems the '05 has something obstructing the range...

SH

 

Maybe it is a Rio issue. My range sucks compared to before the alarm was installed.

 

It is screwy, but I shoot it off my forehead for greater distance... My son told me about it and I laughed at him, but it worked!