Spare Key best place to hide it.

[kav Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close kav]

yeah i was thinking the best place to hide it would be somewhere that you didn't post on the internet , for all to see , so they can work out where a key might be hidden . lets not share tooooooooo much on this subject eh , just for those of us that are not of middle eastern appearance .

[Auss15 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Auss15]

I kitesurf and use this every time I'm at the beach.
http://www.surflock.com.au/

Yes Ive been using one of these for the last 5 years every time I go surfing.

[fourbyphil Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close fourbyphil]

Not the sort of question I would post on a forum as some low life might take your ride. Best keep it to your self

So if all you blokes could please add your address, number plate, beach you surf at , an expected time you will be there next and any other descriptions that might help identify you and your ride .........

There are a lot of prado's out there!

[pradogang Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close pradogang]

Perhaps all PP members should have their cars keyed alike so if we see one we can just take it for a ride similar to the gas bottle swap and go system. I would like to pick up one in Cairns next August for my Cape trip!!

[trimardito Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close trimardito]

We have been doing this forever (friends and family) Because where we usually travel in our trucks we're pretty far away from home and losing a key or having the alarm go nuts or whatever in the bush can be a bit of an inconvenience.

We never travel alone, and we ALWAYS give a spare key(transponder ones) and alarm remote to another car on the convoy. Everybody has at least two sets of keys (normal + spare on another car). In my family we have the practice of having regular copies of every car's key made (non-transponder) and strapping them somewhere under the car, it is there at all times. That way, if you manage to lock the car with the keys inside you can open it.

So we always travel with three sets of keys when going to the bush, and have a spare on at all times.

A cousin of mine has a JK Wrangler and he has this little magnetic box he keeps a key in, he has it stuck somewhere in the engine bay since he can open it without keys. Thought it was pretty nifty, a lot cleaner than having a key zip-tied to the chassis...

[chester ver 2.0 Member Find all posts View Profile Close chester ver 2.0]

2 ways we do it
We have a 120 series and toyota actually gave us a key with no electronic it will open the doors star the car and also open the glove box so i take that swimming

Another way i used to do it with electronic key only was lock vehicle and hide keys in gooseneck of Haymen Resse towbar and then i had one of those locable pins and i used to take the key to that in the water

[krypto Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close krypto]

A mate never needed to lock his car, he left everything open but he had a dog that I wouldn't have wanted to mess with

[fourbyphil Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close fourbyphil]

Perhaps all PP members should have their cars keyed alike so if we see one we can just take it for a ride similar to the gas bottle swap and go system. I would like to pick up one in Cairns next August for my Cape trip!!

I bet you'll be swapping again soon after your return, for a much cleaner one!

[rhs58 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close rhs58]

In the movie Papillon, Steve McQueen had a very special hiding place...

[ntp Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close ntp]

One time, at band camp...

[Bushbasher Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Bushbasher]

Never mind hiding the spare key, you're more likely to have your Prado stolen by some thieving bastard that will come into your house and get the keys off the kitchen bench where you always leave them in full view. That's how most cars are taken these days.

[Auss15 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Auss15]

In the old days before remote's on keys I would put a spare one behind mu number plate screw incase I lost it or locked myself out. It was quite easy to find a philips head screw driver

[talk2tiny Moderated member Find all posts View Profile Close talk2tiny]

Seems to be easy in the 150. I tested it on mine. You can leave the fob in the centre console and then lock it with the removable key. It seems to know the fob's inside rather than out so you can't open the doors. That's without shielding it. Then you can attach the removable key to your swimmers.

[fourbyphil Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close fourbyphil]

Never mind hiding the spare key, you're more likely to have your Prado stolen by some thieving bastard that will come into your house and get the keys off the kitchen bench where you always leave them in full view. That's how most cars are taken these days.

We had his happen to us few years ago, house got broken into, noticed the wifes key were missing, 2 days later they came back and took the car. insurance company was very suspicious as the car was fitted with immobiliser, they did pay eventually though

[mu410 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close mu410]

I've been considering this too so I can lock it at the beach. The best idea I've been able to come up with for the 150's is to get a shielded bag of some description. I know the toll tags come in shielded bags so their transponders won't activate if the courier goes through a toll so I imagine something similar would work for the key. Leave the transponder bit in a shielded bag inside the car and use the removable key to lock it and attach that to your swimmers. I haven't tried it but the theory should work. I might try it with some al foil on the weekend.

Double layer of aluminium foil blocks the wireless from the key fob. Then can lock and unlock with emergnecy key in fob and leave fob inside the car. Emergency key goes with me in wettie. Only down side is there will be no alarm, but the car is still locked.