Spare Key best place to hide it.

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

Looking to find a spot under the Prado to secure a spare key. Any suggestions?

cheers

Jim

[mickmac_42 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mickmac_42]

There are plenty of places to secret an object in, on, or around a Pradopoint. The big challenge is being able to access it without anyone seeing. A hook can be attached to the inside of a bullbar. At the beach the act of placing or retrieving a key from that location can be concealed by hanging your towel over the bar, resting your foot on the bar adjacent the hook, then place the key while you remove your shoes.

You could also look at the spare wheel.

There are magnetic lockable boxes that attach to the underbody of the car? These are often used in drug trafficking but would be a bit obvious and not practical for concealing a key.

I would recommend against under car concealment. Placement can be obvious, especially to a car thief who will often watch a car park and wait for something like this. These days most cars are stolen using keys rather than hotwire.

Mike

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

What about getting a key cut that doesn't have a transponder in it. Then it can be secured to your swimmers - unless you wear budgie smugglers- and just use the keyhole in the door (assuming you're old enough to have experience in using the keyhole in the door & if you're too young to have had that experience I am sure there would be a youtube clip to guide you ... I have had to teach my kids how to use the key to get into my 60's Ford (and the boot and how windows wind by manual exertion).

You would still need the key with the transponder to start it though.

Cheers

[timmay5.7 Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close timmay5.7]

What about getting a key cut that doesn't have a transponder in it. Then it can be secured to your swimmers -

You would still need the key with the transponder to start it though.

Cheers

not sure if that would work with the newer prados, if the transponder is within a range of the car, you can unlock it, start it etc. Doesn't need to be in the ignition.

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

Agree that you couldn't do this in a newer 150 but Pradogang has a 120.

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

Guys

Get a key cut that doesn't have the transponder and wire it to the car when you are at home (Maybe even leave it there all the time)
Then if you lock your keys in the car on purpose or by accident then just use the key that's hidden under the car somewhere.

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

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.

[jayden82 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jayden82]

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.

love your work talk2tiny!
i surf too and been thinking how...
good stuff!!!

[BrettM Member Find all posts View Profile Close BrettM]

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

[yowie Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close yowie]

What I have is a small waterproof bag, with 2 zip locks and a foldover velcro top, similar to a mobile phone sized bag. Purchased from a Kathmandu store. I place the 150 fob inside a zip lock bag, then place that bag into the waterproof bag (which does leak a few drops of water, hence the 2nd zip lock bag inside the main bag).

I slide the rope from the waterproof bag over my head and down, place the waterproof bag into a pocket of my swimmers (with a velcro closure) and tie the bag rope through the ties on my swimmers waist band.

Sounds complicated, but have used it during body surfing for more than 12 months, including rough and tumble surf, and the waterproof bag is still firmly attached to me and still inside my pocket.

Has not failed me (yet) and do not have to leave anything on the sand for thieves to steal.

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

Looking to find a spot under the Prado to secure a spare key. Any suggestions?

cheers

Jim

I am assuming the purpose for this is in case you loose a key or its gets damaged and you need a spare, more than one person with a modern vehicle has been stranded because a key gets damaged!

First of all I would suggest you need to protect it from the elements, cryovacing it is a good idea, I know a few people who have done this, maybe even wrap it in some rag before cryovacing to stop andy rubbing or vibrating.

As far as under the car goes plenty of possible places, taping it to the plastic support arm for the rear flare comes to mind, but given you are going to the Cape next year keeping it a bit higher couldn't hurt. there is a hole in the middle of the spare tyre mount that would lend itself to bolting some sort of small conatiner to the inside of the spare tyre mount ot house a key.

As for this being an open forum and the chances of someone reading this thread, working out who you are and finding where you live and then knocking your car off using the spare key is so slim as to be non exixtant IMO.

Cheers Andrew

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

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

you can also get one that fits into the hitch.
http://www.hitchsafe.com/

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

There is a spot where you can place the key so only the black buttons on the rear door work. I've been using this for 2 years when surfing. Not totally secure but I doubt that the average thief would think/know to press the black button to unlock the back door

[brogers Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close brogers]

What I have is a small waterproof bag, with 2 zip locks and a foldover velcro top, similar to a mobile phone sized bag. Purchased from a Kathmandu store. I place the 150 fob inside a zip lock bag, then place that bag into the waterproof bag (which does leak a few drops of water, hence the 2nd zip lock bag inside the main bag).

I slide the rope from the waterproof bag over my head and down, place the waterproof bag into a pocket of my swimmers (with a velcro closure) and tie the bag rope through the ties on my swimmers waist band.

Sounds complicated, but have used it during body surfing for more than 12 months, including rough and tumble surf, and the waterproof bag is still firmly attached to me and still inside my pocket.

Has not failed me (yet) and do not have to leave anything on the sand for thieves to steal.

You will also be pleased to know that should all of your protective covering layers fail, the key fob itself is fairly water tight. Not that I would do it deliberately, but I have accidentally surfed for 2 hours with the 150 key fob in my boardies, and no problem. The key fob has also gone through the wash and then the dryer and its still working perfectly, amazingly.

I have also tried a different method. I remove the tiny little key out of the key fob, I opne the bonnett and hide the key fob under the bonnett near the front of the car ( in a little key locker) and then close the bonnett, and then use the tiny little key to lock the car, and attach the little key to a lanyard inide my boardies pocket....anwya, it works for me and without having to take the key fob near the water.

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

You will also be pleased to know that should all of your protective covering layers fail, the key fob itself is fairly water tight. Not that I would do it deliberately, but I have accidentally surfed for 2 hours with the 150 key fob in my boardies, and no problem.

I nearly did that the other day. I'm amazed to hear that it survived. My commodore key died in a matter of seconds when I accidentally got it wet.