What's is the deal with the garage door opener on the rear view mirror being able to work with the car off and the smart key nowhere around? They should atleast have it disabled untill the smart key is inside the car. If you parked outside of your garage someone could just breakinto your car and them help themselves into the house. I guess you should only use this feature if you park inside the garage. Another word of advice that my sales person gave me when I bought the car. Only do one of two things, not both. Either program the garage door open in and DONT store your home address in the navigation or if you do program your home address intothe navigation DONT program in your garage door opener! Can you imagine a thief stealing your car from wallmart and using the navigation to get perfect directions to your house and then just opening the garage when they get there...

 

Agreed. It's a great feature, but I won't use it. Ideally if they had the garage door disabled unless the car was either on, or like you said the proximity key was within range for ignition, that would work a whole lot better for me. I park outside for half the year while my drums are setup. So not only do I not have the option programmed, I never keep the remote in my car if I'm outside. Sometimes I slip in on the other side if my wife isn't using it, so those rare occasions I put the remote in the car. It's easy to get to inside the garage, so it's not that inconvenient, and always comes out as soon as I start parking outside again.

 

lol, most folks leave their garage door opener in their cars anyway, so it's NOT just a Max security issue.

Those of us with home alarms, I'd suspect most folks don't have sensors on the garage door. Most alarm companies won't do it by default, tho I had them installed on mine.

 

Is it possible to get the screen to come on without the smart key in the car?

I don't have this gen, so I'm just asking.

 

Or the thief could be a thoughtful one, steal your call from walmart as you stated and then bring it back and park it in the garage for you. Unless you want it left out on the street in which case he would leave it anywhere in the street, maybe a few towns over or something.

 

The Smurf is on target here.

And most of us keep our registration and proof of insurance in the car as well so, while I am sure your salesperson meant well, I don't think he thought it through. Go ahead and program your GPS, I would only think you'd want to remove it (and your garage door opener and insurance card/registration) when you sell your ride.

 

Doesn't this whole topic boil down to being a discussion of a hidden cost of having added convenience?


Usually, but definitely not always.

It's a separate offense punishable by fine in NJ if you cannot produce that documentation,
making it a risk of fine (if you don't keep it there) vs risk of telling the bad guys where you live (if you do) sort of thing at least for some of us.

FWIW, when staying at hotels or parked for extended lengths of time where the perceived risk of having the car broken into is higher, I will always remove the registration and insurance cards and carry them on my person.


Having had my house broken into while we were all asleep in it has meant that I have never even considered adding a garage door opener, not even when we could still fit a car in the garage. The garage door gets "deadbolted" in a fashion that isn't readily compatible with an opener anyway.


Norm

 

I don't think I am following this. How in the heck can someone steal your car if you are in the store with the FOB? Please let me know if there is a way because I thought without the FOB code you would have to winch it onto a flatbed and drive it off. Am I wrong?

 

Your avg run of the mill thief probably couldn't hotwire it, but I guarantee there's someone who can.....

But the real point was, what if it's sitting in your driveway. Thief smashes window, loots items in car, presses garage door button, starts swiping stuff from house.

 

Lets not overreact, car thief's are looking for easy targets, and your average car thief is not about to steal a 7th Gen Maxima, their are exceptions but lock your car, keep items like garage door opens out of sight, and especially ipods, removable nav units, cell phones, anything that can be sold for an easy 50 bucks.

Just take the extra steps, certain things may be an inconvenience to you but the petty thieves will skip right over you and move on

 

Lock the inside garage door and treat it like your home's front door -- have the door and frame replaced if its crappy/easy to kick down -- if you're worried about being locked out someday then hide a key somewhere in the garage

Google for garage security: http://www.surveillanceforsecurity.c...-security.html

 

Exactly what we have. The door between our garage and side entryway is very thick oak with a long-throw double-keyed deadbolt and reinforced jamb. We made this change after a 1992 burglary in which this door was smashed (actually broken into pieces), and everything (including the entire contents of all six closets) was taken.

We also added an alarm system which includes 13 glass/woodbreak detectors; one in each room with an outside window, plus one in the garage, one in the attic, one in the crawlspace and one in the tool room. Motion detectors, two hidden backup power supplies (in case of power failure), a hidden computer-triggered backup cell phone and a hidden backup high-powered radio transmitter (in case the phone is out), and hidden cameras make our home reasonably safe from burglars.

But should someone smash through a window and come in firing, it would be our guns against theirs, and we could be dead long before the police get here. Organizing a neighborhood watch can help in areas where homes are within view of each other. But those of us living on larger pieces of property in sort of a rural area are pretty much on our own. It is a tough and scary world out there, but all we can do is prepare accordingly, and watchfully carry on with our lives.

 

And for those of you who haven't seen Lightonthehill's fortress...

 

Hrmm, never thought about why most garages nowadays are detached from the house, now I know!!

 

You WOULD take the photo the very day our four killer pit bulls were at the vet for rabies shots and our six cannons were at the armory for recalibration. Our two F22s are in a hangar just out of view to the left of the fortress; we park our Maxima between the F22s.

More seriously, anyone moving to the Atlanta metro area should be aware that there are two kinds of homes without burglar alarms: those that HAVE been burglarized, and those that WILL be burglarized. Another problem is that thieves around Atlanta have destroyed thousands of air conditioners in order to steal the copper tubing for a few bucks at the recycling yards.

Of more interest on the ORG, DO NOT use the emergency lanes in the Atlanta metro area, especially those next to the median wall. Most of the huge 400 pound drainage grates along Atlanta area interstates have been stolen and sold to scrap yards for a few bucks each. Cars using the emergency lanes are having their front undercarriage ripped out from underneath when they fall into these open drainage holes.

 

What's the deal Light? No moat with required draw bridge? Here I thought you were serious about security

 

The moat is there, it's further out. you can tell by the bridge behind the house. Oh, I hear it's full of unfed piranha and Florida Gators too....

 

Hey light, how come you invisible cloaking shield wasn't engaged at the time that picture was taken???

 

Thanks alot Boone! I spewed Diet Coke all over my monitor - and now I have to clean it!!

 

I'm always glad to provide a chuckle.

 

Sorry I am slow in responding. I was out playing with my Maxima on the curviest road in this area. This car handles so well, I just love driving it.

Upon arriving home, two of my moat alligators had overfilled on a few intruders that had fallen in, and were coughing up femurs, so I had to toss them into my roomy Maxima trunk and visit the vet. On the way home, I let the gators sit in the back seat. They said they had never eaten leather as soft as that premium Maxima leather. They stuck their snouts out the window just as our dogs do when in the car.

We passed a new TL, and as soon as the TL driver glanced over at this beautiful Maxima, he was overcome with its radiant beauty. His eyes grew wide, his jaw dropped, and he went straight into the next power pole. His front grille looks much better now. I let the gators (their names are ChewaG37 and CrunchaTL) out at their front door (the drawbridge), so they wouldn't have to crawl so far to get home. Now they are safe at home again, hoping someone will drop in.

Life is good.

 

too funny