Car Shenanigans With TheGifMan #2: Keyless Cars

So today I am going to talk about why keyless cars are completely unnecessary. Keyless ignition systems might seem useful and innovative, but they’re not. They can really come back around and bite you in they butt if they breakdown or break.

TheGifMan

12 Feb 2016

What’s wrong with a key? When did a key go out of style, or obsolete? Why do we need a push to start button and a key fob to start our cars?

This might seem like a good idea to you at first but if the ignition system breaks down, your screwed. According to Scotty Kilmer’s video on “Why Keyless Cars Are Stupid” (btw Scotty Kilmer has been a mechanic for like 50 years so I think he knows what he’s talking about.) he had a customer come in with his Infiniti in with a broken keyless ignition system and it ended up costing $1500 dollars to fix it. That’s a lot of car parts you can buy with that money! But when the key wore out on Mr. Kilmer’s Celica, he replaced it for 2 bucks at his local hardware store. He also had a customer with a Toyota who needed another keyless remote made for the car, and it ended up costing him $550 dollars at the dealership.

This is what you can save if you have a key, not a keyless car

But you might argue that cars with keyless cars are harder to steal. Well, some cars have immobilizer keys, according to Wikipedia, an immobilizer key prevents the car from being hotwired. It prevents the engine from running unless the correct key is in the car. So cars without keyless ignition systems aren’t very easy to steal either.

The last reason pretty much proves that keyless ignition systems are unnecessary. When the battery dies in a car with a keyless ignition system you won’t be able to get in your car, so what do they hide in the keyless fob? AN ACTUALLY KEY! So what’s the point? (You can see what I’m talking about at 2:50 in the video below)