What is this, some kind of contest? Competition? I just don't get it.

If mine has a range of 5 feet, it works. I fail (help me understand) to

get it: what's the advantage of being able to lock/unlock your car from

greater distances?

Within 5 feet (OK, sometimes 10), I can hear the power door locks lock.

People further away can't, but a big part of security is not calling

any excess attention to a valuable target anyway.

As long as I don't have to use my key to lock my car upon exiting (which

Volvos formerly required before RF locking!), the thing is serving its main

purpose as far as I'm concerned. And when it saves me from having to use

the key to unlock the door as I reach for it, mission accomplished once

again.

I suppose, if I were tinged with whatever makes some of you folks want to

try for distance records, I could soup up my xmitter to work from 3000 feet

away (4000' and a burn mark if you use your chin trick). While I'm not

sure how this would benefit me, I do know that it would be to the detriment

of my fellow Volvo owners:

Abe, how many different-code transmitters are there (probably varies by

year) anyway? The problem of one owner inadvertently unlocking another

owner's car is exaccerbated, not solved, by having extended range.

Having infinite range on these suckers would be as counter-productive as

having infinite range on a radar detector.

Congratulations on the 100'. Now tell me how/why you care, and what it's

good for, please. Does it help you like your car more or use it better?

Don't buy a car designed by me -- it'd probably have roughly half that

maximum range (and 4 times the battery life and/or weigh less!). Unless

you can help me to understand how 100' is twice as good as (or even better

than) 50'...

I just don't get it!!!

- Dave; '95 854T, 101K mi