[JLR1969]

Whenever I go into a shop through the security barriers my keyfob sets off the alarms that are intended to detect shoplifters.

This happens everytime at my local Tesco and I keep getting stopped and searched, would be OK if good looking females did the searching.

Who else does this happen to?

[willhollin]

Originally Posted by JLR1969

Whenever I go into a shop through the security barriers my keyfob sets off the alarms that are intended to detect shoplifters.

This happens everytime at my local Tesco and I keep getting stopped and searched, would be OK if good looking females did the searching.

Who else does this happen to?

Perhaps it's the stuff you are stealing that is causing the alarm as mine doesn't go off.

[xenon]

I bet it's your keyring and not your BMW key. Walk through with just the key and it won't trigger it.

These detectors work by detecting a resonant frequency of an inductor (loop of metal) which is stuck under the security sticker. By coincidence, the resonant frequency of your collection of keys is at or around the same frequency - but I don't think it's your fob per se otherwise it would be more common.

[JLR1969]

I will remove the keyfob from the keys when I next go on the rob

[Looney Toon]

Originally Posted by JLR1969

I will remove the keyfob from the keys when I next go on the rob

Glad we got that sorted.

When you shop at Tesco's do you walk your trolley up and down until you come to the till of a vaguely fit female cashier? I've started doing this recently, regardless of the queue, and i'm just concerned i'm hitting some sort of mid-life crisis

[biscuits]

Do you have COMFORT ACCESS? If you do, your key looks the same as the other BMW keyfobs, but it transmitts the code regularly (so when you walk up to the car it unlocks).

Maybe this is setting it off... and us commoners who have to press the button don't have the same issue?

The keyfobs use 868MHz... not sure what frequency the security systems use ?

[JLR1969]

Comfort access, I wish

I have the poverty version, push the button and open the door.

[willhollin]

Originally Posted by biscuits

The keyfobs use 868MHz... not sure what frequency the security systems use ?

I think it's 869MHz.

[JLR1969]

Originally Posted by Looney Toon

Glad we got that sorted.

When you shop at Tesco's do you walk your trolley up and down until you come to the till of a vaguely fit female cashier? I've started doing this recently, regardless of the queue, and i'm just concerned i'm hitting some sort of mid-life crisis

Shopping in Tesco High Wycombe you learn that there are no fit female cashiers. Waitrose in Maidenhead now thats a different matter or John Lewis anywhere

Christ I am now sounding like a shopping perv on the hunt for young women.

[biscuits]

Originally Posted by JLR1969

Comfort access, I wish

I have the poverty version, push the button and open the door.

In which case, empty your pockets into the shopping basket and go to the checkout like everyone else

Originally Posted by willhollin

I think it's 869MHz.

Mine says 868MHz (keyfob) or were you refering to the security system Will ?

[E92Fan]

Originally Posted by biscuits

Mine says 868MHz (keyfob) or were you refering to the security system Will ?

Nooooooooooo...... u fell for it....

[JLR1969]

Originally Posted by biscuits

In which case, empty your pockets into the shopping basket and go to the checkout like everyone else

Might compromise and go to self scan, kind of easy myself gently into paying for everything.

Once bought a Crispy Creme and could not find the barcode so scanned it in as a Tesco own doughnut at 12p. Nearly sh*t myself when the alarms went off.

Had to eat the evidence quickly

[PeteJ]

Originally Posted by JLR1969

Might compromise and go to self scan, kind of easy myself gently into paying for everything.

Once bought a Crispy Creme and could not find the barcode so scanned it in as a Tesco own doughnut at 12p. Nearly sh*t myself when the alarms went off.

Had to eat the evidence quickly

You've found an honestly FOB!!