Gone are when you couldn't start your car's engine without a physical key. Modern vehicles today come with key fobs that are more useful than just starting your car and locking and unlocking its doors ...

Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. The days of replacing a car key by having an ...

Imagine opening up your Christmas gifts and finding a new Mercedes-Benz keyfob, only to discover it’s a craftily disguised 2GB flash drive – without a txt instruction file to find a Benz in your ...

The days of replacing a car key by having an inexpensive blank copied and cut at a hardware store are pretty much over. Most new cars today come either with a push-button start system or keyless entry ...

My mom recently lost the spare set of keys for her 2006 Subaru. The dealer wanted more than $300 to replace the key fob and make a new key. That seemed outrageous, so we started digging into DIY ...

Key fobs are a generally pretty mundane and overlooked piece of automotive paraphernalia. A few decades ago, drivers didn't have a way to remotely unlock their cars, and now it's taken for granted.

This is the 'creepy' moment a car thief was able to steal a mother's keyless Mercedes by using a metal loop to boost the fob's signal - as criminal gangs use cunning methods to bypass high-end ...