Where do you keep your car keys

I understand wrapping keyless fobs in aluminium foil has the same effect as a faraday pouch? I keep mine in a drawer well away from the front door and the spare in a safe place which I have to keep a note of as it’s so secret, I forget ?

My DH who is very security conscious brings all the keys upstairs at night and puts them in our bedroom.

Ours are on a hook beside the front door. I prefer them to steal the cars and leave us alone.

My DD had both cars stolen. They had left the car keys on top of a built in meter cupboard in their hall. The police said that the gang that they suspected may well have attacked them with baseball bats if they hadn’t found the keys so easily.

Mine are in whatever handbag am using at the time .....this poses a problem when I go out as I have rows of handbags sitting on a shelf, and it takes mucho rummaging to find keys.

Pantglas2

Yes, LauraNorder, James (my chauffeur) tells me he is most diligent and keeps the keys about his person at all times.

I shall make it my business to ascertain the truth of this assertion later......?

He’s getting bladderd in The Argy .....I shall perform this service for you Pantglas......I like a man in uniform.

In a shopping basket. Our terrier is the house alarm, and very affective. No one will get in without the alarm going off.

Yes I had a ‘real key’ in the fob. It looked a bit like a tooth pick.

Thanks for the reminder about Uncle Bens name change welbeck.
I always change the packet with a new one, every time we have an empty one, otherwise it would become tatty. But we mustn't have eaten much rice recently, as it's still Uncle Ben.

i have no knowl or exp of keyless cars, but i read on MN that there is a real key hidden in the keyless fob.
in case the electrics fail presumably.
can anyone confirm this.
i can't imagine it. must look like a skeleton ?

Buffybee

My garage and drive are at the back of my house, so I leave by the kitchen door. I keep my car fob in an empty packet of Uncle Bens rice in the kitchen cupboard.?

you'll need to change that packet, else it will be a give-away, as uncle has been dropped from the brand name.

Our car is keyless and both keys are kept in Faraday pouches, one in the kitchen and one upstairs. I had read so many accounts of such cars being stolen that I went on line to find suitable containers. It’s now automatic to put the key away when I come in.

In my handbag.

My garage and drive are at the back of my house, so I leave by the kitchen door. I keep my car fob in an empty packet of Uncle Bens rice in the kitchen cupboard.?

We both keep our car keys on the dining room table. I'm hating these stories about break ins, imo it would be better for a thief to make off with a car if asleep upstairs, I'd hate him (I make the presumption it would be a him) to come upstairs whilst we were asleep. No thanks! take the car, can always claim on the insurance. Mine'd be safe anyway it's only a Fiat 500

In a drawer in the kitchen. My previous car was keyless, when I ordered my new one I specified keys, spare wheel and a proper handbrake. All extra £ of course.

Yes, LauraNorder, James (my chauffeur) tells me he is most diligent and keeps the keys about his person at all times.

I shall make it my business to ascertain the truth of this assertion later......?

LauraNorder I nearly wet myself ??

Especially as they are in the fridge as soon as they're buttered

Sorry couldn't resist after the Porsche story, lucky you Missfoodlove

Nobody has ever attempted to take the Rolls

We had a very nasty break in last year. thankfully we were out.

They came for valuables in the house but picked up the key for my husbands car as they were leaving

I was getting calls from Porsche to say the car was being driven without the tracker but because we were at a dinner party I ignored my vibrating phone.

Porsche were able to disable the vehicle remotely but not before they wrote it off and 8 other vehicles in the process.

It was devastating to think so many families had been affected by the actions of these men.

We had good cctv and they were caught as a result.

Keys are now kept downstairs and easily accessible, if someone comes for the car they can have it, I do not want someone coming upstairs to get a key.

We used to have a bowl on the hall chest into which all keys were deposited. We stopped doing that when dh locked himself out so hooked his keys out of the pot with a bamboo cane.

As for taking them to bed - a friend who was a scary head teacher woke up to find a man in her bedroom going through her handbag for her car keys! She sent him off with a flea in his ear.

Attached to the key fob in my rucksack. Very rarely use a hand bag, so can quickly locate the keys.

hanging at the back of a chair int he kitchen.

On a tray on a radiator in the hall. As the hall is a dining hall it is big enough for the radiator to be a long way from the door and as the keys are the far end of the radiator, they would first need to knock the land line and several ornaments on the floor to get at them.