Valet Mode: Weakness Exposed

[FrunkMonk-e]

You could put the key in the bag you always take on the plane. So you only need to take it out when leaving your car at the airport. And you can still use PaaK.

This seems like a very good work-around. Thanks!

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[FrunkMonk-e]

Update

When I picked up my car earlier this evening, it was exactly where I left it surrounded by orange cones. The valet said they got a lot of questions about it. People would ask if the driver left with the key and they explained the whole passcode thing. This probably was not the best pub for the Mach-E, but I suppose that’s Ford’s problem.

From now on, I’ll either keep a Fob in my travel backpack or wait and watch while the valet starts the car with the valet code while my Bluetooth is off.

 

[kennethjk]

Update

When I picked up my car earlier this evening, it was exactly where I left it surrounded by orange cones. The valet said they got a lot of questions about it. People would ask if the driver left with the key and they explained the whole passcode thing. This probably was not the best pub for the Mach-E, but I suppose that’s Ford’s problem.

From now on, I’ll either keep a Fob in my travel backpack or wait and watch while the valet starts the car with the valet code while my Bluetooth is off.

Didn’t someone say all “PR” is good “PR”

guess they are wrong.

glad you got your car back. Did you start the car with your phone? And it worked right away? I hope so.

i have been using PAAK and mostly works. Still seems easier to carry the key even with an extra bulge In the pocket. One more thing to worry about, PAAK and HVBJB , which will fail first.

enjoy the car, it is a lot of fun

 

[FrunkMonk-e]

Didn’t someone say all “PR” is good “PR”

guess they are wrong.

glad you got your car back. Did you start the car with your phone? And it worked right away? I hope so.

i have been using PAAK and mostly works. Still seems easier to carry the key even with an extra bulge In the pocket. One more thing to worry about, PAAK and HVBJB , which will fail first.

enjoy the car, it is a lot of fun

Yes, the Phone as a Key worked normally. And and I have also found that it works most of the time - but not always.

 

[RedStallion]

Dang, that sucks.

When I was newly married I lived in NYC and had a reverse commute to the middle of New Jersey. There was no practical way to use public transit, so I bought the cheapest new car I could - a POS Sentra. It was delivered with only one key (the dealership couldn't find the second key).

Rather than park on the street, I got a monthly pass and parked the car at a tiny garage near where we lived. It was valet parking only since the cars were crammed in. One evening I dropped off my car in the single lane driveway tunnel down into the basement garage, shut the door, and said over my shoulder, "The key's in the car." and started to walk away. A valet says, "Where's the key?" "I just told you, in the car." I replied.

"The car's locked."

I asked if they had a slim jim. They said they didn't and would need to break a window. I told them NFW and we needed to figure out something else. They said go to my apartment and get the spare, but yeah, I had no spare. So I looked and there was just enough room to the side of the car to fit it up against the wall and leave enough space for other cars to pass. But of course this meant moving a locked car sideways. I told them my plan, and they asked me, "Who're we gonna do that?" I said, "we'll lift the car." There were a bunch of us, including one guy that was like 6'5" and maybe 260 pounds of muscle. Moving the back of the car was trivial, but moving the front was a bit more work because engine, and it was facing downhill. Anyway, we got it done in a couple minutes and I told them I'd get the spare key at the dealership and return asap.

That evening my wife and I head out to Brooklyn on the subway go to the dealership and get the spare key they had miraculously found when I called to bitch at them. We got the key but it was too late to get back to the garage before they closed. So the next morning I head over the the garage first thing in the morning to give them the key and get my car. The car was sitting there, unlocked.

They had a slim jim.

Ah, NYC parking stories. Brings back memories from the time I lived there. I used to park my car at the same underground garage near the Queensboro bridge, which was conveniently just a few minutes from my work. But something was peculiar about that place. All people who worked there were kinda leprechaun size and for some reason I always got my car with windows open.
One day I found out why. When I got a car it had a dirty footprint on the steering wheel. I went to complain around the corner where they were parking the cars. I saw a lot of cars parked tightly to each other with no space to open a door. And those guys entering and leaving the cars via the open windows. ?

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