Does anyone else's key open other MGs?

[MartinKS]

Leaving the park Saturday with the family, I noticed that whenever I clicked my keyfob for our MG, the horn on another in the car park would go off too. I was pressing the lock button, and the other car was already locked. Didn't want to get accused of anything, so didn't try the unlock button.

Anyone else found similar?

 

[paulm]

There is a reported Tesla incident when a guy got in the wrong car and drove off!

Fun idea: Try to unlock someone else's Tesla

Bring back keys! Bring back keys!

www.theregister.com

 

[MartinKS]

Our cars were similar, but not enough to be mistaken for one another. Doubt it would work, but I'm a bit glad it's not happening to everyone!

 

[Jomarkh]

Did you get any details from the second car so you can ask MG to look into this further?

 

[MartinKS]

Not in any meaningful sense. I have their registration number, but I doubt the local dealer would even care - they had no idea about software updates for charging or anything like that when I last spoke to them, they just follow the instructions sent in emails by head office.

 

[tsedge]

This an issue that has happened with other makes too from time to time, if you google you'll find reports.

 

[MartinKS]

Fair enough, guess there's only a limited number of encryption keys for the signal to use.

 

[pollenface]

Back in the day Ford Falcons (in Australia) only had 4 different keys.

 

[BananaDuck]

Fair enough, guess there's only a limited number of encryption keys for the signal to use.

Lol