So, I just got a new 2016 fit, it's great, it replaced my 08 Yaris. I liked that car too but just needed more room.

On that old style car, I used a magnetic box, stuck a regular $5 key in it and always had a way into my car in case I lost my pants in a crazy stunt.

So, does anyone have a way to stick a key under the car in this new fangled machine? I am willing to buy a spare smart key if there is a good way to spare it under the car.

 

I shouldn't even ask how you "lost my pants in a crazy stunt".


But I have to know. Did her husband come home early, so you had to jump out the window?

 

If you put the key in a magnetic box I wonder if the car will detect the near presence of the key and not allow the car doors to lock, unlock automatically, or other odd things. You will also make it really easy for thieves to steal your car.

I would not recommend this.

 

Er...this sounds like a terrible idea.

 

You could always wrap it carefully in a foil fedora.

 

You can probably get just the key portion cut and not the smart fob programmed. Can get into the vehicle, but not start it.

 

My wife has had a spare key when we have gotten out of the car and it didn't prevent me from using my remote to lock the doors or unlock them or anything else odd.

If you're talking about thieves perhaps finding the key, there is that possibility unless it is really stuck somewhere inconvenient. I asked a key question recently and was told as far as a key chip activating the ignition it has to be fairly close, and that is also only a risk in models with push button ignition. In our LX if somebody is in the car then they have to have a key to start it.

I would think the Fit is just too low to the ground for somebody to find an imaginative place to hide a modern key and of course any recommendations for place you would find on the Internet would also easily be known the thieves.

 

There are many creative spots. Under the front or rear lips leap to mind. You could also go deeper under the rear of the car to require a bit of crawling to get at the key. This should deter most from searching it out.

 

Have you checked the price of a spare key?

 

Not yet, $500?
Have you considered the price and hassle of loosing your key if you are in BFE in Easter Sunday?

Worth the price of a new $500 smart key to me. I prefer being prepared.

 

Agreed. Years ago while sitting in a car in a shopping center parking lot, I spied a fellow walking around the lot, feeling under fenders and frames and obviously looking for hidden keys.

 

I hope you called the police. This is illegal, just like going through a parking lot looking for unlocked doors, or a woman walking a neighborhood grabbing front doors looking for an unlocked one.

I am pretty sure, given they low profile of the fit, and the extreme obesity and laziness of Americans, a key in hidden under the car will go completely unnoticed.

 

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This method is not secure, though you are quite right that you could find some cubby hole in the bottom of the Fit.

 

Every car I own has a key hidden under it somewhere. I take a medicine bottle and put the key inside of it which makes the storage container now waterproof. Then I wire the bottle to a convenient place underneath with 12 ga. solid insulated house wire.

I have never lost one and just today I locked my keys inside my PU truck. So I used the bottle to get inside again.

 

I agree with this.
In this day and age, the convenience of having a spare key attached to your vehicle isn't worth the risk of giving thieves a potentially easy access to your vehicle.

Even if it's just a mechanical key, I wouldn't want it attached to the vehicle.

Too much like leaving a home key in an envelope taped to your front door.

 

Well. This is all real interesting. I wasn't asking for opinions on keeping a spare key on the car. I wa asking if anyone has an idea of how to do it. But this is the internet.

For anyone who is not drinking the kool-aid and isn't scared of everything, I figure I'll put the mechanical key in a magnetic box under the car,(like I have for years) and then pop the battery out of the fob and hide that in the car. Haven't tried it yet to see if it will work, but I don't see why not.

And I need to tape that spare house key to my front door, thanks for the reminder.

 

I just like to minimize unnecessary risk.

Seems to me keeping EVERYTHING, except a readily available battery, either attached or hidden on the same vehicle, that is needed to drive it away, is a bad idea.

I'm not that scared of losing my fob.

 

But don't you see the hipocrisy in not being "scared" about loosing your key fob, but the fear of someone crawling under your car and finding the hidden key, then going into your vehicle and finding the hidden fob, inserting the battery and then driving off w your car makes you feel the need to go onto a forum and tell others.

Whew, I don't get it, one of these scenarios is covered by insurance.

 

I have no fear of anyone crawling under my vehicle and finding a hidden key, because I ain't gonna put one under my vehicle.

Hey, to each their own.

I do think the risk associated with hiding a key, very, very minimal.- But not non-existent.

You want to do it? Obviously nothing I say is going to convince you it's not a stellar idea.

This thread would demonstrate that there are people that Do this, and people that think it's unneeded and a bad idea.

I'm not "telling" anything that hasn't already been said, by others besides myself.

Good Luck with your magnetic box, and putting a fob-minus a battery in your car.

I hope it's something you never have to use, and that doing this does NOT back-fire on you.

Odds are pretty good, the magnetic box does nothing but rust.

 

My car came with two fobs. If we're local, one says at home. If not, we carry the other separately. Is this so hard?