Faraday Pouch recommendations?

[Rob********]

Please could you provide any recommendations on a small faraday pouch (one for a single key only, rather than one that suits a phone too). There seems soooo many out there! Thank you.

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[BigBob]

A cleaner option may be to just deactivate keyless entry. You don't need to keep your key in a pouch then. Eitherway you'll have to get your key out to open the door?

 

[mutanthands]

Please could you provide any recommendations on a small faraday pouch (one for a single key only, rather than one that suits a phone too). There seems soooo many out there! Thank you.

I just have a couple of these;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Faraday-Signal-Blocking-Keyless/dp/B082VDTZ5P/

 

[mutanthands]

A cleaner option may be to just deactivate keyless entry. You don't need to keep your key in a pouch then. Eitherway you'll have to get your key out to open the door?

Why not both? The outlay is so minimal, hardly an inconvenience, and better safe than sorry.
Whenever I come home, I just place the key in the pouch and put it in its usual place out of sight.

 

[BigBob]

Why not both? The outlay is so minimal, hardly an inconvenience, and better safe than sorry.
Whenever I come home, I just place the key in the pouch and put it in its usual place out of sight.

Yes. Certainly worth having some sort of box at home.

 

[Leverage]

I just have a couple of these;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Small-Faraday-Signal-Blocking-Keyless/dp/B082VDTZ5P/

I have the same. Works perfectly

 

[Rob********]

Thanks very much. I think i will disable comfort access (only got the option as it came bundled with something else) and get a couple of those pouches.

If comfort access it disabled, do the keys emit any form of signal or is it only when a button is pressed that they emit a signal?

 

[Pierre C]

You don’t really need a Faraday pouch. A small metal box with a metal lid, like you sometimes see for throat losanges will work just as well. The metal box must close completely. It’s much cheaper even if you throw the contents out. Not sure? Your Taycan’s doors should unlock when you walk close to it with your keys in your hand. They will not if the keys are in the closed box.

 

[Fish Fingers]

Thanks very much. I think i will disable comfort access (only got the option as it came bundled with something else) and get a couple of those pouches.

Wise move.

This was in today's papers along with the latest data for the most stolen cars.

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-11749833/The-10-stolen-cars-2022-REVEALED.html

 

[BigBob]

Thanks very much. I think i will disable comfort access (only got the option as it came bundled with something else) and get a couple of those pouches.

If comfort access it disabled, do the keys emit any form of signal or is it only when a button is pressed that they emit a signal?

I guess it must emit something as it is still keyless start. Moreover, when you disable it (I think) it is deactivating something in the car rather than the key fob. So more about the receiver than the transmitter (key).

The tech is clearly in every car though. The only FOD offered to me is comfort access, which i didn't spec as worried about relay theft. Sales guy said he'd had quite a few customers who'd had stuff nicked out of their car boots (rather than cars stolen). Not sure it was Taycan or porsche specific, though i'd imagine they use the same system across their range.

 

[ardevd]

Why not just turn off the key whenever you don’t want comfort access? Easy to do with holding down two of the buttons on the key fob.

 

[tchavei]

Why not just turn off the key whenever you don’t want comfort access? Easy to do with holding down two of the buttons on the key fob.

Won't the led be on all the time making the battery depleat faster?

 

[ardevd]

Won't the led be on all the time making the battery depleat faster?

How can the battery drain faster when the key is turned off? Literally the opposite is true.

 

[tchavei]

How can the battery drain faster when the key is turned off? Literally the opposite is true.

I was under the impression that when you press and hold both buttons on the fob, the led will turn on and stay on as long as the fob is "disabled"

 

[ardevd]

I was under the impression that when you press and hold both buttons on the fob, the led will turn on and stay on as long as the fob is "disabled"

Not sure where you got that from. Definitely not the case

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