If you are a regular viewer of You Tube or any other video sharing site you have probably seen the videos that claim you can open your door using something as simple as a mobile phone or an even simpler tennis ball. With the top Melbourne Locksmiths, let us explore those myths, okay.
First of those myths is the cellular phone opening the door myth. In the video, you would find that they attempt to open a car using an electronic locking system. What the video is trying to show is that If you click on the door unlock button miles a way from the car and point it to a mobile phone that is calling another phone whose speaker is pointed towards the car, the door would open.
The theory behind this is that the radio signal being sent from the car remote will go through the phone and reach the other phone which will then send the signal through its speakers to the car. Upon initial assessment this may seem like a valid point since the phones can send radio signal through their network. However, this myth is nothing more than just another myth coursed through the web.
Although, radio signals or sound waves can indeed travel through the cellular network, mobile phones are not necessarily able to deliver all frequency. Modern cellular phones want to remove as much noise as possible and as such only allow frequency within the Human realms of speech. Auto car locks make use of frequency that is too high for the human ear much like a dog whistle.
The next myth that you would see in this viral videos and perhaps one of the more popular ones is the myth about a regular tennis ball being able to open a car door lock. In the video, a small hole is punched through one side of the tennis ball. Then, the lady in the video pushes the ball into key hole with the hole in the tennis ball pointing to the door lock. After one or two pushed the door is magically unlocked.
According to a top mobile locksmith, the theory is that the tennis ball would produce enough air pressure to open the door by pushing up the pins in the lock. However, there are some problems that would contradict these theories. For one thing, the air pressure in the tennis ball would not be strong enough to push the pins because they are pushed down by a strong spring.
The next thing that prevents the tennis ball from opening the door lock with air pressure is that it does not provide the strong air pressure long enough to push the pins of the door lock open all at the same time. In this case, the air merely moves in one direction quickly and the pins will fall back down without them engaging at the same time.
Lastly, the inside of a door lock is not pressurized. When air is pushed into the door lock it will just quickly dissipate within the car door without opening the door lock.
If your car door is locked, the best thing to do is to get your spare key or call a Melbourne locksmith. These so called easy solutions sound too good to be true because they are too good to be true. The best way is to call a professional and watch the real problem solver open your car in just a few minutes.