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Hey you tow guys here, how do you guys tow these new cars with the keyless push button start when they are locked down? Can't turn the wheel or put it in neutral? You just drag it on and off the truck?
If I've tried other methods to no avail, and the wheels are cut hard left or right and I need it up on a rollback, first I find the park interlock override. Most foreign cars and Jeep Commanders have them. Some cars like Chargers and Challengers you have to pull the shifter bezel cover, and have a hook pick. Use the pick with a hook on it to reach down in there and pull on the Yellow or Pink spring loaded plastic bypass lever. And you have to be gentle with it or you'll break the plastic override, then you're fuct and it can't be overridden.
Some cars have a location where you touch the intelli key fob to a certain spot in the vehicle and look for a signal that it communicated with the FOB. Some will make a chime sound. Some will flash a security lignt on the dash, some will chirp the horm. Some you must do this spot and be flat ass laying on the brake pedal as hard as you can trying to push the pedal thru the floorboard. Somehow the master cylinder is detecting the amount of pressure you're applying to the pedal. Some FOB's like on Land Rover, you hold the FOB under the steering column, touching the column about right in the center from the distance of the dash to the start of the steering wheel. Hold it there 5 seconds and wait for the signal that it communicated with the FOB. Some you hold the FOB right on the start button but not pushing the button with the FOB. When you hear the chime, then you know it communicated, then you have like 10 seconds to hit the brake pedal hard and release park and the steering wheel lock.
So if all else fails, hell yeah, just drag it on up and shake it off at the dealership. This is why roll backs now need Go Jacks these days. I've always gotten by with just using homemade skates or wreckmaster poly skates, and have even gotten by just shaking them off using watered down Dawn.
The other option, like in this Nissan Maxima which is FWD, is just to use a conventional wheel lift truck and you can load those just fine with the wheels cut hard in either direction. They'll sit in the L arms just fine even in a Self Loader. I do it all the time. This is why I get all the No Key, or NO Key FOB recognized calls. Even with a wheel lift truck though, if it's nosed it on pavement or concrete, then you use Go Jacks to get it out of the hole, or strap the rear wheels down real tight and drag it backwards on skates. If on gravel or dirt, straps the rear wheels in the lift and drag it backwards, set it down and rehook in the front.
