{"id":3117,"date":"2010-12-30T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T22:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=3117"},"modified":"2011-05-14T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T15:06:32","slug":"non-winning-auto-intellikey-teardown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/non-winning-auto-intellikey-teardown\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Winning AUTO-intelliKEY Teardown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5798-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5798-scaled.jpg\" height=427 width=640 border=0 title=\"Top of the AUTO-intelliKEY promotional item received from a Kia dealer.\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a non-winning AUTO-intelliKEY, a fake key-shaped vehicle remote sent out as a promotion by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtclemenskia.com\">a local Kia dealer<\/a> to try and get people into the store. Apparently some of these keys will actually active different locks on some vehicles, and those specific keys win prizes. <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5800-scaled.jpg\">This photo<\/a> shows the inside of the unit, with just some metal domes where contacts would otherwise be and no other electronics. Thus this key doesn&#8217;t work and is not a winner.<\/p>\n<p>The flier that this was mailed on also includes a scratch-off number and barcode, all of which offer other prizes that must be checked at the dealership. Since I&#8217;m not going to be visiting the dealer to check on the state of these numbers then I guess I&#8217;m just like the poor souls who failed to claim a $30,000 cash prizes (Lisa C.) and a new vehicle (Lorayne D.).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see some more photos of the AUTO-intelliKEY teardown <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em>, take a look here <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a non-winning AUTO-intelliKEY, a fake key-shaped vehicle remote sent out as a promotion by a local Kia dealer to try and get people into the store. Apparently some of these keys will actually active different locks on some vehicles, and those specific keys win prizes. This photo shows the inside of the unit,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-automotive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}