when i first got my impreza i done the above,i only had the car 2 weeks,parked it at Blockbuster in Cumbernauld,no plips from the fob,didnt know anything about the keypad,had to get the wife to walk to her mothers ,borrow her car and bring me the handbook.Luckily the small silver sticker with the pin code was still with the handbook.......but i had already mucked around with the keypad which had now timed out for 30 mins,so after the mrs. giving me grief for buying a" stupid" car and myself ready to kick the s**** out of my scooby a' la Basil Fawlty i phoned the breakdown guy.He turned up after 45mins,by which time 'er indoors buggered of home in her mothers car leaving me to sit and wait.The breakdown guy scratched his head and his crotch and nodded,"i've got an idea" he said.Minutes later my car was being dragged onto the low-loader,so off we went a couple of hundred yards as the guy explained that it was most likely that the many aerial and mobile phone masts on top of Cumbernauld town centre.A "plip" of the fob later and yahoo! it was sorted.That was four years ago now and the mrs. loves our "stupid" car.