Change your default Dixmor code

[MEP001]

I just got an email link to a TikTok video where some asshat showed how to set up a universal remote to turn on a Dixmor timer for a free car wash. The video has been taken down, but it had some 50,000 views first. Nearly every car wash I've ever visited has their timers left at the default code.

 

[traveler17]

Thx for the heads up. Lots of asshats these days

 

[Dan kamsickas]

I just got an email link to a TikTok video where some asshat showed how to set up a universal remote to turn on a Dixmor timer for a free car wash. The video has been taken down, but it had some 50,000 views first. Nearly every car wash I've ever visited has their timers left at the default code.

I've had it sent to me a ton because it's a LED6 someone field retrofitted to an pretty old Ginsan door. Funny thing is the default code on a Dixmor is not what he used. He had to get that code for that from someone at the wash who knew it. He's also been turned into the Austin PD.

 

[MEP001]

I didn't get to see the video as it had been taken down by the time I got it, so I assumed he used the default code. In any case, anyone can find it out with a quick Google search. I found a full Dixmor setup video on YouTube including how to change the code.

He could've gotten the code from watching an attendant. I make sure no one can see me pressing the buttons.

 

[Dan kamsickas]

I didn't get to see the video as it had been taken down by the time I got it, so I assumed he used the default code. In any case, anyone can find it out with a quick Google search. I found a full Dixmor setup video on YouTube including how to change the code.

He could've gotten the code from watching an attendant. I make sure no one can see me pressing the buttons.

He says that the code he uses is for any wash. It's not. He's an idiot either way for committing a crime and posting it on the internet.....with his name and location.

 

[MEP001]

Do you happen to have that video in a format you can send me?

 

[Dan kamsickas]

Nope. All I got was the tiktok link from a bazillion people. He used 52 something something as the code. He either got the code and remote from a wash employee or works(or worked) in the industry. I doubt he bought one from a car wash supplier. From what I know you can't just take any universal remote and have it scan for an access code like a TV. You have to have that before you can even get to entering the pass code.

 

[MEP001]

Nope. All I got was the tiktok link from a bazillion people. He used 52 something something as the code. He either got the code and remote from a wash employee or works(or worked) in the industry. I doubt he bought one from a car wash supplier. From what I know you can't just take any universal remote and have it scan for an access code like a TV. You have to have that before you can even get to entering the pass code.

Right, I tried to talk someone through programming a universal remote once but since you have to use channel up buttons to test the codes and he couldn't get the timer into the code entry point, we had no way to figure it out. I got some stills from the video and he's using a Panasonic universal remote, so he didn't buy that from any distributor. I know a guy who had an employee who kept losing remotes, then I caught him one day taking cash to start the bay with the remote, so we suspect he was selling the remotes.

 

[Dan kamsickas]

We've used Panasonic and a couple other universal remotes on ours. The brand is irrelevant. It's the programming in the remote and, more importantly, the timer.

 

[slash007]

I use a universal remote and save my Dixmor remote. I forgot what code worked, but it's just a standard major TV brand.

 

[Randy]

I saw that video on TikTok. The default code for the Dixmor timer isn’t what was posted on the TikTok video so it had to be an inside set-up. It would pretty hard to figure out what the codes would be without some inside help. The first thing they’d have to do is figure out which remote to use, not all universal remotes are the same, different brand TV’s use a different remote code. Then you have to figure out what code is programmed into the timer to make it start. But You might be surprised at how many car wash operators don’t that they can start the bay with a remote.