commandée par "plip" d'origine

English translation: key-fob controlled

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French term or phrase:	comandée par plip
English translation:	key-fob controlled
Entered by:	Clare Macnamara

10:33 May 19, 2005

French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Automotive / Cars & Trucks / car accessories

French term or phrase: commandée par "plip" d'origine

Another item on the car accessory list. The full item is:
Alarme anti-intrusion commandée par “plip” d’origine. Is the alarm actually controlled by the "bleep" or does the "bleep" go off inside the car when someone attempts to break in? Or maybe it's something totally different ...

TIA

Clare Macnamara KudoZ activity Questions: 154 (none open) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 1241
Local time: 21:14

with plip control as standard

Explanation:
A "plip" is a handheld, remote control, key-fob device.

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Note added at 3 hrs 28 mins (2005-05-19 14:01:31 GMT)
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Further to comments made by Colin and Chris below, \"with original plip control\" or \"controlled by the original plip\" may be preferable.

Selected response from:

David Goward
France
Local time: 21:14

Grading comment

Thanks everyone, very interesting input. I'm going for key fob as there are loads of Google hits for key fob+car brand name. Thanks Colin for point about "standard".
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

4 +1

with plip control as standard

David Goward

3 -1

plutôt seconde proposition

Albert Golub

3 -1

controlled by the standard plip

Chris Collins (X)

3 -1

(high frequency) remote control

Maurice Thibaux

Discussion entries: 6

Answers

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

commandée par plutôt seconde proposition

Explanation:
A mon avis, le bleep ne commande pas le système mais est déclenché par une tentative d'intrusion en déclenchant éventuellement, de façon simultanée, une alerte enregistrée par un central distant
Certaines centrales, essentiellement celles qui sont activables par télécommande, sont dotées d'une fonction généralement connue sous le nom de BLEEP, qui génère un ou deux coups de sirène lors de l'activation ou de la désactivation du système. Ce dispositif, courant en alarme automobile doit absolument être proscrit en maisons individuelles. Il possède en effet la caractéristique déplorable d'informer tout individu situé dans un large périmètre de l'instant précis où vous activez ou désactivez votre système d'alarme, avec les conséquences possibles que l'on imagine.

Albert Golub
Local time: 21:14
Native speaker of: French

58 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

commandée par controlled by the standard plip

Explanation:
Definitely plip. Doesn't it mean here that the device is controlled by the standard/original plip (you don't have to carry 2)

Chris Collins (X)
Local time: 20:14
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 81

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): -1

commandée par (high frequency) remote control

Explanation:
According to Kiekert who make them. En français, c'est traduit par plip HF et en anglais ils le laissent en entier sur leur page d'accueil. I think plip is a term coined by the French. I have only found it on Citroën though but that's what they call it.

Maurice Thibaux
Local time: 05:14
Native speaker of:

French

20 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

commandée par

with plip control as standard

David Goward
France
Local time: 21:14
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 134

Grading comment

Thanks everyone, very interesting input. I'm going for key fob as there are loads of Google hits for key fob+car brand name. Thanks Colin for point about "standard".

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Bourth (X): Beat me to it. Loads of ghits. Asked at my sports club what the people (French) called the thing on the keyring, and no one knows it as a "plip", though one person had heard his father, a former garage owner, use the word.

1 min

-> Thanks - love the word "ghits"!

agree

Charlie Bavington: So *that's* what you call it! Must say it's a lot shorter than my usual "that black thing on the keyring that opens the car" Why is this word not public knowledge? :-) [or is it just me?]

1 hr

-> Cheers Charlie. Don't think it's public knowledge in France either...

disagree

mckinnc: don't like as standard - that means it is not an accessory. What is meant by "d'origine" is that it is not a third party device

2 hrs

-> Point taken.

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