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Khal · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 11:43 am Post subject: Potential "How-to"...

Can anyone do a "How-to" about getting your keys out of your car if you lock them in..?

I did it this morning. Luckily I've got a spare set, so it wasn't a big drama.

But it got me thinking... how do you break into these things?

I can get into almost any pre-'90's Ford with a piece of packing tape

I use to keep a strip of it in my wallet but I've recently got a new wallet and haven't updated it with my "break'n enter" kit

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Mikri184 · Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 746 Location: Ferndale, WA

I little known trick to breaking in cars
Used by repo guys and used car lots
You can bend back the top of the door with a pry bar, and use something to pop the lock, the doors have quite a bit of flex. You would be surprised. There is always the make shift slim jim too. 924/944 have realitively easy locks to pop.
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Paul · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 12:56 pm Post subject:

Pop the rear side window with a toilet plunger?
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Kenodog · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 2669 Location: Vancouver,B.C.

elbow

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Ozzie · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

Coat hander wire to pull the plunger or slim jim.
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teo · Joined: 07 Sep 2001 Posts: 637 Location: Hungary, Europe

If you happen to be in a 924 meeting when you lock yourself out, just get some keys from the other members and try them, one of them will work.

(It wasn't me...)

Mikri184's method of bending to top back a bit works too, at least if you have an already not so straight door.
(That was me)

Min · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 4:06 pm Post subject:

My driver side door has previously had the lock broken(someone drove a flatheadscrewdriver into the lock, or some other flat object), so I just unlock it with a penny, or screwdriver, or thumbnail....

Min

timstar92404 · Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 2075 Location: richmond BC

I did that a couple of times with my old car. I found a coat hanger and spent a long time and finally opened it.

my 924 driver side also opens with anything because I removed the key lock tumblers.
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Ozzie · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject:

Of course I could always get my late fathers locksmithing equipment out of storage.
He had some picking equipment and it is not as quick as they show on TV crime shows to pick a lock. Easy enough but takes a while.
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Mike924 · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Posts: 2601 Location: IoW UK

How did you manage that, Khal?

My driver's door can only be locked with the key. So, if yours is the same, you must've had the hatch open, locked your driver's door, thrown the keys in through the hatch and then slammed the hatch shut!

Am I right?

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Khal · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

Ozzie · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject:

Good one.
I have learnt to always open a window when working on the car.
Many a time the central locking has activated- probably the alarm has rearmed and locked the doors while I am working under the bonnet.
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Peter_in_AU · Joined: 29 Jul 2001 Posts: 2743 Location: Sydney, Australia

another key cut from a generic blank saved me a couple of times when the brain was on holiday. Without all the plastic the key is not much thicker than a credit card and sits in the wallet nicely.
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Ozzie · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 9:10 pm Post subject:

I already had a spare set in the house but just after I bought the car I was underneath checking brakes and fuel lines and found a spare key attached by wire to body.
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