Bugsy Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Try this, it really works.If you have a push-button type key fob and you've locked it inside your car you can, providing you have a spare fob at home, use your mobile phone to unlock the car.Ring home and ask whoever to get the spare key-fob for the car, ask them to press the 'open' button whilst holding the fob near to their phone, you have to hold your phone near to the activator on your car at the same time. you will be amazed at this but your car should open..Try it, before you lock yourself out, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Oh yes.........Many years ago on the M62 heading over the pennines one Saturday afternoon.I was a fairly new driver and trundling along in the inside lane and this lorry behind kept flashing me, Thinking there was maybe something wrong with my car , I pulled over onto the hard shoulder and automaticaly pulled or pushed the mechanism that made the door lock (ford escort MK 1) **********, realising what I had done , thought I had better start looking for the emergency phone. Realising my handbag was still in the car I was reluctant to move, panicked a bit and tried other door and boot which were locked. I stuck my hands in my coat pocket and my yale housekey was in there..........shoved it in the door lock et voila!!!!Its no wonder my car was always having its spare tyre and steri knicked!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Please forgive me if this is a silly question, but how does someone lock their keys inside the car nowadays? [8-)]EDIT, whilst not wishing to imply that the original poster might have been winding us all up, you might like to read this...http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Can do it in my Mondeo. You can set amd arm the locks/alarm when say the boot or the doors are open. Then, when everything is closed, it is all activated, with possibly your keys safely inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suandpete Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 This was going the rounds a while ago - it's an urban myth I'm afraid.http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/keyless.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 What interesting information from the first post!It's happened to me too. Got out of the car with the keys left in the ignition. Dogs pressed on lock while trying to look out! Luckily the window was slightly open for them and I managed to get my hand down to the lock button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 I remember years ago one of my sisters locked her 6 week old baby in the car and the keys were in the ignition. She was in a terrible state! Someone in the car park ran and got a nearby car mechanic to open the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meg Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 [quote user="Bugbear"]Try this, it really works.If you have a push-button type key fob and you've locked it inside your car you can, providing you have a spare fob at home, use your mobile phone to unlock the car.Ring home and ask whoever to get the spare key-fob for the car, ask them to press the 'open' button whilst holding the fob near to their phone, you have to hold your phone near to the activator on your car at the same time. you will be amazed at this but your car should open..Try it, before you lock yourself out, of course. [/quote]Sounds all a bit mad to me!!Anyway Bugbear how do you know..........you can't lock youself out of a motorbike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Driver Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 We were on a campsite once next to a load of Dutch campers. One of the women had a cockatoo in a cage outside the tent. Apart from swearing at everyone in Dutch, it had learned to make bleeping noises and was amusing itself by turning the woman's central locking on and off...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWINKLE Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Don't you just LOVE the Dutch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirpy Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 I once locked keys in a rented car and i was next door to a police station who came with their bunch of keys but could not find one suitable.They looked around the carpark for a piece of coathanger wire and managed to pull the push down buttonsback up which were very popular 30 years ago.WE ALL HAD A GREAT LAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anton Redman Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Always break the windscreen not the quarter lights because everybody stocks windscreens and nobody stocks quarter lights.My dad once slammed the rear door of a Thames Trader dress van with his suit jacket hanging on a wooden coat hanger in the back of the van with the ignition keys in it. We spent till 11 pm that Sunday installing a plywood door between the cab and back and then had to install three more because everybody decided it was a good idea20 years ago very nice lady said her son had locked them out of their Ford Fiesta. Looked round Homebase car park, found a piece of strapping had door open in 8 seconds. To this day I am expecting Jeremy Beagle, Surrey Constablary, or somebody remaking 'Gone in 90 Seconds' to invite me for questioning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 You can buy kits to break into cars, but you have to prove that you are a mechanic or breakdown service operative. They seem to consist of very thin pieces of metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loiseau Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 [quote user="Anton Redman"]Always break the windscreen not the quarter lights because everybody stocks windscreens and nobody stocks quarter lights.[/quote]That's interesting, Anton! I managed not only to lock myself out of a hire car, back in the early 1970s, but also to leave the engine running! I was working on a documentary in Ireland, and had driven self and members of the crew to a medieval banquet at Blarney Castle. Everybody scrambled out noisily, and last one must have pressed button down and slammed the door. Can't say I enjoyed the evening much, thinking of the engine ticking over in the car park. Calls to the hire company in Dublin had failed to come up with any solution, so in the end one of the crew broke the quarter light to get in. I then had to spend the only day off hanging around in Limerick waiting to get it fixed. [:(]But next time (hope there isn't one!) I shall remember the windscreen trick!Angela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ford Anglia Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Whilst working at a local children's centre this week I was called to a lady in the carpark who had locked her one year old son in her car.Three of us messed around for ages trying all sorts of things to get it open, but eventually had to resort to breaking the front o/s window. The little boy slept through it all, while his mother wept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissie Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 A guy I used to work with spent one Sunday morning installing stereo speakers into his classic car, which involved going into back shelf or whatever through the boot. Suddenly there was a hideous creaking noise and, terrified, he jerked his legs up into the boot just in time to stop them being crushed by extremely solid boot lid.......... It was apparently 3 hours before his wife got cross enough with him to come out to garage to look for him.Chrissie (81) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Luckily for me - as I have locked my keys in a succession of cars in the past - I cannot do with with my little Nissan as it makes a hideous demented beeping noise if I try to do so! Very useful during my increasing number of Saga moments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patf Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 This happened to us years ago and husband managed to remove the back windscreen without breaking anything. I can't remember what model of car it was, possibly a Ford Escort estate. Pat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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