Locked My Keys In My Car!!
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MediumD
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Reminds me of when I was installing an oil pressure gauge in my TBird. I installed the gauge and started it up, got out to check for leaks. As I'm looking the door closes, and for some reason the car locks, just as I notice it's gushing oil out of a fitting. So I'm locked out of a running car that has about 3 minutes before it spins a bearing due to oil starvation, and I'm standing there waking my neighbors kid up from his nap with my swearing (I got yelled at later for that)...
I did the first thing that came to mind, which was pull a battery cable, which of course didn't stop the engine. Then in a slight panic I painfully yank out 3 plug wires before it quits running...
I did the first thing that came to mind, which was pull a battery cable, which of course didn't stop the engine. Then in a slight panic I painfully yank out 3 plug wires before it quits running...
chicken
SHEOOOOOOOOT
depending on what year bird you could of just unplugged the coil packs
LSC HUNTER
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Ok here is one for you and it is happening right now so any help would be appreciated.
My neighbour who has been living there for less than six months pulls in the driveway last night shuts of his car/truck, a Toyota Rav 4 and the brake lights stay on I figured that part out as I was sitting on my front porch. Well an hour later they are still on. I talk to him and say I don't know much about these new things and based on a Mark8 I know that they have sorts of new :q:q:q:q electrical in these things. Well it is finally decided that I will try to check things out and if I cannot figure it out I will disconnect the battery so it does not kill it so he can get it to the dealer to get it checked. The thing looks to be close to new so it is under warranty.
He decides that his wife can still drop him off at his buddys place and I will check when she gets back. 1/2 hour later she pulls into the drive way and I go about the business of checking. I even try the switch on the pedal, no luck. So id do the last part of the plan and disconnect the battery negative terminal, lights out and lock up all four doors. Good neighbor I am out there at 11:00 trying to fix the car.
This morning I am out on the porch having my coffee and I look over at thier car and it strikes me. There is no key lock on the passenger side so I jump up and run over and look on the drivers side, no lock..WTF!!! I locked all four doors manualy how am I going to get back into this thing to unlatch the hood to hook up the battery terminal again? I still have to check the rear hatch door, as I did not open it and hit a lock button on it I hope it is still open so I can crawl through this POS and unlock the door.
I have never noticed this before and I started looking around at the cars around in the area no freaking locks on the outside of them all electric. How do you get in these things if the battery goes dead after you lock them for the day or night?
My neighbour who has been living there for less than six months pulls in the driveway last night shuts of his car/truck, a Toyota Rav 4 and the brake lights stay on I figured that part out as I was sitting on my front porch. Well an hour later they are still on. I talk to him and say I don't know much about these new things and based on a Mark8 I know that they have sorts of new :q:q:q:q electrical in these things. Well it is finally decided that I will try to check things out and if I cannot figure it out I will disconnect the battery so it does not kill it so he can get it to the dealer to get it checked. The thing looks to be close to new so it is under warranty.
He decides that his wife can still drop him off at his buddys place and I will check when she gets back. 1/2 hour later she pulls into the drive way and I go about the business of checking. I even try the switch on the pedal, no luck. So id do the last part of the plan and disconnect the battery negative terminal, lights out and lock up all four doors. Good neighbor I am out there at 11:00 trying to fix the car.
This morning I am out on the porch having my coffee and I look over at thier car and it strikes me. There is no key lock on the passenger side so I jump up and run over and look on the drivers side, no lock..WTF!!! I locked all four doors manualy how am I going to get back into this thing to unlatch the hood to hook up the battery terminal again? I still have to check the rear hatch door, as I did not open it and hit a lock button on it I hope it is still open so I can crawl through this POS and unlock the door.
I have never noticed this before and I started looking around at the cars around in the area no freaking locks on the outside of them all electric. How do you get in these things if the battery goes dead after you lock them for the day or night?
96hotrodlincoln
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Dude, I did this for a co-worker who locked her keys in her car awhile back. She only had one key, so there was no alternative and she didn't want to pay a locksmith. Told her I'd get her in her car. I work at a school so I grabbed one of their wooden door wedge blocks and a piece of stainless filler rod from the welding class.
She drives an Escape, I just pulled out the upper door frame corner and inserted the wedge to hold it, took the filler rod, inserted it to figure out how I needed to bend it, put it back in, pushed the unlock button and was in. Took me less than 5 minutes, you really need something stiffer than a coat hanger, the hanger is usually too flexible to get the job done.
You really need to get more in touch with the MacGyver within you!
She drives an Escape, I just pulled out the upper door frame corner and inserted the wedge to hold it, took the filler rod, inserted it to figure out how I needed to bend it, put it back in, pushed the unlock button and was in. Took me less than 5 minutes, you really need something stiffer than a coat hanger, the hanger is usually too flexible to get the job done.
You really need to get more in touch with the MacGyver within you!
LSC HUNTER
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Yeah that would be great but I had disconnected the battery as the brake lights will not turn off so not power at all.
Good thing though, when I checked for locks this morning I did miis the one and only on the drivers door but I had not locked the rear hatch. Dodged a bullet and all is good now except the brake lights still stay on. Off to the dealer tomorrow morning.
Good thing though, when I checked for locks this morning I did miis the one and only on the drivers door but I had not locked the rear hatch. Dodged a bullet and all is good now except the brake lights still stay on. Off to the dealer tomorrow morning.
96hotrodlincoln
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Sometimes, if you're lucky you can get ahold of the handle and pull it to open the door, if the doors work that way, if not, then you're stuck trying to trigger the lock manually or just call a locksmith.