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    Established Member Two Rings Stearnsy's Avatar
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    Need quick help, keys locked in car!

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    Sorry guys, tried searching, but had no luck.

    To keep a long story short, went to the beach with friends, keys were inadvertently locked in the trunk, and valet key is 100 miles away.

    Do I need to drive the 100 miles to get my valet key? Can I get into the trunk with it? What are my other options? The car is still sitting at the beach, and the sun's been down for an hour, pleeeaaasee help. TIA.
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    All four doors are locked?

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    Established Member Two Rings Stearnsy's Avatar
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    Yep, completely locked out. AAA couldn't get in.
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    Quote Originally Posted by Stearnsy View Post
    Yep, completely locked out. AAA couldn't get in.
    Im pretty sure youre screwed man. Im sorry.


    You tried clicking the trunk handle right? Like tried manually opening it? Chances are that locked too but not much you can do at this point

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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    could a local locksmith take care of it?
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    you can break the window and hope that you can fold rear seat

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    Registered Member Four Rings audipotential's Avatar
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    Quote Originally Posted by masterforu2nv View Post
    could a local locksmith take care of it?
    Im sure they could but depending on how much they want he might be better off finding a way to his valet key

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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    uh don't try shimmying the door through the window, could set off the side air bags.
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    Quote Originally Posted by A4TUNE View Post
    uh don't try shimmying the door through the window, could set off the side air bags.
    What? That's rediculous! Those sensors are located at the bottom of the pillar.
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    maybe try sliding the window down by hand to make a gap and stick a hanger in to try and press the unlock button, might mess up the window mechanisms

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    Veteran Member Four Rings T0M3K's Avatar
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    Breaking window reminds of that video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuySmopuwL4

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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    dude i just had this happen yesterday to me.... Good old campus police got in in about 10 minutes
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    ^ How did the campus police do it?

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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    Can't use a slimjim. Usually AAA or tow truck drivers wedge a silcone triangular block between the B Pillar and the door frame so it gets them access to inside the cabin. They'll slide a metal hook in there and hit the unlock button, thats how the guy unlocked my door when the keys were inside the trunk.
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    wow,,,lesson learned i guess..

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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    Quote Originally Posted by gdawg'05a4 View Post
    Can't use a slimjim. Usually AAA or tow truck drivers wedge a silcone triangular block between the B Pillar and the door frame so it gets them access to inside the cabin. They'll slide a metal hook in there and hit the unlock button, thats how the guy unlocked my door when the keys were inside the trunk.
    for me the campus police had some kind of cushion thing that they wedged in there and puffed it up, then they had the big wire hangar looking thing in there to unlock it
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    The right tool for the right job
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    this happened to me -- i left my keys in the trunk and it relocked after i closed the trunk. my friend called AAA telling them it was his car and they just put that inflatable thing in my door and hit the unlock button. Good thing he did because I bought my car with one key.
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    Quote Originally Posted by sailor View Post
    The right tool for the right job
    Inflate-A-Wedge-Easy-Access-Kit
    ballin, thats exactly what they used lol
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    ...you have a trunk release button?

    as long as my doors are unlocked you can open the trunk...
    and if you hit that unlock button it should unlock - that sounds like a totally unrelated problem to me. if that was the case no method short of getting another key or breaking the window would have worked.

    my suggestion to you for next time, go to lowes and get a wood file. lol
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    Veteran Member Four Rings gdawg'05a4's Avatar
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    If the tow guy is hitting the unlock button and it's not unlocking the car, there is something else wrong. Possible dead battery too?
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    Established Member Two Rings gotquattro's Avatar
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    Re: Need quick help, keys locked in car!

    I can say with more authority than I'd like that any locksmith worth his paycheck can open any car he has the tools and ability to read about.

    These tools are sold in kits with instructions that make your yellow pages look thin. Every make, every model going back dozens of years. Pictures of the inside of the door, which specific tool to use, where to wedge the window, how to attack the specific make & model, be it in the door or under the glass to the inside buttons, everything.

    The rather intellegent, money making ones don't need the books anymore, but the few times they do, they read up before leaving the shop, and make doubly sure the right tool is handy.

    They pull up, get the releases, $ & ID signed and squared away, open your door, and usually less than five minutes later they leave, the job profitably and professionally complete.


    On behalf of the Pro's, I apologize for the retards you were stuck with.


    I will also say that being a good damn locksmith is a hell of a lotta fun. It was a great way to spend a decade of my life, till I started a rep agency and learned over the next decade how to starve like a real pro


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