Locked out

Have you ever locked yourself out of your car?

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trevitrace said:
Just checked, and the vehicle doesn't even need to be running. Trying to lock it with the keys left in the ignition and it automatically unlocks. Damn, Toyota, you were ahead of your time! 😜
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I like the push button start and touch sensor doors for the convenience of being able to just leave my keys in my pocket.

Super convenient when grabbing stuff out of the car, to just push the door shut and touch the lock sensor with the back of my hand.
 
A couple times over the years but not recently.

Back "in the day," you could get back in w/just a coat hanger (or a slim jim). I've never been locked out since the advent of remote openers.

No way to lock the car w/o the remote in hand. So, no way to lock myself out of any of those cars. However, I still have 2 "key" operated cars where that's still possible but I have spare keys for each at home.
 
I have locked my car keys in the trunk/boot twice. First time, a long time ago, it was in my old Peugeot 505. I managed to whittle a ice cream stick into a replacement key and could unlock quite fast. :D
Second time was in kind of a non-event. My "new" car (from 2014) have touch unlocking (provided the key is in the vicinity) and it's possible to open the trunk/boot without unlocking the rest of the car. I opened the boot, put in a bag of magazines and closed it again. When it had closed I realized that I had the car key in the bag as well. :oops: But luckily I could just open the boot again and move the key to my pant pocket.
Funny thing, when the car was new my then girlfriend, now wife, went out to check that the car was locked, so she pulled the handle on a door and the car unlocked, she locked it (using the button on the key) and pulled the handle again, and it unlocked. She repeated that a couple of times before she gave up (but I think she locked it before she left). 😄
 
I was at work locating underground Gas pipe and Electrical lines on a major roadway. My standard method was to locate what I could from an access point and then move down the street little by little to complete a job, or at least stay ahead of the construction and repair crews. To do this I'd often be in and out of the truck every couple of minutes, if I wasn't going to be far from it id just leave it running. This was my last job of the day, and the last section of it that id be doing was going to be quick. I parked along the side of the road blocking someones driveway. I really thought that i'd be done in 2 minutes, and I was, with the job, not my time on the side of the road. The craziest thing happened when I lifted the door handle on the Ford Ranger ( work truck ) it somehow locked the door instead of opening it. I watched the lock go down next to the window as I pulled the handle, it was a legitimate WTF moment, and I was locked out of the still running truck with no cell phone, no radio, and no spare key. I had learned to jimmy my way into a Chrysler product pretty easily but Fords were almost impossible for me to get into. I scrounged the the gear in the back of the truck while I considered breaking the window, there was nothing that I thought would be useful other than the utility flags that we used to mark the paint lines. I was fortunate enough to have some of the old style with the thin metal stems instead of the plastic ones. I bent the flag into a makeshift slimjim and jammed it in between the window and door skin. I could feel the flag unbending and knew that it wouldn't be strong enough to work but when I tried to pull the flag out of the door it got stuck on something. I yanked that flag out and it somehow unlocked the door, another total WTF moment- but much happier. I was never able to duplicate that one when other crew members locked themselves out but I did learn that I could get into any Ford or Mazda with a thin screwdriver by inserting it into the small hole that the handle hinge has, nearest the lock, and pushing up and away from the door hinge side of the door. After that I was the guy that the boss called when this happened to other employees.
 
I remembered another one. I was attending the Downtown " Hoedown " country music festival in Detroit with a buddy and a few Ladies. There were a bunch of us so we all piled into one of the Girls Parents station wagons ( I was probably 20 which means 10,000 years ago ). After she parked the Wagon on a side street downtown my buddy's girl closed the drivers door and then realized that she had left the keys laying on the drivers seat-In DOWNTOWN DETROIT! We were hosed. I had to try something so I took the antenna off of the car, bent the end of it, and pushed it through the seal on the back vent window. I was able to get it open but couldn't reach the back door handle with it, I tried going through the door jamb but couldn't hook the door handle or lock. We looked around at the construction site that we parked next to for something that'd help and I found a long piece of chainlink fence. I took that long pice of endless WWWWWWWWWWWWW and fed it in from that rear passenger vent window to the front seat. With my buddy guiding me I hooked the keychain and pulled it out the back window while we all held our breathe hoping that I wouldn't drop the keys somewhere where I wouldn't be able to reach them again. It was an eventful day all around, and a Mcgyver moment that we all laughed about for a long time.
 
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