"DerbyDad03" wrote in message
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On Nov 2, 12:20 pm, "Steve B" wrote:
"micky" wrote in message

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On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:35:28 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote:

This seems to have a very low probably of working. Anyone ever done
it?

http://www.wikihow.com/Unlock-Your-Car-with-String

Very clever.

I was at Atlanta raceway one weekend in the infield. The driver of a
new Camaro had locked his keys in the car. The guy was trying to
break the windshield with a large rock to get the keys. Lucky for him
the windshield wouldn't break. He went around to the driver side and
broke the drivers' window.

If one is going to break in with a slim jim, and probably by breaking
the window, it's better to do so on the passenger side. A friend
locked his keys in the car in Cambridge Md. and the cops there are
nice enough there to break in with a slim jim. But in doing so he
unhooked the rod inside the driver's door, and my friend had to go in
through the passenger side all day. He had passengers during the
day, so we broke even, but when he went home, until he fixed it, it
woudl have been better if the pasenger door lock didn't work and his
door did.

(I fixed the lock before he left. )

Actually, the rear doors are the easiest way to get in, particularly if
the
buttons can be seen. Bend a piece of stout wire in two L's, making a boxy
looking J. Put a couple of shims between glass and gasket. Make one L
about 3" long, the other 2". You're trying to go under the bottom part of
the window and come up under the button with the tip of the wire. You can
also do it with a slim Jim, just feel around in there, and when you see
the
door button move, you've hit a component.

Be very careful when pulling or pushing, as a lot of the pieces are held
together with just a plastic keeper. Lincolns take about two seconds with
this wire. Stainless steel filler wire is the best, as it doesn't bend
easily, and will stay stiff when you hit the right component. Slim jims
should have different ends, one with a J, the other with a V. That way,
whether you have to push or pull, you have the right configuration.

Sometimes the slim Jim has to be repeatedly curved so it gets over to the
mechanism. It ain't very hard once you've done a couple of hundred of
them.
On the front door, you keep your finger on the outside of the lock so you
can feel when you touch the component inside. After that, it's just
mentally visualizing what's in there, and bending the slim Jim to catch
what
you need. Trips to the local junk yard are a good thing, too, if you're
going to seriously get into this, as you can see the mechanisms exposed.
It
is surprising how very simple some of them actually are.

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The lock "plunger" on my van is rectangular in shape with a small
concave area that an occupant could put a finger tip into to unlock
the door, but doesn't leave much for any kind of hook to grab onto.

However, the lock control that an occupant would normally use to
activate the power locks sticks out of the door panel, perpendicular
to the panel.

AAA opened my van by slipping a hooked instrument down through the
window, hooking it under the lock control and lifting up to activate
the power locks.

REPLY: If you can just get enough space, say 1/8" in the window, you can
put all manner of ingenious little things in there. Sometimes these things
are laying beside the road, or in the parking lot, or just handy.

Steve