My sister phoned me this morning, that’s a bit unusual we normal text by Whatsapp. She sounded rather upset and explained the problem.
Firstly a bit of background info, a few days ago when I was visiting she mentioned her boot lock was sticking on her car. I checked it over and decided it’s probably an intermittent ecu fault - go get it booked in for investigation I can’t help out.
Anyhow, she said to me, you know I’ve had a problem with the boot lock well I was walking the dogs, put them in the car, threw in the leads for all 3 off them, and dropped the keys in at the same time by mistake and shut the boot. The car is locked because she only unlocked the boot. And now she can’t get in.
Why didn’t you call your partner - can’t he’s in France checking over their other house. OK, I suppose I can go to your house for the spare set of keys, but I’d have to break in as it’s locked.
That’s no good she says, the spare set is in the car ready for her to get the car checked over
So both sets are in the car, marvellous!
OK I called my pal so he could see if he could get a blank key cut, but VW also can only order keys which would take days. I’m prepared to break a window if necessary, we need to rescue the dogs before they overheat. Looking around her car there isn’t provision to use a key from outside, I’ve looked at mine and that also doesn’t have key holes. So what do you do if the fob battery fails and you’re away from anywhere to get a battery? I’ll investigate that.
She isn’t AA or RAC or Green Flag etc. it’s getting even better so she phoned her insurance company and to her delight she has breakdown with them on her policy. They called the breakdown company and amazingly a van turned up inside 30 minutes. I’m impressed.
The mechanic took out a selection of wedges and bars and by levering the upper edge of the door finagled a rod inside to click the door lock release button - it didn’t work. I’m only now thinking that as the car had been locked by fob it was disabled and immobilised, maybe?
Then, amazingly, bearing in mind the ‘lost’ keys were dropped in the boot and inaccessible, he noticed that the spare keys were on display in the centre console - amazing, absolutely perfect for an opportunist thief to break in and drive away. So that’s what the mechanic attempted. He lifted the keys with one of his bendy rods and brought it up to the gap he’d made between the door and bodywork - and couldn’t get them through as he couldn’t lever the top of the door too far without breaking the glass.
onto plan b, he then replaced the keys on the drivers seat, and then pressed the unlock button using the rod. The door’s open, the dogs are saved and all is well.
What a performance. The mechanic said he loves this sort of job as it requires ingenuity and he’s never had a failure to get in,
I’ll be seeing her again on Thursday, will her embarrassment have faded by then? I’ll remind her
Firstly a bit of background info, a few days ago when I was visiting she mentioned her boot lock was sticking on her car. I checked it over and decided it’s probably an intermittent ecu fault - go get it booked in for investigation I can’t help out.
Anyhow, she said to me, you know I’ve had a problem with the boot lock well I was walking the dogs, put them in the car, threw in the leads for all 3 off them, and dropped the keys in at the same time by mistake and shut the boot. The car is locked because she only unlocked the boot. And now she can’t get in.
Why didn’t you call your partner - can’t he’s in France checking over their other house. OK, I suppose I can go to your house for the spare set of keys, but I’d have to break in as it’s locked.
That’s no good she says, the spare set is in the car ready for her to get the car checked over
So both sets are in the car, marvellous!OK I called my pal so he could see if he could get a blank key cut, but VW also can only order keys which would take days. I’m prepared to break a window if necessary, we need to rescue the dogs before they overheat. Looking around her car there isn’t provision to use a key from outside, I’ve looked at mine and that also doesn’t have key holes. So what do you do if the fob battery fails and you’re away from anywhere to get a battery? I’ll investigate that.
She isn’t AA or RAC or Green Flag etc. it’s getting even better
so she phoned her insurance company and to her delight she has breakdown with them on her policy. They called the breakdown company and amazingly a van turned up inside 30 minutes. I’m impressed.The mechanic took out a selection of wedges and bars and by levering the upper edge of the door finagled a rod inside to click the door lock release button - it didn’t work. I’m only now thinking that as the car had been locked by fob it was disabled and immobilised, maybe?
Then, amazingly, bearing in mind the ‘lost’ keys were dropped in the boot and inaccessible, he noticed that the spare keys were on display in the centre console - amazing, absolutely perfect for an opportunist thief to break in and drive away. So that’s what the mechanic attempted. He lifted the keys with one of his bendy rods and brought it up to the gap he’d made between the door and bodywork - and couldn’t get them through as he couldn’t lever the top of the door too far without breaking the glass.
onto plan b, he then replaced the keys on the drivers seat, and then pressed the unlock button using the rod. The door’s open, the dogs are saved and all is well.
What a performance. The mechanic said he loves this sort of job as it requires ingenuity and he’s never had a failure to get in,
I’ll be seeing her again on Thursday, will her embarrassment have faded by then? I’ll remind her
