Re: [DML] Locked out of car!! Keys inside. Anyway to get in???

["therealdmcvegas" <dmcvegas@xxxxxxx>]

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Michael Paine" <mpaine@xxxx> wrote:
> I was always thinking that you couldn't lock the keys inside... if 
> the door is open you would have to reach up to push the lock
> button, almost quite deliberately. can't lock with remote if there 
>is no power... can't lock with key from out side if the key is 
> inside... how did this happen again??? 
> 
> I too am interesting in the answer as well.

Yes, you would have to push the lock deliberatly in order for this to 
occur. I had someone innocently enough do this to my car the first 
time they rode in it, and got out. It will jam the lock into place, 
and it take a little patience working with your key to get the lock 
open.

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jim Strickland <ihaveanaccount@xxxx> 
wrote:
> I heard a clever way of unlocking the doors a few weeks/months 
> ago... The message (which evades me now) says that hitting the 
fibreglass just in front of the inertia switch (to the rear of the
> driver's wheel) can make the inertia switch trip.  The switch cuts
> the ground to the fuel pump, but also disengages the door locks as
> a sort of "safety feature".

I had originaly thought of this a couple of years back, and don't 
know if it will really work. I've no idea of the exact circuit design 
inside the intertia switch, so if power from the fuel pump is used to 
trip the locks, then that rules this out for the most part. In any 
case, you would need one hell of a jolt to get that ball to jump up 
and hit the plunger. I've hit pot holes, speed bumps, and even sent 
my car airborn at one point, and I've never tripped that inertia 
switch. It's wiggled it's way up, but never fully disengaged. Damage 
would 'prolly result first, before you'd trip it.

However, I didn't think of pushing out the right vent on the engine 
cover to access the jump point (I was thinking of jacking up the car, 
or pulling hard enough to dislocate the latch from the engine cover). 
If the door was locked, and then closed, there's a pretty good chance 
that the lock is jammed. And if this is the case, applying 12V to the 
jump post would power the lock module, and cause it to go into 
it's "panic mode", and it would start locking/unlocking the doors by 
kicking the solenoids back and forth. Once the opposire door unlocks, 
pull power from the post, open door, and retrieve key. Viola!

That is of course as Jim says, and still assuming that your Power 
Door Locks are in proper functioning order.

-Robert
vin 6585 "X"




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