Ever locked yourself out your car?

Yes. It was at a golf course in Northamptonshire and I lived some 60 miles away. The RAC man couldn't get into it so I had to call a mate, who came and picked me up, to drive me home then back again with my spare key.

I had had a good round of golf so I wasn't too bothered.
 
I was working in a police station this week, some of the officers who was on night duty locked a squad car with the keys inside it, two other officers then had to try and break in, one asked the other if they had any car thieves in custody, they eventually got it opened using a wrecking bar to prise the door and a coat hanger to fish out the keys.
 
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Yep, I did it once on an old Senator A

Started the car up one morning, when it was quite a cold morning.
Jumped out to scrape the ice off the windows, closed the door & the central locking which was air powered
on these old cars had frozen,locking the door behind me. :D

Fortunatly, cars back then were easy tro get into, so it took me all of 2 mins to break in !!
 
Many years ago my Toyota locked itself with the motor running, key in the ignition and our baby daughter locked inside. Luckily she was fast asleep and completely unaware coupled with the fact that the guys from the local Toyota garage came out to us within minutes and unlocked it.

My only other near miss was my old Fiat which I amanged to leave in the local car park, locked and keys in my bag but with the engine still running. Didn't realise until I got back over an hour later. The key had worn which enabled me to remove it with the engine running.
 
[TW]Fox;16009738 said:
2 Remote keys, a Valet key, a credit card key, and a plastic spare.
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Cool, did you get those with the car when you first got it? or aquire those later?
 
Mate did a similar thing yesterday.

Dropped his keys in the boot of his MX5 when putting stuff in, closed the boot and the car locked itself. His spare keys at his Dad's in Cardiff.

Rang up Mazda and had to wait 4 hours for a bloke to come and effectively break into his car!

Was rather funny to watch though. :D
 
Luckily my car (a Mini) can't be locked without the keys, so it's impossible to lock the keys in. All I have to worry about is losing the key, but I have a spare key and it's not exactly hard to get to it in Jersey.
 
lbratch said:
Luckily my car (a Mini) can't be locked without the keys, so it's impossible to lock the keys in. All I have to worry about is losing the key, but I have a spare key and it's not exactly hard to get to it in Jersey.
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So what happens if you lock the car and then close the boot with the keys in?
 
[TW]Fox;16009932 said:
So what happens if you lock the car and then close the boot with the keys in?
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Then you open the boot and take the keys out. Like I said you can't lock it without the keys.
 
Not managed to lock myself out of a car but I used to own a Vauxhall Carlton GSi 24v that had a bizzare central locking system that sometimes locked us in the car. I recall one morning dropping the wife off at the railway station to go to her work and the car had locked us in. She had to climb out the passenger window. Wasn't best pleased. :p

We attend a lot of these in my line of work, usually when a parent has locked their kid in the car by mistake. Gaffer tape or clingfilm/Fablon and a window punch on a quarterlight is usually the method of entry. ;)
 
Not long ago one of my suppliers drove down to deliver some stock - he'd borrowed a car from this friend the day before.

The night before he damaged one of the locks when it was frozen, so that didn't work anymore. The tarmac outside our office was icy - so when he stopped, bumped into the unit next door's car.

Got out the car, closed the door then realised he'd locked himself out :p

We tried breaking into the car for a bit, then ended up smashing one of the windows ... I don't think his friend was too happy when he got the car back !
 
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