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Ninehigh - 6/9/11 at 05:05 PM

Stepson's just broke into our car with a tent peg and NO prior knowledge of how to do it...

scootz - 6/9/11 at 05:07 PM

That's nothing... I can do it with a brick and I've never been trained as a brickie!

Daddylonglegs - 6/9/11 at 05:17 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scootz
That's nothing... I can do it with a brick and I've never been trained as a brickie!


PMSL!!!

Ninehigh - 6/9/11 at 05:23 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scootz
That's nothing... I can do it with a brick and I've never been trained as a brickie!


Try doing it without breaking the glass!

ChrisW - 6/9/11 at 05:30 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
....NO prior knowledge of how to do it...


Are you sure about that??

Chris

Triton - 6/9/11 at 05:32 PM

Can be done with a half a tennis ball apparently and I hate tennis

avagolen - 6/9/11 at 05:51 PM

The question is 'What Car'

kit or tin top.

I could break into my cortina Mk 1 with a lolly stick!

Len.

Thinking about it - 6/9/11 at 06:18 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Ninehigh
Stepson's just broke into our car with a tent peg and NO prior knowledge of how to do it...


Sounds like a MK 1 Escort

jollygreengiant - 6/9/11 at 06:21 PM

quote:
Originally posted by avagolen
The question is 'What Car'

kit or tin top.

I could break into my cortina Mk 1 with a lolly stick!

Len.

I used a girl-friends hair grip one day when I lost the keys to my mk1 cortina.

Gob smacked a copper one day when I took about 15 seconds to get into a Montego with just a length of 10mm parcel/pallet strapping. The plod had spent about 2 hours trying different keys and devices.

NeilP - 6/9/11 at 06:21 PM

I locked myself out of an Escort mkII once but got let back in by a mate using the key to his Rover 200!...

Simon - 6/9/11 at 07:07 PM

I got my old mini home after key had broke, hotwiring it using a coke can ringpull

ATB

Simon

morcus - 6/9/11 at 07:30 PM

My dad once stole a Granada by accident, his key worked and it was the same colour. He tought it sounded wrong so he stopped, still in the same car park and the owner came running at him. He also claims that in the early days of remote locking that the bloke down the street had it on his rover but that it also opened ours, which didn't have a remote.

Why was he breaking in, if I got caught I'd claim it was the first time, like when you get caught smoking or drinking.

Ninehigh - 6/9/11 at 07:47 PM

He was breaking in because he'd locked the keys in, and it is a (fairly) modern tintop. Tbh not what I was expecting from a car of that age...

Stott - 6/9/11 at 09:19 PM

Mk1 nova was special, you could get in with a 12" rule then pull the hazard switch out and plug it in upside down and all the ignition lights would come on for you, seriously!

SteveWalker - 6/9/11 at 09:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by jollygreengiant
quote:
Originally posted by avagolen
The question is 'What Car'

kit or tin top.

I could break into my cortina Mk 1 with a lolly stick!

Len.

I used a girl-friends hair grip one day when I lost the keys to my mk1 cortina.

Gob smacked a copper one day when I took about 15 seconds to get into a Montego with just a length of 10mm parcel/pallet strapping. The plod had spent about 2 hours trying different keys and devices.


Was that doubled, slid between the door seal and the pillar and then one side slid to curl it round to pull the locking knob? Years ago, someone in a Cortina blocked me in when I was on a tight deadline - I was parked nose on to a fence and between two other cars, he parked across the back of all three cars. At some stage he will have returned and found his car all locked up, twenty-feet away at a silly angle.

SteveW

avagolen - 7/9/11 at 11:13 AM

Lolly stick just pushed into the door lock and turned.

jossey - 7/9/11 at 11:33 AM

tennis ball only worked on mk3 escort and was very hard to do it.

best way was use the KEY...

coozer - 7/9/11 at 12:31 PM

Good thump in the middle of the bumper on a Mk1 Mondoe.. hey presto, doors unlock.. too hard mind and the airbag goes off as well

Agriv8 - 7/9/11 at 12:43 PM

quote:
Originally posted by jollygreengiant
quote:
Originally posted by avagolen
The question is 'What Car'

kit or tin top.

I could break into my cortina Mk 1 with a lolly stick!

Len.

I used a girl-friends hair grip one day when I lost the keys to my mk1 cortina.

Gob smacked a copper one day when I took about 15 seconds to get into a Montego with just a length of 10mm parcel/pallet strapping. The plod had spent about 2 hours trying different keys and devices.


used to work on a lot of cars with pop up door locks used to play a trick (while on nights) in works secure car park at work moving the team leaders car when he nodded of fun days

Regards

Agriv8

jollygreengiant - 13/9/11 at 09:27 AM

quote:
Originally posted by SteveWalker
quote:
Originally posted by jollygreengiant
quote:
Originally posted by avagolen
The question is 'What Car'

kit or tin top.

I could break into my cortina Mk 1 with a lolly stick!

Len.

I used a girl-friends hair grip one day when I lost the keys to my mk1 cortina.

Gob smacked a copper one day when I took about 15 seconds to get into a Montego with just a length of 10mm parcel/pallet strapping. The plod had spent about 2 hours trying different keys and devices.


Was that doubled, slid between the door seal and the pillar and then one side slid to curl it round to pull the locking knob? Years ago, someone in a Cortina blocked me in when I was on a tight deadline - I was parked nose on to a fence and between two other cars, he parked across the back of all three cars. At some stage he will have returned and found his car all locked up, twenty-feet away at a silly angle.

SteveW


Yep.

Neville Jones - 13/9/11 at 09:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by morcus
My dad once stole a Granada by accident, his key worked and it was the same colour. He tought it sounded wrong so he


Did the same with the wifes Fiesta a while back, in the hospital car park. I walked up to what I thought was the right car, unlocked the door, got in, and had to move the seat,(that's odd, I thought), put the key in and started it, when I got the feeling something was not quite right. Checked the glovebox, then got out and looked at the no. plate.

Mine was a few cars up the line!

Turns out there was only 10 different keys for the model in question! Apparently, a Ford habit for a great number of years. Luckily, I wasn't seen.

Cheers,
Nev.