[QUOTE=Jodi]
On my 2001 Honda 2 door coupe, there is only one way to lock the keys in the car and it takes some effort.
Exit driver’s side door. Lock car from outside with key (both doors lock). Go around to passenger door. Open door with key, toss key into car. Manually push lock button back down on door. Close passenger door.
I’ve never locked my keys in this car. Given my track record, that’s due solely to Honda’s moron-proofing, not my own efforts.
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I defeated Honda’s Moron Proof Locking System once in the 1990 Civic I used to have. Car was locked, I was putting groceries in the back (hatchback Si), the keys in my hand dropped into one of the grocery bags and I didn’t notice it until I walked around to the driver’s door to open it. $45.00 to the locksmith on wheels to unlock the car. I never did that again.
I wonder whether it would be technologically possible to design a system which can determine whether the keys are in fact outside the car’s interior confines (including the trunk).
Am I the only person in the world who keeps the keys in my hand EVERY TIME THEY COME OUT OF THE IGNITION until I’m out, all my stuff is out, and the doors are locked? I learned my lesson a long time ago, when I hopped out, put my keys in my jacket pocket, decided I didn’t need the jacket, tossed it back in, and slammed the locked door shut.
As for not being able to lock your keys in, my 2005 Corolla won’t let me lock the doors while the car is running, no matter how badly I want to let it sit and warm up a bit when it is THIRTY FRIGGIN’ DEGREES BELOW ZERO CELCIUS. They obviously don’t care that Canadians have spare car keys just for the purpose of letting their cars warm up without getting stolen. I mean, I understand and appreciate not letting you lock the door when you get out when it’s running, but when I use the spare key to try to manually lock the door, and it won’t allow it? You’ve gone too far, Toyota.
[QUOTE=Frank]
It’s impossible for me to lock the keys in if they’re in the ignition.
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Here’s a story. A few years ago, I went to visit my dad who lived outside a small town in the woods of East Texas. I parked outside his house and left my keys in the ignition - I had no reason to remove them.
Later that evening my wife went out to the car to get some stuff, and came back in and mentioned how each time she tried to lock it with the electric lock button, the lock-stem would pop back up.
I knew that this was a good thing, that the car was smart enough to unlock itself if the keys were in the ignition. But she was not to be thwarted in her mission. She had given up on the electric lock button and had simply pushed the lock stem down manually. Unfortunately, this worked.
So the next morning we got to find the nearest locksmith, which turned out to be in a town 40 miles away, and he charged his round-trip travel time at the Sunday rate.
Anyway, it reminded me of the expression, which my wife didn’t appreciate, that “it’s hard to design something to be foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.”
[QUOTE=fachverwirrt]
I also can’t lock my keys in the car (2003 Civic). It is, however, perfectly possible to lock them in the trunk.
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I can’t do that either - it’s all part of the central locking; the only ways to lock the car are (all dependent on all five doors shut):
-From the inside, by pressing a button on the dashboard
-From the outside, with the key in one of the door locks
-From inside or outside, using the remote button on the key
I could leave the window open a crack and post them back through after locking it, if that helps…
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
You can only lock the car with the key, and it won’t lock unless all the doors are shut.
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Try this: park your car, lock the three passenger doors, get out holding your door open, hold the handle in the ‘open’ position, lock the door, throw your keys into the car, shut the door while continying to hold the handle in the ‘open’ position, release. Now, stand back and marvel at how you’ve just done the impossible.
[QUOTE=Spezza]
Try this: park your car, lock the three passenger doors, get out holding your door open, hold the handle in the ‘open’ position, lock the door, throw your keys into the car, shut the door while continying to hold the handle in the ‘open’ position, release. Now, stand back and marvel at how you’ve just done the impossible.
Don’t ask why I know this.
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Nope. it isn’t possible to lock any door while any other door remains open. The doors aren’t independently lockable.
I locked my keys in once really late, ont far from home. I couldn’t get my spare keys brought by my family because t/he/y were drunk. I walked to the only open business, a nice hotel. I hadn’t been in one since I was a kid and was sort of marveling at the splendor. I explained I wasn’t a guest, but asked the receptionist (a young woman) they had a slim-jim, which they didn’t so they called a cab for me. I stood looking around and she tried to get me to take a piece of fresh fruit to eat. When a cab came for another female employee, she insisted I take it, first. I was embarrassed to go ahead of a woman but she really insisted.
At some point in the cab I realized that instead of a “slim-jim” I had mistakenly asked for a “black-jack.” I wondered a bit, if they had thought I arrived in the middle of the night asking for a weapon and if that’s why they were so deferential. Of course, it could have just been their usual sort of service.
[QUOTE=mambocrow]
I defeated Honda’s Moron Proof Locking System once in the 1990 Civic I used to have. Car was locked, I was putting groceries in the back (hatchback Si), the keys in my hand dropped into one of the grocery bags and I didn’t notice it until I walked around to the driver’s door to open it. $45.00 to the locksmith on wheels to unlock the car. I never did that again.
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Well, sure, I could lock the keys in the trunk, but only a complete moron would do that.
[QUOTE=riker1384]
At some point in the cab I realized that instead of a “slim-jim” I had mistakenly asked for a “black-jack.” I wondered a bit, if they had thought I arrived in the middle of the night asking for a weapon and if that’s why they were so deferential.
[/QUOTE] Actually, I don’t see how a preserved meat stick or a couple of cards adding up to 21 would help you in that situation.
This is one of the benefits of OnStar, just call them up and they’ll unlock it for you remotely. Unfortunately, it costs a couple of hundred bucks a year. I guess if you did it a lot…
[QUOTE=mambocrow]
Hondas use the same system. You can’t lock the driver’s door without a key. It’s a good idea and I wonder why all car manufacturers don’t do the same.
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Um…I have a 2003 Honda Civic, and I can lock the driver’s door without a key. If you hold the handle (outside) up, you can press down the lock on the inside of the door. Then just shut the door…ta da! Locked without the key.
I locked my keys in the car once … with the engine running … after locking the house door which was on the same keyring.
Called my (now ex-) husband at work and told him what I had done and asked if he could come home and unlock my car. On the phone, he repeated what I said happened in front of his co-workers. All I could hear were the guffaws in the background…"she did WHAT??? bwaahaaahaaaa.
‘Estate’ cars are something like station wagons (except smaller, but that’s generally true of most vehicles anyway)
‘Hatchback’ are more or less normal-shaped cars where the rear end opens all as one, including the rear window
‘Saloon’ cars are normal cars with a smaller opening into the boot(trunk) that opens independently of the window.
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Estate = Station wagon Any station wagon. Any Volvo wagon is called an estate in Jolly ole
Hatchback = Hatchback
Saloon = Sedan
[QUOTE=Kairos]
Um…I have a 2003 Honda Civic, and I can lock the driver’s door without a key. If you hold the handle (outside) up, you can press down the lock on the inside of the door. Then just shut the door…ta da! Locked without the key.
Maybe I shouldn’t have told you all that. :smack:
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Acura Integra owner… that’s exactly the situation with my car, and I have done it several times. I always lock the door that way, never with the key. Which is why I’ve locked myself out of my car umpteen time, and it became logical to join AAA about 5 years ago…
I used to do vehicle unlocks as part of my job. If you habitually lock your keys in your car, I suggest getting a Ford of some sort. I tell ya, those things are so easy to unlock with a slim-jim/coat hanger/just by looking at it.
[QUOTE=Captain_C]
I used to do vehicle unlocks as part of my job. If you habitually lock your keys in your car, I suggest getting a Ford of some sort. I tell ya, those things are so easy to unlock with a slim-jim/coat hanger/just by looking at it.
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Or they could just tie a key somewhere underneath their car.
Actually, I don’t see how a preserved meat stick or a couple of cards adding up to 21 would help you in that situation. 