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If the window is cracked open, you can usually get a tool in that will allow you to unlock the car from the inside, as you would if you were inside the car. You
by djaychela 3y ago
If the window is cracked open, you can usually get a tool in that will allow you to unlock the car from the inside, as you would if you were inside the car. You can then get in without any noise.
Source: I used to hang out with people who knew car thieves when I was much younger (very early 90s). I knew the area's worst car thief by name, and he would tell you how skilled he was at any opportunity. He always had a thin piece of metal with a hooked end on him (fitted down his jacket arm) for this purpose.
- blincoln 3y agoThe window doesn't need to be cracked open to use a "slim jim", at least on older vehicles. I once accidentally locked myself out of the 2000 Honda Civic I used to own. The engine was still running, and I didn't want it to run out of gas or be late to work. I popped the driver's side door window trim off so I could see how the mechanism worked, and then improvised a "slim jim" out of some wire from my fence. It was disappointingly easy.
- XorNot 3y agoI mean you can also just the break the window, which is what happened to my rental in Hawaii so someone could steal the empty backpack inside. $350 I could've saved had I just left the windows open.
- HeyLaughingBoy 3y agoA friend of ours drove her mother's car here and accidentally locked the keys inside. Made a call to the local police station and a deputy showed up and opened the car in less than a minute.
- ferongr 3y agoThis isn't true for any modern car. Even my 2006 VAG shitbox has a double locking feature, where locking the doors from the outside disables the handles on the interior and the unlock switches.
- hotpotamus 3y agoWhat? Do they double as prisoner transport vehicles? I'd keep one of those safety hammers in my car if it had such a system.
- ferongr 3y agoIt's a pretty standard feature here in Europe. In any case, if you've locked the doors from the outside, there should be no reason for the internal handles or unlock switches to be operational.
- hotpotamus 3y agoWhat if there's someone in the car?
- ferongr 3y agoDon't leave a person in the car.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI mean, I tell myself not to lock my keys in my car, but it has happened on occasion. Do you think you'd be able to escape your car if locked in? I feel like I may be able to kick my way out or otherwise break a window, but I'm not completely sure of that.
- brokenmachine 3y agoYou use the headrest for that. Vehicle headrests are deliberately detachable so the metal prongs can be used to break the window.
- hotpotamus 3y agoI'm skeptical, but that may be the case in Europe. It does not seem to be in the US https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/car-headrests-emergency-escape/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/car-headrests-emergency-es...