Breaking In To My Xr6t

[mickq]

Hey all,

I managed to lock my keys in the boot a couple of weekends ago. I was down the coast, and my car blocking my parents car in the drive just as we were packing up to go home.....Mum wasnt impressed.....

<edit> "and so I decided to try to get in myself...and 7 minutes later I was in". <edit>

Et voila, its open, and my parents were very impressed with me

What disappoints me is that it was no more difficult to break into than 2 late 1970's-early 80's Honda's I used to drive 10-15 years ago. Sure it would be harder to steal the whole car as starting it is near enough to impossible, but they can fleece eveything inside it with ease - and Ive seen cars lhave their seats and parts of the interior stripped in busy shopping centres!

that's pretty disappointing. Its possible to have a secure car that can still be broken in by those with the know or the tools (Jaguars are pretty good) but I am really surprised the door lock on this car was that easy. Obviously Ford decided to forget about interior security and rely completely on trying to stop full car theft via a key with embedded electronic security features.

Edited 25/07/06 01:37 PM by GlennAUII

[phantomchic]

I agree

that's a bit scarey in this day and age

shazzy

[mickq]

Hey Glenn, if you want to edit it for that reason, fine, but at least ENSURE WHAT YOU LEAVE MAKES SOME SENSE.

Read it from the start until you get to the

Does that make sense to you?

In the effort to reduce the chance someone might copy what I did, you left the whole post totally nonsensical and effectively useless.

You could at least have taken the time to edit it properly, given I took the time to write it properly. There would not have been any problem if you had written a shortened version such as "and so I decided to try to get in myself...and 7 minutes later I was in". That doesnt give anything away to anybody except it DOES convey the main thing that concerned me and the main reason I created this thread.

A little more care with your editing next time, eh?

I hope you have the sense to leave this part here, and hold off pressing that edit button...

[veczar]

I agree taking the details away but it didn't make a lot of sense. Not hard to find out either just get a Ford guy to show you his tool and hes in in 1 min! what about the secure glovebox

[JBomb3000]

I agree 

that's a bit scarey in this day and age 

shazzy

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You think that's scary, a work mate locked the keys in one of our 2001 model Toyota Hilux's and jokeingly said I wonder if any of the keys from the other hilux's would open it. So we tried, and it did . No way it would start it though we thought. WRONG . Once we had the keys out we tried the reverse on the other ute and same thing, able to both unlock and start it.

Not very impresive for a 2001 model. How about a big clap for Toyota

[thebrunks]

I can't see what all the fuss is, locks only keep honest thieves out.

It's a car, not a safe!

A brick is the quickest way to get into it...lol

[Chooka]

I can't see what all the fuss is, locks only keep honest thieves out.

It's a car, not a safe!

A brick is the quickest way to get into it...lol

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Not a truer word has been spoken!

Chooka

[Fat-Tony]

I happen to know that keys for a ford courier are interchagable, will open the doors, and even crank the engine over but if its the wrong key it will not start. though its not always the case. Ohhh and my last car, jeep wrangler, soft top with zipers on the side lol that was so secure

[rs2000]

You think that's scary, a work mate locked the keys in one of our 2001 model Toyota Hilux's and jokeingly said I wonder if any of the keys from the other hilux's would open it. So we tried, and it did . No way it would start it though we thought. WRONG . Once we had the keys out we tried the reverse on the other ute and same thing, able to both unlock and start it.

Not very impresive for a 2001 model. How about a big clap for Toyota

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it's fairly common for toyota to have duplicate keys. have a look at the keys and they will have the same key numbers stamped..

[GlennAUII]

Hey Glenn, if you want to edit it for that reason, fine, but at least ENSURE WHAT YOU LEAVE MAKES SOME SENSE.

Read it from the start until you get to the

Does that make sense to you?

In the effort to reduce the chance someone might copy what I did, you left the whole post totally nonsensical and effectively useless.

You could at least have taken the time to edit it properly, given I took the time to write it properly. There would not have been any problem if you had written a shortened version such as "and so I decided to try to get in myself...and 7 minutes later I was in". That doesnt give anything away to anybody except it DOES convey the main thing that concerned me and the main reason I created this thread.

A little more care with your editing next time, eh?

I hope you have the sense to leave this part here, and hold off pressing that edit button...

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Edit it to make sense yourself. I just removed the stuff that said how to break into a falcon which was the part I had a problem with. I won't put words in your mouth to make the post make sense.