charlesm17x
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...... is there anyway to open the doors on a 1985 944 2.5 8v lux without the key in my wisdom i locked them inside 
please dont laugh but.......
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charlesm17x
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Fair point yeah please PM me
944 man
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There isn't an 'easy' way that doesn't damage the vehicle. A slim jim type probe can be used to unlock the doors and I have seen someone achieve this on a 2000 Subaru immediately after I explained how, but youre more like to spend ages becoming frustrated if you don't know what youre doing, than being lucky as he was.
Best to remove the rear quarter glass (trim first, carefully) in order to gain access because the most that you risk damaging is the rubber seal.
It may be possible to open the door by pulling the button with a length of packing banding, but this depends on the year of the car in question. It only requires a little common sense and dexterity but later cars with led buttons aren't susceptible.
I am confident that anyone who steals cars isn't going to learn how to perform a 40+yr old trick on this closed forum!
Best to remove the rear quarter glass (trim first, carefully) in order to gain access because the most that you risk damaging is the rubber seal.
It may be possible to open the door by pulling the button with a length of packing banding, but this depends on the year of the car in question. It only requires a little common sense and dexterity but later cars with led buttons aren't susceptible.
I am confident that anyone who steals cars isn't going to learn how to perform a 40+yr old trick on this closed forum!
Fred Hindle
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I once locked the 944 with both sets of keys in the car with the engine running. MAJOR PANIC. Mine was a 1984 model and had the 'top hat' locking buttons. There is a depression in the b pillar that allowed me to get some nylon strapping in and after a bit of jiggling got it around the button and opened the door. After that I always made sure the second set of keys were on a hook in the garage if I was working on the car.
You can get 'Air Wedges' or 'Air Jacks' that can pry the top of the door so that something the thickness of a wire coathanger can be used.
Check ebay out 111279797270 for what I mean.
Cheers,
You can get 'Air Wedges' or 'Air Jacks' that can pry the top of the door so that something the thickness of a wire coathanger can be used.
Check ebay out 111279797270 for what I mean.
Cheers,
charlesm17x
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Thanks for all the advice guys i decided to lock them in the night before going on holiday so providing the car is still there when i get back ill be sure to give these ideas a bash
Not much help I'm afraid but at least I have sympathy and can relate a similar story.
In 1990 I did exactly the same with my 1986 oval dash Lux - except I was 80 miles away from home about to attend a hospital appointment at RNH Haslar, Porstmouth. I could see the keys as I closed to rear hatch and it all seemed to happen in slow motion but too late. Being in the RN at the time I had no option but to see the surgeon Commander first.
This was pre mobile phone days which made contact with anyone dammed hard using the nearest phone box, but only if you had enough change in your pocket.
Back to the car and I called the RAC, who at that time were hopeless, saying that they could not help and that I should call the nearest Porsche Centre. So another call to what is now the Porsche Centre Bournemouth who said all they could do was order me a key from Reading. Fat lot of use that was.
A passing groundsman at the hospital came by and we got chatting and he mentioned that one of his colleagues was an 'ex' car thief, having done time for taking the odd car or two. The chap was duly called and to his credit he tried with a 'Slim Jim' and even strip of bendy plastic but to no avail. He said that my car had special anti thief shrouds covering the door mechanism to prevent his way of unlocking the door. At least he tried and I began to realise why he was a 'ex' car thief!
There was nothing for but to eat humble pie and call my wife to collect the spare set of keys from home. It was around lunchtime and I had to wait until she finished work at 5pm at which time she had to leave Dorchester, go to our house in Weymoth, collect the keys and find her way to me in Porstmouth. She had never been there before and it was pre sat nav days too. Bless her that she managed to find her way through the back streets of Gosport to the hospital.
She arrived about 8pm and to her credit was quite calm as I was excepting severe bollocking for being such a plonker and making her day turn out as it did.
I let her drive the 944 home while I followed quite sheepishly in her 205 arriving home after 10pm, having stopped for a little bite in a pub near Ringwood.
A lesson learnt the had way which cost me very dearly on our next shopping trip to Bournemouth.......................[][&:]
In 1990 I did exactly the same with my 1986 oval dash Lux - except I was 80 miles away from home about to attend a hospital appointment at RNH Haslar, Porstmouth. I could see the keys as I closed to rear hatch and it all seemed to happen in slow motion but too late. Being in the RN at the time I had no option but to see the surgeon Commander first.
This was pre mobile phone days which made contact with anyone dammed hard using the nearest phone box, but only if you had enough change in your pocket.
Back to the car and I called the RAC, who at that time were hopeless, saying that they could not help and that I should call the nearest Porsche Centre. So another call to what is now the Porsche Centre Bournemouth who said all they could do was order me a key from Reading. Fat lot of use that was.
A passing groundsman at the hospital came by and we got chatting and he mentioned that one of his colleagues was an 'ex' car thief, having done time for taking the odd car or two. The chap was duly called and to his credit he tried with a 'Slim Jim' and even strip of bendy plastic but to no avail. He said that my car had special anti thief shrouds covering the door mechanism to prevent his way of unlocking the door. At least he tried and I began to realise why he was a 'ex' car thief!
There was nothing for but to eat humble pie and call my wife to collect the spare set of keys from home. It was around lunchtime and I had to wait until she finished work at 5pm at which time she had to leave Dorchester, go to our house in Weymoth, collect the keys and find her way to me in Porstmouth. She had never been there before and it was pre sat nav days too. Bless her that she managed to find her way through the back streets of Gosport to the hospital.
She arrived about 8pm and to her credit was quite calm as I was excepting severe bollocking for being such a plonker and making her day turn out as it did.
I let her drive the 944 home while I followed quite sheepishly in her 205 arriving home after 10pm, having stopped for a little bite in a pub near Ringwood.
A lesson learnt the had way which cost me very dearly on our next shopping trip to Bournemouth.......................[
][&:]
I shut mine in the boot over 100 miles from home. As Simon says above, I removed the rear quarter glass, its not too tricky to get out without damage - I removed the trim, then I think I used a store card to protect the paint and levered the rubber inwards with a screwdriver, the window could then be refitted once keys were recovered. Getting the trim back in was not so easy, so I left it for another day!
Spring loaded centre punch is how a thief gets in quickly for handbags etc.
Tony
Spring loaded centre punch is how a thief gets in quickly for handbags etc.
Tony
charlesm17x
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Hello
Just wanted to thank everyone for there suggestions after having the worst return to the UK possible company car broke down at airport car park took an hour for RAC to tell me it was broken then 3 hour wait for a hire car and recovery truck back to london anyway..... Got home got my bundle of spare keys and luckily there was one for the boot which after some forcing open'd the boot and was able to climb all 15 stone of my fatself into the car to get the keys YAY!
Have a good one everyone shes off for a full service tomorrow
Just wanted to thank everyone for there suggestions after having the worst return to the UK possible company car broke down at airport car park took an hour for RAC to tell me it was broken then 3 hour wait for a hire car and recovery truck back to london anyway..... Got home got my bundle of spare keys and luckily there was one for the boot which after some forcing open'd the boot and was able to climb all 15 stone of my fatself into the car to get the keys YAY!
Have a good one everyone shes off for a full service tomorrow
Fred Hindle
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Result!
Cheers,
Cheers,
Shark
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lol.. I had a cobalt blue s2 couple years ago, bought as a resto project. Neither door handle worked from the outside. I remember being at a petrol station and accidently let the door close.. lol, what a spectacle it must have been for passers by- my feet hanging the passenger rear window, I was stuck for a few mins.. anyway.. if you need to get in, then all you need do is remove a rear window - than ask a child to climb in!
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