Re: Break-ins due to window/lock exploit
"WooHoo2You" <no@email.com> wrote in message
news:AHcje.4748$uR4.1456@newsread2.news.atl.earthl ink.net...
>I do not know if they used a slim jim. I do know that the pressed the
>window down almost an inch, and caused damage to the rubber weathering
>strips that seal the top section of the glass to the door's frame.
>
That sounds like the way the road service guy opened my son's '89 Accord LXi
when he locked the keys in it. No go with the slim jim - there was just
nothing to grab that would move the direction he needed to go to unlock the
door. He next tried to push the driver's window down, but just couldn't get
the gap he needed without damaging something. Then he got a pair of padded
pry bars and a pair of padded wooden wedges out and worked at making a gap
between the door and the body at the top rear corner of the driver's door.
About 5 minutes of that opened a gap he could get a stiff wire in and flip
the lock lever. That guy earned his $35, I'll tell you!
(Probably all cars can be opened that way, I'm guessing.)
Mike
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