Things I learned today

[andygates]

1: When you lock your keys in your vehicle, the spares will be at least five hundred miles away.

2: You can spend two hours trying to force the lock on a vehicle in a supermarket car park. The only interference you will get is a cheerful crusty offering to help.

3) Breaking a side window takes more force than you might think, but makes less noise than you might think. Not kersmash, but thud-choff. The bits end up everywhere.

That felt rather good for something so ungood. Goes alongside my hotwiring cherry. Now, where's my bin-bag and gaffer tape, and that part-finder website? A '92 Mazda van window glass can't be that expensive...

Comments

[gedhrel.livejournal.com]

Locked my keys in the millenium fiat once. Never tried it before, but took 10 seconds to pop the lock up by sliding a PCI slot blanking plate down by the window and hooking the lock up. (It was marginally easier than "hotwiring" it, which involved reaching under the steering column and counterrotating the ignition barrel.)

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Yup, tried that. Tried getting a wire in to flick the lock tab up, too. Alas in the van they're in creative locations and have annoying anti-thief features like being smooth and sloping upward. The buggers. Still, driving along with a bin-bag with a big gaffer-tape X across it in the passenger window does seem to ooze menace.

[ravenbait.livejournal.com]

Numpty.

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Your warmth and fuzzitude are matched only by my competence.

But the brick was fun.