Where do you keep your spare car key?

Thats interesting Brian. My GQ is unlockable without the key.

How so Willem??

Brian

If one locks the drivers door and then you shut it, the doorlock pin pops back up.

Must be an upmarket model......LOL

LOL.... clever Willem!!

what happens if you have your doors locked with your boot open then put your keys in the boot and close it?

I thought my old vr commondore was the same as yours and i couldn't lock my keys in it untill one day we were out at a town called Bruce in the flinders ranges and a mate of mine needed my jack. so i open the boot with the keys, put the keys on the floor, get the jack and close the boot. took the raa bloke 4 hours to get to us and 10 mins to get the boot open.

My truck has barn doors and unless I leave the keys inside and then physically lock the door then it is locked.

Interesting subject.....so I went out into the cold and checked that if the passenger leans over and locks the drivers door, then depresses the door lock pin on the passengers door and shuts it....then the whole vehicle is locked.

Having lived in Alice Springs where the motto is 'Lock it or lose it' I never leave my keys in the vehicle. Never. Even if stopped for a short while. If I leave the vehicle running I can't lock my door anyway.

Still, we are prone to Senior Moments..........LOL

My truck obviosly has barn doors also, and a cargo barrier! My youngest son locked the FRONT doors (all 4) one time but thankfully the barn doors were still unlocked, but even so it was a 15 minute job to get the lock buttons up!!! From memory we only had an umbrella in the car at the time to use as a lock "pick"....

When I bought the GQ I was told by a fairly reputable source..... (Someone here on EO I think) that GQ's were easy to steal thanks to an "un-protected" locking mechanism, so I made metal covers to fit over the mechanism in the door so it can't be broken into that way...... but a pain when one of us (SWMBO) locks the keys in......

Hi Brian

Thanks for that. I'll look at it as soon as I can. It's prol'y easier to "pop" the lock than to pull the trim off and add security.

Cheers
Andy

No worries mate.... have a good night!

Our old '91 Maverick (GQ) was the same Willem, to lock the doors you had to leave the back door open reach in and around and push down the front lock then close the back door all closed. Of course you could also use the key in the lock and do the lot, I love central locking.

I nearly went and got my whoteboard pen, that I write notes on the car window with, and wrote a note to the driver telling them of their folly. But I managed to restrain myself :)

Andy,
No problems.... I got the idea off someone here at EO I think..... a couple of years back! So I am happy to share it. I got told GQ's are easy to break into, using the coat hanger down the sill between window outer rubber and glass to hook the lock rods up.

I took the door inside panels off, had a look up the inside towards the lock mech where there are some metal rods that work the lock/handle mech. Using cardboard as a template I made covers out of sheet metal, and then unscrewed the nuts that hold the whole mech in place and put the cover over the lot, securing them with the nuts. Very simple and very effective.

Hope this helps.

Wallet also. Only need one key to get in. Windows are costly

Marty

Yeah I had to smash a window many years ago. Got out to fix a flat tyre in the middle of nowhere, locked myself out with the engine running....idiot!

If someone finds your wallet, they just need to go to your address, and then drive the car away. :-)

mike

yes Ray very apt that number plate

"Mines in my wallet, my wallet is always in my pocket and my pocket is attached to my strides"....

not married?...:)))))

Mines in my wallet, my wallet is always in my pocket and my pocket is attached to my strides.....OK..and your srtides are hangin over the end of the bed!!!!

hahah If I had a 80series I would be wanting someone to nick it jajajajaja German giggling heheheh

I USED to have 2 keys for the Nissan, only one now

"I USED to have 2 keys for the Nissan, only one now"
Bonz, are you saying that you gave one key of the Nissan away and they still won't take it.
That's Ego deflating.

I am not saying anything Des Marie had it and then she didnt have it but she didnt lose it, and its not lose anyway its just temporarily inaccessable

Ours is there too Laura, at home. Got a prescribed hook for it. Judith Kempen cow painting.

Hmmm I recall that thread, I also recall someone else having to unpack the camper cause the keys were in the p[ocket of the jeans beside the mattress hehehe

I keep mine at home around town, but when we go away it goes with us (I won't say where!).

It's bloody good thing too, I went for a dive off a surf cat out in the ocean to untangle some rope from the deep sea rudders while we were in Margaret river, discovered shortly after climbing back aboard that my key's AND imobilsor remote where still in my pocket!! :-O

Good thing we had the spare!

I did a REALLY REALLY REALLY DUMB thing yesterday though!! I'd been playing around with my air horns, and had moved some of the truppets on the chasis rails. Anyway, I dropped my boy at school and had my 18month old girl in the car. I got home and had noticed the horns banging (they had come loose), so I turned the engine off and took Steph's seatbelt off (she absolutally LOVES running around inside the car, she goes bananans!! Grabs the steering wheel pretends she's driving etc, she's completely safe as she can't reach the handbrake on the dash and it's an auto that you cannot take out of park unless you put your foot on the brake at the same time). So I let her play around in the car, left the key's in the ignition, hoped out and quickly climbed under the car to inspect the noise.

Suddenly I here ... CHIRP!

I stopped dead in my tracks and thought, oh crap, the little buggers worked out how to push the imobilsor button...

then I thought: Oh bugger, she's locked herself in.

then I thought: I'll just grab the spare keys from inside and unlock the door in a second.

then I though: OMFG I havn't unlocked the house yet! THE HOUSE KEYS ARE IN THE CAR!

So I scooted out from under the car and ran around to the driver door where she was in the car laughing at me, having a ball! Then I notice that I hadn't completly latched the drives door. I pushed it and the lock popped up and I was IN!

PHHHHEEEWWWW!! Man I felt dumb! Imagine calling the missus and asking her to come home from work to that I could get her daughter out of the car! :-| I don't think she would have been impressed!

Yep. A spare key kept at home is about as handy as half a scissor.