Locked out / car stuck

[James H]

The battery has died on my Clio as its been sat in the garage for a while and the passenger door with the manual lock is about 5cm away from the garage wall. The handbrake is on.

How do I break into my own car / release the handbrake / pop the bonnet??

 

[JB21]

Could secure a trolley jack underneath and try and pull it out a cm or so to get the key in, not the safest way I know...

 

[James H]

Could secure a trolley jack underneath and try and pull it out a cm or so to get the key in, not the safest way I know...

I can get the key in and unlock the door, but just can't get in the door. I was hoping it would open the whole car.

 

[Knuckles]

Jack it up, remove the handbrake cable to release the handbrake and very carefully wheel it back enough to get in?

Or it there no room for that?

Or, open the passenger door as much as you can and use a long hook on a stick to pull the bonnet catch?

 

[James H]

Jack it up, remove the handbrake cable to release the handbrake and very carefully wheel it back enough to get in?

Or it there no room for that?

It's tight. If I push it forward out the garage it's a quick downhill, across the road and into the neighbours fence too [emoji23] guess I could get someone to help me ease it out.

How easy is removing the handbrake cable? Cars already jacked up.

 

[JamesBryan]

Jack it up on the rear beam and wheel it out.

Potentially dangerous.

 

[Stay Puft]

Get a stick and somehow press the unlock doors button on dash?

 

[JamesBryan]

Get a stick and somehow press the unlock doors button on dash?

Won't work if the battery is dead.

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

If you're good, you can get onto the alternator with jump leads from another battery, which should give you enough juice to be able to use the keyfob..

 

[Typhoon]

This actually has me howling! What a dilemma!

 

[JamesBryan]

This actually has me howling! What a dilemma!

Tbh i did lol a bit too and thought to myself 'i'm glad it isn't me'

The alternator method can work too as TEG says.

 

[James H]

This actually has me howling! What a dilemma!

Luckily I don't need it any time soon. You couldn't have written it though.

 

[JamesBryan]

Luckily I don't need it any time soon. You couldn't have written it though.

It's almost as good as my mates situation earlier this year when he decided to break his Ph1 track car for parts.

Parks it right up againt a fence front first. Then sells the wheels and suspension leaving it with no means of moving the thing 😂

 

[Typhoon]

Get a couple of lifting straps and a couple of mates who have had sugar on their cornflakes and just pivot it slightly.

 

[Coops Mk1]

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/wd4...MIuI-p_Y601wIVAkkYCh3GawfgEAQYAiABEgL8ePD_BwE

 

[Knuckles]

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/wd4...MIuI-p_Y601wIVAkkYCh3GawfgEAQYAiABEgL8ePD_BwE

Good shout!

 

[James H]

https://www.sgs-engineering.com/wd4...MIuI-p_Y601wIVAkkYCh3GawfgEAQYAiABEgL8ePD_BwE

I should have said earlier, only 2 of the wheels are off the ground at the moment.

 

[Andy_con]

jack each wheel up and put skates under each wheel, then you can move as you please

 

[imprezaworks]

Lift it up from the rear and scoutch it over. Easy.

 

[Pauleds]

I took lower front bumper off (separated from the grill), popped the bonnet with a long thin screwdriver and then put charger/jump leads on it.

 

[Pistachio]

Remove enough bricks from garage wall to open door

 

[James H]

Finally got some time today to look at this...

I thought it could be a dead key fob battery as well so I changed it but the little light still flashes red. Does the key know my cars dead too? [emoji23]

What do I need to poke from underneath to open the bonnet?

 

[James H]

So happy to see this! Managed to pull the lever with a pool cue and an Alan key taped to the end.

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

Flol

I fvcking hate cars!

 

[JamesBryan]

Genius 😂

 

[James H]

Just popped by halfords with the battery and it read 2.7 volts so I think it's new battery time. Bosch ones look like £80 - 35% today on ECP but might see if there's a bigger weekend discount code coming soon

 

[imprezaworks]

About £45-50 online

 

[James H]

About £45-50 online

If that's the best I'll find then I'll go for it then. Shame I didn't get it over black Friday/cyber Monday.

 

[Mr Plums]

Car looks great, thats just my luck tho, things like this happen to me all the time, and the more careful i am, the more stupid stuff tends to happen.

 

[Ex-User (19928)]

Who makes a garage that tight?????? I hate house builders lol.

 

[James H]

Went and got a new Bosch S4 this morning, got it in the car just now and all is good again! Took it for a drive round the block too just to blow some cobwebs off. Pic for proof that it made it out the garage...

 

[Coops Mk1]

good work, now straighten that numberplate!

 

[James H]

good work, now straighten that numberplate!

Haha got a pressed one in the shed I need to get on. And the rear wiper needs adjusting if you're looking for wonky things!

 

[Coops Mk1]

and the drivers side tailpipe ;-)

 

[James H]

FFS I give up.

Actually plan to order a block of poly bush and drill my own holes in it for the 3 hangars

 

[imprezaworks]

Ha ha

 

[Coops Mk1]

hehe!

 

[bashracing]

Reminded me of when I popped a knacker through the base a plastic chair on holiday and couldn’t move

 

[Usr117063]

So happy to see this! Managed to pull the lever with a pool cue and an Alan key taped to the end.View attachment 1347220

Great intuitive! I did something similar like this once but it was because my dad and I were locked out, the keys were on a small ledge about 1.5 metres from the front door, I walked over to the carpark and found a few sticks and some rubber bands that the postman had thrown away, made some hooks with the twigs and bands to extend them and hooked the keys through the letter box. In achieving that as a 12 year old, I wouldnt like to know what a determined pikey would of been able to do if he knew they were there