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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:27 am

help please, my friends put his keys in the ignition and shut the door and locked them inside the car ,trying not to laugh,any way of opening without smashing the window
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:32 am

windscreen out is easiest/cheapest way ! :)
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:44 am

Pull the cover tab off the bottom of the screen and remove the locking strip and pull the windscreen out. Easy to do
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 12:16 pm

Your friend, riiiiiight!
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 12:40 pm

thanks ,never thought about windscreen,il ring him now and hopefully he wont have smashed a window
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 2:54 pm

E30s have mushroom headed locking buttons inside the car. As long as it's not dead locked, pull out the top corner of the window frame, insert a small wedge to keep it out, and drop a suitably bent piece of stiff wire down inside, hook the pin, and pull it up.
The corner of the window frame can easily be bent back into place when the door is open.
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 6:40 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:E30s have mushroom headed locking buttons inside the car. As long as it's not dead locked, pull out the top corner of the window frame, insert a small wedge to keep it out, and drop a suitably bent piece of stiff wire down inside, hook the pin, and pull it up.
The corner of the window frame can easily be bent back into place when the door is open.
Nationally known E30 nicking techniques.

Cheers for the reminder folks :D
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 9:07 pm

i locked my keys in the boot last week, used a hangar in the way mentioned, and got it open...

needless to say i now deadlock it wherever i go,
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 10:54 pm

anyone know a where to get non-mushroom replacements?.....preferably not chrome with an ///M symbol
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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 10:56 pm

pukar wrote:anyone know a where to get non-mushroom replacements?.....preferably not chrome with an ///M symbol
From a convertible.

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Post Sun Mar 08, 2015 11:53 pm

Brianmoooore wrote:E30s have mushroom headed locking buttons inside the car. As long as it's not dead locked, pull out the top corner of the window frame, insert a small wedge to keep it out, and drop a suitably bent piece of stiff wire down inside, hook the pin, and pull it up.
The corner of the window frame can easily be bent back into place when the door is open.
Plastic strapping works well too :D

Won't bent the door frame so much either.
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