Posted: 6/18/2010 11:44:53 PM EDT
| Anyone here have any experience with auto lockouts? I'm looking to purchase a few tools to keep around just in case i need to help my friends or someone else. What are a few of the basic tools i should pick up? |
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18 years working at a AAA towing and repair shop. This gets into just about everything. |
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Well, i've already ordered an Air Wedge. The only problem i see with that long reach tool, it's too long to be carried easily. I was thinking maybe one of these?
http://www.hightechtools.com/catalog.php?catid=1&objectid=148&productid=121 http://www.hightechtools.com/catalog.php?catid=1&objectid=9&productid=9 |
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for the cost of the kits stash a couple extra keys.
Galls used to sell them, used them quite a bit. Use tha manual. there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all tool for lock outs. use w/ caution. some jurisdictions will consider it "burglary tools" even if you have them for your stated purpose and are not a towing company or such. |
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for the cost of the kits stash a couple extra keys. Galls used to sell them, used them quite a bit. Use tha manual. there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all tool for lock outs. use w/ caution. some jurisdictions will consider it "burglary tools" even if you have them for your stated purpose and are not a towing company or such. The tools aren't necessarily for me, just in case i might need them or can help someone out I don't believe they're illegal to possess here in TX, i don't think you even need to be licensed in the State of TX to do Auto Unlock Just last weekend, my buddy locked his keys and his phone in his house. I ran to my house, picked up my lock pick gun and opened his deadbolt in 5 minutes. I'd had another buddy ask me to unlock his front door a while back, but they had got it open by the time i got there. |
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Quoted: Quoted: I didn't think a coathanger would be rigid enough to depress unlock buttons, pull door handles/lock knobsA coathanger has never let me down. I've never gone that route, except for in a few on my vehicles. I have yet to find a vehicles lock that cant be manipulated with a coathanger in between the window and door skin. |
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Personally i think getting hassled for having tools is bullshit, real thieves won't jack with trying to open a car without damaging it. They'll just smash a window or something. not if they don't want to get cuaght. I meant smash and grab type thieves, not car thieves. That would make sense. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Get two acrylic body wedges and the trunk spring out of a Honda. I can unlock anything with that in just a few minutes. You mean one of the torsion rods? I never would have thought of that. Yeah, they're about four feet long and hooked at both ends. You can bend them a bit to hit the button once you get it inside, but they're really good steel so they don't wobble when you put some force on them. You should be able to get one out of a junkyard for a few bucks. |