Urgent: Breaking into one's own uncooperative 5kq?

[ian at bluemoon.hplx.net]

On Sat, 27 Mar 2004, Brett Dikeman wrote:

> I would not go bragging about having a slimjim.  I am not a lawyer,
> but in many states I believe possession of lock picking tools is
> illegal by itself unless you are a licensed locksmith, and in a good
> number more it will bump a misdemeanor to a felony if you're arrested
> doing something you shouldn't be.  This advice came to me straight
> from a former coworker who was a licensed locksmith, who let me
> borrow one of his pick sets and a bunch of practice locks(I thought
> it would be fun to try to pick up- I was horrible at it).

Good to know.  I don't personally own it and had never seen one before
last night -- but I'm glad my friend had it.  :)

At any rate we were able to use the slimjim to get the car open after
returning with cooler heads and more motivation.  Literally the first
thing we did was pop the hood and pull the central locking fuse; it's
hanging out in my pocket now.

I'm not new to VAG door handles.  More than one handle has come off in my
hand over the years.  It's just this "you cain't get in" thing that's
both novel and stupid...

ian Butler / ian at bluemoon.hplx.net
'88 Audi 5000S quattro
'88 VW Scirocco 16v
'87 VW Vanagon GL syncro
'77 Mercury Marquis