Can you get locked IN a car?

This thread reminds me of this Family Guy clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kSdvJ0Xhhs

Racer1ab wrote: He looked awfully embarrassed when I showed him where the emergency door handle was.

If the emergency door handle is hidden, doesn't that sort of defeat the purpose when you are in an emergency?

Cuda wrote: I my cars if the electric locks fail. Trying to open the door will automatically unlock them. Hell the power locks in my mustang gave up the ghost a long time ago. There is no key hole on the pax side so that is how I let in my girlfriend. Classy Right.

You mean you don't kick the window out?

Real 9-1-1 locked in car call.

It's not an "emergency" door release. It's a "manual" release handle for when power fails on the car. There are too many stories of stupid Vette owners trapped in their cars. Give the keys back and get a bicycle!

I locked my wife in my Pass at. It was done by inadvertently pressing the key in my pocket.This activated the deadlock, which can only be unlocked by using the remote key. Now my wife insists on keeping the dioramas when I leave her in the cAR

Datsun1500 wrote: You can get locked in Land Rover Discoverys. Pulling the lock button on the door does not unlock the door.

This is true for a Range Rover too. Motion detector in the cabin disables the ignition. Alarm blaring. I had the old fashioned key without the fob. Wife had to rescue me with the fobbed key. Shame. Embarrassment. I suppose I'm glad it didn't catch on fire...a bright side to everything.

Zombie thread.

I do know that if you remove the interior door handles and window knobs from the inside of a 1983 Mustang you can get trapped inside!Just don't leave the handles on the inside of the car. If you "accidentally" crush a fuel line with some vice grips, the car will only go so far until it dies with you trapped inside.

It can also be a hoot to drive by when this car is stalled and wave happily and give the universal sign for "roll down the window" until they get mad enough to express their displeasure with hand signals.

Would have been the perfect story if the car was a convertible.

Bruce

Having only read the title, I will share that yes, you can. Really inconvienient when you have to go to the bathroom and the cops are getting simething in the gas station and won't let you out...

Yes you can, if the car has manual locks and you slam the door hard enough that the rod comes off.

My VW (well, the one that is registered) cannot lock or unlock the driver's door from the inside. Assuming that the other three doors were inoperative (not a far-off assumption: two already are) then the only option would be to roll the window down and put the key in the exterior to unlock it.

And I'd really have to hurry up too, because the top is down and it's starting to rain.

You certainly can get locked in a VW Corrado. You can also get the Van Gogh treatment from the autobelts during any given egress event.

pinchvalve wrote: Did it mention a hair color on the woman?

was it a convertible ?

Electrical problems aside, being hit by lightning could cause the door to be stuck shut due to mechanical problems. The energy of a lightning bolt can cause mechanisms in the door to contort into different shapes and make it impossible for them to move.

Before reading this thread I though is was only on the cars used in those "Bait Car" car thief police shows that you couldn't get out of. Now I think I'm going to get some of those spring loaded center punch thinges to keep in my car just in case.

Do you know why the bass player had to smash the window in his van?

Because the drummer got locked inside..

I have been in cars at the do-it-yourself salvage yard getting an interior part, where the interior door handles have been "picked" (missing) already. The battery has been removed so the power windows are going nowhere. I am always careful but if those doors latch shut I can see having to break out a window to get out.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote: You shouldn't be able to period, otherwise the automaker would have a huge lawsuit on their hands. But, saying that, I worry about that with the C6 Corvette and anything that has a "button" for a door handle.

I was just in a new Corvette over the weekend as a passenger and when I went to get out.............no door handle. Just a button, so ya if there was some sort of an electric failure that could be a problem.

My friend had to call triple A one time because he was locked out of my Miata. He thought it was funny that he had to explain to them that the keys weren't inside the car, that the key wouldn't unlock the doors.

I had loamed him the car and forgotten to tell him not to lock it because the locks will lock from the inside, but the key won't open them from the outside.

It's one thing when your locked inside the car but what about standing outside with the keys not being able to get in?? I should probably fix that.

The BMW owner's manual says not to lock the car with the fob when someone is in the car because they will not be able to get out unless they know "the special procedure". They don't say what that procedure is.

Argo1 wrote: The BMW owner's manual says not to lock the car with the fob when someone is in the car because they will not be able to get out unless they know "the special procedure". They don't say what that procedure is.

I know it...locked the keys in my E46 once and the locksmith showed me the whole song and dance. You have to press the interior power lock button, and then pull an interior door handle TWICE. Then the lock pops up and you can get in normally.

Cost me $130 to learn that.