RE: Armored door plates!!!

["L. M. Lloyd" <ubik@austin.rr.com>]

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Actually, I had an interesting experience concerning a Scirocco and a
slim jim once that might shed some light on the disparate accounts of
slim jim use on the beasts. Back in the early '90s I worked at a
nightclub in the club district. One night after work I realized that
I had locked my keys in my car, but I was not far from a 24-hour
locksmith, so I walked down to the locksmith, and borrowed a slim jim
to get my car open. As I started to insert the slim jim, a rather
disreputable character wandered over from across the street, and said
"here let a professional do it!" In the fifteen minutes that followed
as he tried to get my door open, I found out that this rather scruffy
character "made his living" breaking into the cars of drunk people
out partying, and stealing stuff out of their cars. Ultimately he was
unable to unlock the car, which he attributed to the way VW power
locks worked, and said I was going to have to knock the handle off to
get in. I then took the slim jim, and immediately opened the car.
What turned out to be is problem, was he was trying to hook the
mechanism, and pull it up (as he swore was how you do it on most
cars), but on the Scirocco, I found it much easier to hook the bar
coming from the actuator, and push down. Perhaps this is a common
misconception, that accounts for the difference in performance







The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> [mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Marc Scirocco
> Québec Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 9:37 PM
> To: Scirocco-L@scirocco.org
> Subject: Re: Armored door plates!!!
>
>
> Well well, I once locked myself outside of my Scirocco
> while aboard a ferry, from Victoria to Tsawassen, for
> those NW folks ;) and the staff had a Slim Jim on
> board, so I borrowed it, and opened the darn Scirocco
> within minutes... Not as fast as an old Chevy, but
> still fast. Luck or skill? Whatever :)
>
> Cheers.
>
> Marc
> '83 Scirocco
> '88 Scirocco Slegato
>
>  --- Captnbr@aol.com a écrit : > In a message dated
> 9/26/01 6:30:27 PM Eastern
> > Daylight Time, DNK006@aol.com
> > writes:
> >
> > << I lost my keys while boating once, but i had a
> > spare in the glove box of
> > my
> >  '84 Scirocco.  i called the cops... but they could
> > not get in with a
> >  slim-jim! >>
> >
> > Have the automatic door locking feature on my rocco.
> >  Got out of the car at
> > work once, was walking away when i realized i left
> > the keys in the car.
> > Sprinting back to the car i heard the door locks
> > click, i was to late.
> > Anyway there was a trooper there, he tried for 10
> > minutes to use a slimjim
> > with no success.
> >
> > Brian 86 16v
> > 98 Jetta GLX Vr6
> >
> > http://hometown.aol.com/captnbr/myhomepage/auto.html
> >
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