I think I have to clarify a bit. In an EARLY Vanagon, with the exception of the rear hatch, there is no way to lock the door and then close it. Therefore in an EARLY Vanagon in order to lock yourself out of the car you must do one of the following: 1) After locking the slider, and both front doors, open the rear hatch, lock it, leave your keys inside, crawl out, and then close the hatch. 2) Lock all the doors leaving one of the front roll down windows open enough to reinsert your keys, but not open enough to get your arm through to unlock the door. Having illustrated the lunacy of both of these options I have no doubt that today or tomorrow I will find a third, yet to be conceved way, of locking one's self out of an early van and claim the prize of list idiot for myself. Thanks, Chris ---- Original message ---- >Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:52:26 -0400 >From: Johnson City Alliance Church <art@CMACHURCH.ORG> >Subject: Re: Locked out >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > >>How do you lock your keys in the van? I can't on my '81, even using >>the sliding door. The >>only way I know to do it is to lock the hatch while it is open, >>throw the keys inside, and then >>shut the hatch. >> >>Bill >> >I can easily lock my keys in the car because all I need to do is push >the lock button down and shut the door. This is for both front doors, >not the sliding door or hatch, obviously. I have an 84 Vanagon. > >Art >-- > >Visit our site at http://CMAchurch.org > >"Before you can help make the world right, you must be made right >within" --John Miller |
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