Date:         Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:14:52 -0700
Reply-To:     Timothy Hannink <tjhannink@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Timothy Hannink <tjhannink@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Locked out
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3) - If you have non-camper sliding windows, leave one
open, reach through it to lock the door you couldn't
lock previously, then slide the window closed.

I remember doing this on my Carat and my '75 Bus after
I had locked it up only to discover that one of the
kids had left the window open. It doesn't work on
campers though, the latch is too far back and the
screen is in the way.

Tim

--- 80 Westy Pokey <pokey@VANAGON.ORG> wrote:
> 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
>


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