Toyota Tazz Unlocking

[æxxx]

Can anyone please help me out here

I locked my car keys in my car and need to know how to unlock the door using a hanger or another accessible tool.

Being January I can not afford to pay a lock smith R600.00 and will attempt to do this myself.

All help greatly appreciated…

[Karnaugh]

Did you lock yourself inside the car?

[[N]Haja]

yo,

Are the opening knobs (inside the car) rectangular, or round, with a slight taper at the top? Or are they uniform in thickness all the way up?

If they are slightly tapered, I can tell you a cool trick to use with a piece of string / shoelace.

Tie a slipknot about 3/4 on a piece of string. Make sure the slipknot if open, so it can go over the inside knob. Next, feed the piece of string through the door rubber (the top corner is the best place to do this) slowly pully down to get the string inside the car (it will be diagonal) once the string is in, slowly work the knot into through thte rubber. Once the knot is inside, navigate down to the knob, put it over the knob, and tighten the knot. You can then pull up and hopefully open the door.

It works on my old opel, but that has a slightly tapered knob (like an upside down coke bottle).
Also, if you use thicker string or shoelace, it makes rotating the loop a bit easier once it is in the car.

Gl :)

[g5>@nn0n]

Can't tell u in detail , but i had a tazz and i could only get it open from the back doors, - Remove the beading on the panel between door and window and then go mad with yr hook wire , hanger - sledge hammer :) :) wiggle the wire :eek: near the door knob in a sweeping motion and i hope you get yr door open

Gf1v3

[æxxx]

Haja;62312']yo,

Are the opening knobs (inside the car) rectangular, or round, with a slight taper at the top? Or are they uniform in thickness all the way up?

If they are slightly tapered, I can tell you a cool trick to use with a piece of string / shoelace.

Tie a slipknot about 3/4 on a piece of string. Make sure the slipknot if open, so it can go over the inside knob. Next, feed the piece of string through the door rubber (the top corner is the best place to do this) slowly pully down to get the string inside the car (it will be diagonal) once the string is in, slowly work the knot into through thte rubber. Once the knot is inside, navigate down to the knob, put it over the knob, and tighten the knot. You can then pull up and hopefully open the door.

It works on my old opel, but that has a slightly tapered knob (like an upside down coke bottle).
Also, if you use thicker string or shoelace, it makes rotating the loop a bit easier once it is in the car.

Gl :)

Thanks, but this will not help, I have regular knobs and I don’t think it will be possible to do this trick!

Greate idea!!!!

[æxxx]

Can't tell u in detail , but i had a tazz and i could only get it open from the back doors, - Remove the beading on the panel between door and window and then go mad with yr hook wire , hanger - sledge hammer :) :) wiggle the wire :eek: near the door knob in a sweeping motion and i hope you get yr door open

Gf1v3

lol, man this is an option! thanks

[Karnaugh]

If you're really out of options, get a brick, smash the small window at the rear. They are only R190 to replace.

[æxxx]

thanks but i'll leave that to a last resort! :)

[GM<Jaymac>MF]

If you're really out of options, get a brick, smash the small window at the rear. They are only R190 to replace.

Just check how much it costs to replace these windows before you try anything. I once locked my keys in a Corsa and tried to pop the back window out with a screwdriver (I was thinking it would be cheap for them to just put it back in.) Well, long story short I ended up breaking the window by mistake and it was R600 to replace, and that was three years ago! Apparently the small back windows cost more than the big front windows.

[æxxx]

yeah, this is true! anyway i'm gonna look for a dodgy looking character and pay him 20 buck to open it for me. thanx

[MaXimus]

I once had a Tazz and also locked my keys in. When I called a guy he charged R250 to open it for me. What he did was to wedge a triangular wooden piece (shape of a doorstop) between my window and that black beeding. After that it left him enough gap to get a wire in there to unlock it. Before he got there though I thought I'd be clever and removed the black beeding at one of the front windows, and never managed to fit it back on again properly. I would recommend that you try and get a cheaper locksmith or whatever they call those guys. Otherwise you might end up with more tears.

[Karnaugh]

I've replaced those small rear windows about 5 times on my car, it's what bastards always do to try and break in. PG glass is R200 with vat and labor every time I went. You can get even them cheaper elsewhere. It's that really small window between the hatch and the rear door.

[Crazychic]

Toyota in general u can't jippo to open ....... option break the small window which is a biatch ..... seen as all the glass shatters and i mean really shatters ....... cheaper by far as well ......... in my experience

[g5>@nn0n]

Where u situated prehaps i can try and help - i am in durbs ?????

[æxxx]

coolness i will try a few things and let you know what actually worked!

thanks for the advice, but i work in Rivonia and the cheapest locksmith is R450.00...

[æxxx]

Where u situated prehaps i can try and help - i am in durbs ?????

lol dude, please help. i'm in JHB, Santon cya in 5?

[GM<Gorain>MF]

If you know anyone who is an AA member they will come and do it for free, the member just needs to be there.
I have had this done a few times with friends cars and so on. It is not advisable to try it yourself as yuo can easily screw something up...

In my experiance a coat hanger is not the best if you can find a thin piece of steel and make a bend "hook" at one end it gives you a greater area to hook onto the inside of the door.

hope it works out

[GM<Jaymac>MF]

Well, I once lost my car keys when I was ata shopping center, and I had no spare. They had to come and make a key for me on site. First they had to break into the car, then they took the ignision out and used it to make a fresh key. (Luckily it was an old car that didn't have a chip in the key) but the whole exercise was well over a grand!

Another time I ran out of petrol on the main road (Beyer's Naude) middle lane. I was across the road from a petrol station so I jumped out and went over there. I got a can full of petrol and dodged my way back to my car, which was by now making lots of nice long traffic, only to find that I'd locked the keys insde!! I had to wait there for like half an hour during peak traffic, holding a can of petrol until someone could come help me out! :P

Well, hope those stories make you feel a little better. :P

[g5>@nn0n]

lol :) good luck

[Bezerkalien]

dont you have a spare key by any chance?
or did you loose one.

[æxxx]

O’well I paid the security guy 50 buck and a can of coke to open my car.

I gave him a hanger and he soon got to work it took him about 30 seconds to unlock the rear door.

Thanks for all the advice, I have my keys again!

[J1nX]

Just shows you what experts those guys are hey? ROFL - better not park your car there overnight or something hehe :D

[Ragnarok]

Wow thats amazing, my dad locked his keys in a hired tazz. After about 10000000 people trying to open it and 5 hours later, he gave up and broke the small window to unlocked the car.

[MaXimus]

Glad you got it sorted æxxx without having to break a window.

@Jaymac: Thats a crap one dude. I only once ran out of fuel before. It also gave me an interesting story. It was raining cats and dogs, I was about 3Km's from the nearest fuel station. So I made a run for it, halfway there I saw a car underneath a bridge but when I got close I saw two guys stealing out the radio, they already had the dash ripped wide open. So, I slightly increased my running speed. Eventually got to the petrol station, properly water blasted by trucks and cars. Got some fuel in a bottle, and then ran all the way back. And yes, it was on a Friday evening just after work. :P

[GM<Jaymac>MF]

Hahaha... sounds like a rough neighbourhood Maximus. :)

I've run out of fuel so many times I can't even count. I used to drive a beetle with a broken fuel gauage so I basically drove on faith and luck until it stopped going.

[g5>@nn0n]

Good ta hear , was just about to leave ???? lol :)

[War]-[eaD]

Hehe... This was an interesting read! :P

Glad you've got your keys back dude! :D

[æxxx]

:D

[Maxer100]

I've got a toyota tazz 2001 model. Ended up phoning a locksmith in 2004 to open it for R140.

This is after everyone in my house tried, coat hanger and all.

According to the locksmith there is a box around the mechanism in the door so the coat hanger method shouldn't work....

The way he opened it which took about 1 min was he had the proper lock picking tools. You know like the ones to pick yale locks etc. and he managed to turn it so that the lock inside clicked back up into the unlock position.

[Sting]

I had a friend who also decided to break the small 'inexpensive' back window...think over a thousand bucks later he had his keys. Think it was with his Opel Kadett. So rather find out which is the cheapest window first.

[Scrye]

Tazz/conquests aren't very hard to break into.

I once watched a guy open my back door in about 5 seconds flat with some arb piece of wire he found on the ground.

[GM<Jaymac>MF]

LOL... that's funny. :)

[Karnaugh]

I had a friend who also decided to break the small 'inexpensive' back window...think over a thousand bucks later he had his keys. Think it was with his Opel Kadett. So rather find out which is the cheapest window first.

Well obviously don't be a tool and break the whole rear windscreen. And also don't go and get a genuine replacement window either (Or do it on a Mercedes)

That is a bit of a "Don't smash your face into a wall right before your favorite TV show" comment.. really..

[Gamos]

Some years ago at work, I locked my keys in my Mazada 323. I asked one of the store guys to come help me. He took his Mazda323 key, wiggled my passenger lock (as not to damage the main door's lock) and actually unlocked the door with his key! How scary!

Another time, a coat hanger, a securtiy guard and 15 seconds. :(

[æxxx]

So basically this is how it all played off.


lock my keys in the car
tried for 1 hour to open the door with coat hanger
called locksmith, charge R450.00 and R600.00
looked for suspicious looking persons
security guard offered to help
he removed the black windscreen cover from the back door
made a hook with the coat hanger
inserted the hook by the gap between the window
lifted up the lock knob
total time it took: 45 seconds
damage, the coat hanger can never be used for hanging again and now custom made lock opening tool

[<A>Fragaholic]

Big trick is to push the window in slightly and insert a door stop so that you can see what your doing inside there with your coat hanger... opel corsa's can be done in like 5 seconds... had to perform this stunt outside debonnairs for a friend.. pizzas didnt even go cold :P