Keys locked in Focus ST - help!

[J3PTF]

Hi,

As per the title, I have locked my key in the boot of my 2013 focus ST. Unfortunately, the spare is also now locked in there.

I have spoken to my Ford dealer, as I wanted to see if getting a new key would be more palatable than forced entry, but they just told me to speak to the AA who 'have a kit for this.'

Has anyone got any experience of this and what it involves as I'm rather nervous about bent doors etc?!

Thanks

[gtidriver]

I'll be the first
Bad luck locking both keys in the car and good luck getting in it.

[Podie]

For a new key, they still need access to the vehicle.

Basically, you or the AA are going to be breaking into your car.

[Silent1]

break a spark plug, throw a small piece of the ceramic insulator at the window.

[Podie]

I'd phone a glass specialist and see if they can remove the rear screen...

[J3PTF]

Bugger - what I suspected really.

Am I being too optimistic to hope it'll be done damage free? I think I'd rather have a window broken than anything bent out of shape...

[Turbofocus]

A lot of recovery type people have a small air bag type piece of equipment.

This is slid in the gap at the top of the door and pumped up.
It slowly and gently bends the door out a bit to gain access to the inside door handle with a rod.

It normally does not damage the door though and works as long as it's not dead locked.

The windows will be hard to break actually,unless you use a glass break hammer.
If you do this then put tape all over the window to hold the shattered glass together.

[essayer]

Albeit a 1999 Focus not a new one, but the RAC were able to break into my car when I locked the keys in the boot. They powered up the ignition from underneath somehow then used a rod & wedge to press the electric window button..

[Rythmic slapping]

Can I ask how you managed to lock the keys in the car? is it an ST1 or 2?

I have a MK3 2013 ST3 - Keyless entry doesn't allow you (unless you hold the boot release and close it at the same time) to lock your keys in the car..

Just wondered how it locked itself with the keys in the car with or without keyless...

Good luck though.

[J3PTF]

Rythmic slapping said:

Can I ask how you managed to lock the keys in the car? is it an ST1 or 2?

I have a MK3 2013 ST3 - Keyless entry doesn't allow you (unless you hold the boot release and close it at the same time) to lock your keys in the car..

Just wondered how it locked itself with the keys in the car with or without keyless...

Good luck though.

It's an ST2 estate - it has keyless ignition, but not keyless entry.

The unlocked just the boot to get something out, put them down, then shut the boot. The spare key was (unbeknown to me) already in the car.

[J3PTF]

Turbofocus said:

A lot of recovery type people have a small air bag type piece of equipment.

This is slid in the gap at the top of the door and pumped up.
It slowly and gently bends the door out a bit to gain access to the inside door handle with a rod.

It normally does not damage the door though and works as long as it's not dead locked.

That sounds almost too good to be true. I assume it's a combination of how clumsy the person is, and how easy the access to the handle is, as to whether there's any lasting damage.

What if it is deadlocked?

[J3PTF]

Turbofocus said:

A lot of recovery type people have a small air bag type piece of equipment.

This is slid in the gap at the top of the door and pumped up.
It slowly and gently bends the door out a bit to gain access to the inside door handle with a rod.

It normally does not damage the door though and works as long as it's not dead locked.

That sounds almost too good to be true. I assume it's a combination of how clumsy the person is, and how easy the access to the handle is, as to whether there's any lasting damage.

What if it is deadlocked?

[cjb1]

I've heard that putting a live feed to the reverse light switch opens the central locking. This is OK if you can access the reverse light switch from the underside of the car.

Might be an old wives tale, never tried it?

[S0 What]

Usually the recovery company will use a plastic wedge to prise the door top open and fish the switch with a rod.

[NPI]

It seems a completely un-neccessary "feature" to have the boot release separate from the rest of the central locking. My Merc estate and wife's Honda Jazz don't have it, but our Golf does.

My FIL locked the keys in his Focus while putting the dog in the back after a walk - thankfully he was only a few miles away and we were in so we could go over with the spare key.