Urgent Help Please! Locked my only Passat key in car!

[Flat6]

Doh! My wife mentioned the windscreen washers needed filling on her Passat so I unlocked the car, got in and popped the bonnet. Put the keys in the ignition but didn't turn them. I got out, shut the door and as I opened the bonnet the auto-door lock locked all the doors!

Any ideas anyone? Anything I can do to get in without breaking the glass? The bonnet is still open so can I do anything to trip the locks? I know the obvious answer is to smash the glass but that's got to be a last resort

BTW it's an 02 Passat Estate..

Edited by Flat6 on Wednesday 5th May 17:58

[00161wj]

You can turn the ignition on, therefore unlocking the doors by locating the igntion wire under the bonnet and feeding it with 12v. I have no idea where this is on a passat though and im not sure if its something that should be posted on the internet to be honest but im sure a google search will bring something up

[BoraBora]

smash the window, there cheap enough for a passat if you can fit it yourself, £10-£20 from a scrapyard

[Flat6]

Thanks for the suggestions guys, panic now over. After two hours of swearing and cursing I managed to find my way in without damaging anything. Phew!

[bn9af]

Flat6 said:

Thanks for the suggestions guys, panic now over. After two hours of swearing and cursing I managed to find my way in without damaging anything. Phew!

which was.... i'm interested now! purely in a non thieving bd kind of way....

[bigjobbo]

Well done. There's nothing like the feeling of "theoretically" stealing a car, even if it is your own. My friend gave his keys to his baby to play with and foolishly closed the door as he took the trolley back, i too broke nothing!

[teen_cerbera]

bigjobbo said:

Well done. There's nothing like the feeling of "theoretically" stealing a car, even if it is your own. My friend gave his keys to his baby to play with and foolishly closed the door as he took the trolley back, i too broke nothing!

On another level, I had a friend who left the keys in the ignition of a double cab Ford Ranger. Also in the Ranger was a large dog, dog gets excited, jumps up on the door latch and activates the central locking. My friend did his best "come on, up boy" act, along with a falsely over excited expression to no avail. The dog seemed pretty smug inside...

In the end, he "opened" the truck with a baseball bat, the dog wasnt so smug after he put that through...

[Flat6]

Glad I didn't have to resort to baseball bat tactics, especially when I'm planning on putting it up for sale!