how did he do that?

[Meriasek]

I work at a large hospital that has a well staffed security entity. Most of them are retired police officers. One night I was leaving the hospital and had locked my keys in the truck, a 2001 Chevy Silverado. I called security to come unlock it.

The officer walked up to my truck, and says, "oh, you have a chevy. i have a chevy too. my key will open it." He then pulled his keys out of his pocket, inserted the key to his vehicle into my vehicle and opened it up. i was dumbfounded.

So, i went home and verily verily i say unto thee, i took my truck key and inserted it into my wifes Trailblazer. Bingo. Opened it right up. You have to jiggle the tumblers a bit, but it works, and works easily.

I've subsequently opened another buddy's tahoe, and another guy's silverado with my silverado key.

i've never tried to start the ignition, however.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Car key locks are pretty low on the precision scale. I cut my own keys for many locks and car locks are the easiest - as long as you are close in notches, it will work.

And a story:

Once I was dropping the family at church, back than they were still protestants and I was catholic, and my daughter shut the door on me. It was summer, I was barefoot outside a running car in front of a church. LOL. I had a spare key, of course, but it was in my valet inside.

It took me 3 minutes to pop the hood from under and yank the distributor cable - 95 Ford Taurus - and 20 minutes to get it open with coat hanger.

Ever since I hide a spare key under the car to have access to it without the hood exercise.

 

[milkman636]

I was working in downtown Detroit and inadvertantly locked the keys inside my 98 GMC. I called a key shop that was close by. The guy asked me to read the VIN to him over the phone. He showed up in less than 15 minutes with a new key in hand. Being in Detroit, I was actually more concerned than impressed with how easily he produced a perfect key.

 

[MossRoad]

We honest guys should be grateful nobody ever managed to develop a slim-jim kit for ignition locks !!!!

They have. Its called a screw driver...

 

[MossRoad]

Back in the '70s a friend of mine's grandpa gave him a 60's Valiant. The trunk key was missing. We drove to a locksmith who was an old guy in a neat old one room business with wood floor, workbench, and locks, keys and parts in bins all over. The neat kind of dusty shop with sunlight coming in through the widow. He tells the old timer he wants the trunk open and a key made. The locksmith walks out to the car, looks at the lock over his glasses and pulls a small leather pouch out of his pocket. He looks down through his glasses at an assortment of metal picks and pulls out two of them. One is shaped like an allen wrench and the other is straight with a bump on the end. He sticks the bent one into the lock and puts a little pressure on it with his thumb to simulate the turn of a key and then he takes the one with the bump on it and runs it into the lock and out and the thing goes POP and the trunk opens. I mean it wasn't two seconds. Just POP! Then he removed the lock, took it inside and made a key for my friend. That was my first introduction to lock picking. I went home and made some tools out of metal strips and started playing around with locks. Started taking them apart to see how they worked. Very interesting stuff. I can now get into most old file cabinets, desks and house locks with a paper clip bent into a certain shape. Old locks are very sloppy from the wear and tear of the ages. If you have never taken a lock apart, you should, just to see how they work. More complicated locks are truly a work of art. Cheap combination locks are, well, cheap and are easy to defeat. And, as someone mentioned, with the advent of battery powered cutoff tools, lock picking will become a dying art! :laughing:

 

[DANOCHEESE]

I have a golf cart key that will unlock every file cabinet at work. Several peple wonder why I'm so important to have this key.

My blazer keys used to open the boss's blazer his would not open mine. Again who is the important one here.

 

[Taylortractornut]

I saw my older brother one day at a job site and a worker locked his keys in the f 350 he was in. my brother picked up a a wide metal banding strap on the ground a bout an inch and a half wide and made 3 snips with a set of tin snips and was in the mans truck before he could walk to pay phone we were parked nexst to.

 

[Soundguy]

I was working in downtown Detroit and inadvertantly locked the keys inside my 98 GMC. I called a key shop that was close by. The guy asked me to read the VIN to him over the phone. He showed up in less than 15 minutes with a new key in hand. Being in Detroit, I was actually more concerned than impressed with how easily he produced a perfect key.

my brother did that same deal.. vin from key.. and it worked lickety split.

soundguy