MossRoad
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- Aug 31, 2001
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- South Bend, Indiana (near)
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- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
Back in high school a friend was given his grandfather's old Valiant. (cool car!). Only had an ignition key. No glovebox or trunk key. We went to this old locksmith to get keys made.
Once I saw how fast a burglar can get into a house other than a door, and how fast a professional locksmith can get through a lock made me come to peace with locks being there just to keep four legged critters out. The typical time to steal the catalytic converter from one of our vehicles is reportedly less than a minute. I think that angle grinders are just amazingly quick and effective against locks.
All the best,
Peter
He walks out to the car, pulls out a little leather zipper pouch from his vest pocket, opens it up, and pulls out two flat wires. One is bent at a 90, the other has a bump on the end.
He puts the angled wire into the trunk lock and put some twisting pressure on it with his left thumb. Then he took the wire with the bump in his right hand and pushed it into the lock, then slowly pulled it out and it popped open just like that, one movement.
The spring tension of the 90 held slight pressure while the bump pushed the pins up. Took maybe 10 seconds at most.
Then he removed the lock from inside the trunk lid, took it inside, took it apart, measured the pins and made a key for it. That worked in the glovebox as well. I think he charged something like $5 for the service and a buck a key.
