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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 12:41 AM
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Why would someone do that...only beause it look nice...

But how the feck do you open the car when the remote for the car fails...

Just curious...
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 12:42 AM
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Go through the boot or smash a window, doesnt look nice then does it
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 12:47 AM
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I de-locked my fiesta as it kept getting broken into where i used to live so i had a alarm fitted which unlocked the doors awell


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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 12:47 AM
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De locked my doors on my 16i because some cunt did one of them for me and made such a mess of the door in his feeble atempt at stealing my car that it was the ONLY option.

Boot was left alone.

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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 01:10 AM
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6 days after getting my fiesta i whent outside to see the lock hanging out the door, got it delocked and never had a problem again
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 01:11 AM
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I delocked the doors on my old sierra (xr4x4) and when the battery failed I used to pop the bonnet from underneath with a screwdriver If my car wasn't so standard I'd do it again

It's easy to see you don't live in the uk <- real. Theiving gits punch the locks on Fords so the easy way to avoid that is to remove the locks.
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 01:19 AM
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Well if battery goes flat just get set of jump leads, one to the starter motor and the other to an earth on the car and u can use your remote central locking.
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 01:21 AM
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Originally Posted by RSOrion
Well if battery goes flat just get set of jump leads, one to the starter motor and the other to an earth on the car and u can use your remote central locking.
Exact what I did on my ERST when the alarm was draining the battery


Thank God I binned that poxy Clifford shite
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 02:39 AM
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i got the solex locks on the car. Never had a problem.
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 03:57 AM
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I don't really think it's cosmetic add-on for my car, cos it's so small, but I got a de-lock bezel for my ST to stop thieving chavs from trying to pick the lock. It's not easy when there's not lock to pick
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 04:01 AM
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As others have said, security. I parked my sierra at a beauty spot to go cycling and came back to find the lock hanging out the door. Some scumbag had taken my wallet which was hidden out of sight in the glove box and mobile. They weakened all the metal around the lock which was why I was going to get it done. As I was at uni, I couldnt afford it so spent 25 quid on a new door instead.
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 08:41 AM
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And most alarms have 2 key fobs so when the battery goes flat in one you use the other one and replace the battery in the first one
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 08:45 AM
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Originally Posted by kurdt5


i got the solex locks on the car. Never had a problem.
I fuckin hate mine! They are shite!

Would not reccomend them to anyone....
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 06:54 PM
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my last saph was delocked,left forwards in in the garage in gear,had to drag it out with my mates truck jack it up and put jump leads on the starter...............great aye
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 08:02 PM
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my mate delocked and de-handled his lupo and fitted door poppers but his alarm (clifford again) kept draining the battery so i had to make him up a way of getting in which consisted of 4 wire running from his locking and door poppers back through the car and into a dc jack thing fixed inside of his arch liner so when it failed you had to reach between the arch and liner , pull down the little plug and i made him a corresponding plug with 6 meters of wire and a cigar lighter adapter on , plug that into another car and the doors would unlock a driver door open

its not worth the trouble , better off buying a good alarm
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 08:48 PM
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I smashed the rear light on my Saph so I could reach in and pop the boot open. I had a copper drive passed several times while I was hitting the light with a hammer and they never stopped
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil DJ
And most alarms have 2 key fobs so when the battery goes flat in one you use the other one and replace the battery in the first one

i hope ur taking the piss
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 09:15 PM
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But how the feck do you open the car when the remote for the car fails...
Most decent car modifiers actually put a failsafe on it, but dont tell u where it is, that way if u get locked out then u can actually get in
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Daveesaunders
I smashed the rear light on my Saph so I could reach in and pop the boot open. I had a copper drive passed several times while I was hitting the light with a hammer and they never stopped
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Dave McB
But how the feck do you open the car when the remote for the car fails...
Most decent car modifiers actually put a failsafe on it, but dont tell u where it is, that way if u get locked out then u can actually get in
TVR's are so unreliable they put the switch under the wing mirror so its easy to find
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 09:24 PM
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Never needed to De-Lock my car but would if I had a problem with CHAVS!!!
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Old Jul 25, 2009 | 08:52 PM
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only gona findanother way in any way smash the glass or bend the door top over i usually wire the alarm to the central locking but leave the locks with the bars of so if anyone trys once they have the lock out and notice its no good the alarm is going anyway
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Old Jul 25, 2009 | 09:19 PM
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why dig up a post from 2006?
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Old Jul 25, 2009 | 09:31 PM
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nice one
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Old Jul 26, 2009 | 12:14 AM
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I had the doors de-locked on mine after such thieving scum rammed a screwdriver in the door lock and ripped it downwards.... ripping the door skin with it. As soon as he got the door open the Toad alerted him to the fact that he was going nowhere with it, so he legged it.

I have left the boot lock which is as stiff as hell to open but at least is a means of entry if the battery fails, which it did do shortly after the car was de-locked as the stupid arses that did it didn't put the wiring back in the driver's door properly, so when the window was going down it was cutting into the wiring.....
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Old Jul 26, 2009 | 12:30 AM
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Originally Posted by wimwerf
Why would someone do that...only beause it look nice...

But how the feck do you open the car when the remote for the car fails...

Just curious...
Personally I dont know anyone who has had an alarm remote fail, so for me its not actually a problem i would be worrying about!
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