Locked out, keys in car, and windows up in hardtop frame, with a dead battery. Gain entry?
Locked out of my 2007 convertible corvette, with a dead battery, with the key for the trunk lid inside! I've read about taking VIN # to a dealer and they cutting me a new key, or taking out the rear taillight and hooking up light wires to a battery? I have a trickle charger, but one must know which of the light wires to hook up the trickle charger, + and - to?
The later seems like the easiest way to proceed, providing I know which of the 3 wire end I am to connect my trickle charger ends to, Help Please? Thank You!
With the Car battery dead, keys in car, and the second set with Hard key for trunk too far
away to get, you would normally be SOL>
I've had a few Senior Moments and had just that happen twice. The first time a towing company attempted to do the old blow up pad> NOT> the window has O flex when in the upper hardtop steel window seat. I do all my own work on my C-6 or any car I have and I could not think of a way to get in. We got the blow up pad in the window somehow but he pumped it up and blew the window out. New window motor, rail, cabling, glass, and paint for glass damage to the top outside door.
Thought I would have gone with the hard key hide a key very easy to make it very hard to find for someone else looking for one to rip it off. But no never got to it.
Again keys on E Brake cover where I usually have them and dead battery when I go to get in door won't open. Again brain dead sets in having the OEM battery still in the car 7 years.
To the point. Do this now and you won't have to do what I did to get to the trunk release latch.. The Left most tail light held in with one screw, take it out let the tail light dangle until you can drill a 1/8 hole upper center of tail hole through the back deck. Undo the over lapped carpet by the trunk light, and storage compartment. Crimp a small cable on the trunk release tab, run it behind the carpet and out the hold you just drilled. Put a weighted Nut, or anything you can pull on that keeps the cable taught. You can't get to the cable from anywhere but the tail light being pulled out as with a hide a key. I was stuck doing this being locked out. I had to drill with a hole saw big enough for my fist to get through to clear the insulation and carpet to see the trunk latch from outside the tail light. Pulled it and trunk opened, and I was in. I now have a one screw access way in if *(and I will) do get locked out again. With access to the trunk being open it takes approx. 30 min.
One man's way to not worry if the hide a key is still in place, or there at all. A key chain size phillips will take the one screw out on the tail light. FYI there is nothing behind the back deck to worry about drilling into. Mostly at that point open fiberglass. I've had the complete interior out twice from firewall to back deck, for Dynamatt sound/heat reducing material. Then for a complete Bose system swap out. Alpine 4 way complete to the Nav system. Familiar with most every part of the interior, if any questions someone might have
with removing bezels, guages, etc.
Your problem must be very frustrating. I can't help you as I have no idea, but one of our "smart" folks will be around soon.
