Today at the subaru shop.....

[StephenW]

A new (4500 miles) OB comes in with a "rod" sticking up out of the passinger
door between the seal and the window. The customer had locked themselves out
and someone (a professional locksmith?) had used this slim jim tool to
attempt to unlock the door, and now the tool was stuck in the door. The
service writer, jim and I used door wedges to give us more room but we
couldent untangle this rod. Jim told the customer it would take about an
hour.
I removed the inner door planel and the plastic sheet so I could see what I
was dealing with. The rod went down inside the door, reversed directions and
up the other side of the window glass, curving sharply back down again by
the mirror. It also went around a window regulator attach point. The end had
a hook that had caught a wire harness. It took me some strange manuvers to
untangle it and remove this "tool" without scractching it.
I still don't know how they
--
Steve
ASE Master Tech
L1 Diag
Currently residing at a Subaru Shop
4.5 years doing tires and alighnmentsit got in there...

 

[Carl 1 Lucky Texan]

A new (4500 miles) OB comes in with a "rod" sticking up out of the passinger
door between the seal and the window. The customer had locked themselves out
and someone (a professional locksmith?) had used this slim jim tool to
attempt to unlock the door, and now the tool was stuck in the door. The
service writer, jim and I used door wedges to give us more room but we
couldent untangle this rod. Jim told the customer it would take about an
hour.
I removed the inner door planel and the plastic sheet so I could see what I
was dealing with. The rod went down inside the door, reversed directions and
up the other side of the window glass, curving sharply back down again by
the mirror. It also went around a window regulator attach point. The end had
a hook that had caught a wire harness. It took me some strange manuvers to
untangle it and remove this "tool" without scractching it.
I still don't know how they

Sure sounds like the window cycled or partly cycled with the slim jim in
place.

weird


Carl

 

[Todd H.]

A new (4500 miles) OB comes in with a "rod" sticking up out of the passinger
door between the seal and the window. The customer had locked themselves out
and someone (a professional locksmith?) had used this slim jim tool to
attempt to unlock the door, and now the tool was stuck in the door. The
service writer, jim and I used door wedges to give us more room but we
couldent untangle this rod. Jim told the customer it would take about an
hour.
I removed the inner door planel and the plastic sheet so I could see what I
was dealing with. The rod went down inside the door, reversed directions and
up the other side of the window glass, curving sharply back down again by
the mirror. It also went around a window regulator attach point. The end had
a hook that had caught a wire harness. It took me some strange manuvers to
untangle it and remove this "tool" without scractching it.
I still don't know how they

I've got a why question....

Any reason they didn't just wedge the glass pane and poke at the power
unlock button?

 

[StephenW]

I've got a why question....

Any reason they didn't just wedge the glass pane and poke at the power
unlock button?

Don't ask me, the one thing I can't seem to master is getting into a locked
car.

Steve

 

[Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B]

Don't ask me, the one thing I can't seem to master is getting into a
locked car.

Steve

I got quite used to it before I started carrying two keys...

I hated the buzzers Toyota used, so the first thing after getting a new
Toy was to disconnect the damn buzzer!

Toyotas are worse to get into then Subys because most models have a metal
frame around the door. The first time I locked the keys in was in a new
Corolla in '74 with the 'wing' windows in the back(NEW car in high school!
Those were the days!) We managed to pry one of the rear windows open. One
friend with an offset screwdriver(why do you have that? Oh, I just carry
it...) and a *SKINNY* girl with us got the keys out.