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Post by Sparky on Dec 17, 2019 7:21:25 GMT
I quite like the collection of Cassettes at 02:38.
When I saw Shaw Taylor - I 1/2 expected either Gene Hunt or Jack Regan to come crashing round the corner with a bit of Car Security advice.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Dec 17, 2019 9:52:51 GMT
Car locks were fairly easy to undo then, especially when they got a bit worn. I remember one day in about 1980 or 81, this bloke parked outside our house in a mark 1 Capri and locked his key in the boot. I saw him struggling to asked if he needed help, and I tried the key to my Austin A40, it opened it! For a laugh afterwards, we tried it in the doors and it opened them too! Similar tale Carty a workmate of my dad's locked or didn't have his keys to his mk4 Cortina and tried his door keys in it and opened the doors no problem.
Motors up to the late 90's could easily be stolen by both joyriders and the pro car thief. Sadly like everything with every new method to stop them (like the bypasses for keyless stuff these days) thieves will find a way... the nastiest of which are car jackings and aggravated burglary.
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Post by Sparky on Dec 17, 2019 13:57:03 GMT
Car locks were fairly easy to undo then, especially when they got a bit worn. I remember one day in about 1980 or 81, this bloke parked outside our house in a mark 1 Capri and locked his key in the boot. I saw him struggling to asked if he needed help, and I tried the key to my Austin A40, it opened it! For a laugh afterwards, we tried it in the doors and it opened them too! Similar tale Carty a workmate of my dad's locked or didn't have his keys to his mk4 Cortina and tried his door keys in it and opened the doors no problem.
Motors up to the late 90's could easily be stolen by both joyriders and the pro car thief. Sadly like everything with every new method to stop them (like the bypasses for keyless stuff these days) thieves will find a way... the nastiest of which are car jackings and aggravated burglary. I was at school with someone who later trained as a Locksmith. I ended up calling on his services when I locked my keys in a past car, a 1995 central locking Astra. It took him literally less than a minute to get into the car without any damage caused. Using a tool called a "Slim Jim". It looked like a 2ft long metal ruler with a number of odd jags and cuts at one end.
He explained that older vehicals were much easier, and the keys had numbers on them - and each manufacturer only had so many combinations. So around 1 or 2 keys in every 1000 or so would match keys in the next 1000 - and also, because the combinations were very similar - with a small file, or a bit of jiggling about - you could open the door with a similar formed key.
Very old security alarm panels (pre keypad) - used Barrel locks, which used a circular key and supposedly much more secure and harder to forge a key for. And they were much more expensive too - possibly why the car industry couldn't be bothered with them.
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Post by Cartman on Dec 17, 2019 14:03:29 GMT
Ive just remembered something else from a few years ago when I got a Mark 2 Cortina as a project car. It had been left in a garage for years and the bloke I got it off had lost the keys. I happened to have my office keys on me and there was a little key that locked my desk drawer. Guess what - it opened the doors, boot and fitted the ignition!
That was the answer to the lost key, I just got a copy of the desk drawer key cut!
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