Is it possible to get stuck in your car

[clifford]

Lets say all your doors are locked, whilst driving you knock the central locking switch. You pull over to park and you switch the engine off. You try to open the door but it is locked, so you try the key fob and get no response. You turn on the ignition no response, the battery has failed or the electrics have shut down, for whatever reason. How would you get out of the car?

[bobgrice]

I would just enjoy it.

[freddie]

Just pull the door handle

[Astraeus]

Originally Posted by freddie

Just pull the door handle

Exactly!

[Canonite]

Originally Posted by clifford

Lets say all your doors are locked, whilst driving you knock the central locking switch. You pull over to park and you switch the engine off. You try to open the door but it is locked, so you try the key fob and get no response. You turn on the ignition no response, the battery has failed or the electrics have shut down, for whatever reason. How would you get out of the car?

It is possible yes. When I fitted the speaker baffles in the doors I inadvertedly put a screw through the door loom which runs under. All it did was nick the sheath so it kept shorting out, blowing the fuse and disabling the central locking. The fuse that blows is for all the door locks and electric windows, as i've got the child locks on too the only way I could get out was climbing through the boot.
As anyone who has met me will agree, I'm not the most nimble of chaps anymore.

I had to climb into the back, drop the seats enough to squeeze through into the boot then use the safety latch inside.
Fortunately my boot release worked but if it didn't i'd have had to get someone to unlock it with the key...

[T-Cut]

If there was a complete electrical failure, I doubt you would get out unless someone outside broke a window so you could escape.

TC

[calibrax]

Originally Posted by Canonite

It is possible yes. When I fitted the speaker baffles in the doors I inadvertedly put a screw through the door loom which runs under. All it did was nick the sheath so it kept shorting out, blowing the fuse and disabling the central locking. The fuse that blows is for all the door locks and electric windows, as i've got the child locks on too the only way I could get out was climbing through the boot.
As anyone who has met me will agree, I'm not the most nimble of chaps anymore.

I had to climb into the back, drop the seats enough to squeeze through into the boot then use the safety latch inside.
Fortunately my boot release worked but if it didn't i'd have had to get someone to unlock it with the key...

Odd. The front doors should have worked ok, as the first pull on the interior handle pops up the door lock mechanism, and then the second pull opens the door. No electrics involved, and no child locks on the front doors. The only way this wouldn't work is if the door had been locked from outside with the key, i.e. deadlocked.

[spyder]

Originally Posted by calibrax

Odd. The front doors should have worked ok, as the first pull on the interior handle pops up the door lock mechanism, and then the second pull opens the door. No electrics involved, and no child locks on the front doors. The only way this wouldn't work is if the door had been locked from outside with the key, i.e. deadlocked.

If the wire nicked, was the one that receives the signal for the deadlock, it would have deadlocked the doors.

[chipsceola]

That thought brought back memories .....of a Ford Fairlane back in 1958/59, power hood, power windows, power everything and unheard of then, had electrical problems, driver inside unable to get out while several mechanics stood there laughing their socks off.

Eventually I suppose they went to his rescue, but in the 15/20 minutes I was there all they did was enjoy his discomfort.
Chips

[Rabett_Rover]

I would stay in the car until I lose enough weight to slip seamlessly through the panel gaps into safely.