locked out

[RUSSELLM]

My pal has bought a 55 plate C6, well he actually bought it two years ago, but it's took this long to repair & put on the road.

He assures me that he opened the door by putting his hand in the little area where I'd expect to find the handle.

Well the battery's dead and the keys are inside

Is there a secret way in ? If so can someone email it to me please.

Failing that, is there anybody in the Birmingham area(Halesowen) who can come out to it please ?

[JimexPL]

I seem to recall that the cheapest solution would be to order a key from Stratstone PDi centre or Bauer Millett, then access the car via the hidden boot lock (near the number plate), then open the door with the emergency release flap in the boot.
If for some reason you cannot ket a spare key, destroying the boot lock with a screwdriver is probably your second cheapest option.

Thinking about it, if the battery had been flat the window will not have returned to the fully closed position. Get something long enough to hook the emergency release at the side of the seat and you will be back in.

James

[mitch_]

James, if the battery went flat after you shut the door(highly likely) then the window will be back where it is supposed to be. I hate to ask stupid questions but does your friend not know the whereabouts of the spare key itself??

That aside there is a way round this but being absolutely honest there is no way I would divulge such information across the internet or to a party I didn't know to be 110% genuine.

[JimexPL]

I was suggesting that if the car had been stored until flat and the battery was subsequently charged up it is unlikely that he would have reset the window operation.

So even if there was charge in the car when he opened it, the windows would have dropped but not gone back up.

[RUSSELLM]

Thanks folks. I gather he's already tried the dealers, but as the car isn't yet UK registered they have no records of it from the Vin number he gave them.
At least that's what they told him.
Yep, the key's with the alarm fob inside the car
He's going to get Green Flag out to it.
I'll let you know how they get on

[Ask_Elvis]

Shoot out the glass Son.
Works every time

[Le Man]

If you can send us a copy of your V5 we can help

[RUSSELLM]

Le Man said:

If you can send us a copy of your V5 we can help

Many thanks & thanks for the mail

I'm pretty sure he hasn't got a V5 yet, I think it's booked in for an MOT & SVA test this week though.

As soon as he mentioned Green Flag, I thought, sod it, I'll leave him to it

Thanks for the offer though

[Godzilla]

When this happened to me at Silverstone last year, the RAC guy managed to hook the keys and actually take it off the key fob it was attached to (which would never have squeezed out through the tiny gap he managed to get the piece of wire in through) and pull it past the glass!

I told him he would make more money being a gynaecologist...

[vetteheadracer]

Godzilla said:

When this happened to me at Silverstone last year, the RAC guy managed to hook the keys and actually take it off the key fob it was attached to (which would never have squeezed out through the tiny gap he managed to get the piece of wire in through) and pull it past the glass!

I told him he would make more money being a gynaecologist...

Also Dieter did the same thing on the same day but left his eys in the trunk and the car auto locked itself over time but we found there is a way to get in but as Mitch says not something I would divulge on an internet forum. Not sure in this case that this method would work anyway given the dead battery. You basically need the spare key and insert it into the lock plate above the rear number plate to open the rear hatch, then you can get to the battery to replace it or re-charge it. If the battery is flat getting into the car doors isn't really going to help as the rear hatch electric switch won't work and you will need to crawl between the seats and find the manual rear hatch override whereas the spare key will just open the hatch.

[JimexPL]

He's talking about a C6, so the battery is under the bonnet, unlike your Z06.