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[ketho]

Not been on here much since registering as work (and then money) dried up for me to fix my car. http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1231020751/15#15 for the original post I'm still going to fix it but not for mayby another month or two.

I went to get some stuff out the car last week and now I can't get in it !

The battery has gone flat cos I was too lazy to keep it charged and now I find out that my key doesn't open the drivers door or the boot (its an estate). I can see the lock moving when I turn the key in the drivers door but it only moves a little and doesn't unlock. The boot lock doesn't turn at all.

I'm hopeing this just needs me to get the bonet open, somehow, and charge the battery for the key or fob to work. I'm not holding to much faith in the fob after a flat battery tho.

Any help with how I get in to my car would be amazing.

cheers

[Chris_H]

Have you tried the door handle after turning the key (hard).  I know it sounds obvious but I forgot!

[largecol]

Bit of WD40 in the lock and jiggle backwards and forwards(the key- not YOU) then turn key to open. Might feel really stiff, but will go eventually!

[largecol]

Oh yeah, AND try the handle, coz the button may not pop up.!!!

[Welung666]

Bit of WD40 in the lock and jiggle backwards and forwards(the key- not YOU) then turn key to open. Might feel really stiff, but will go eventually!

Throw your WD40 in the bin cause it's shite and get some PlusGas

[webby23]

Ring the AA mate, tell them your battery is flat and let them sort it out.

Locked myself out of our 2001 MV6 in Llandudno not long after we had it, the AA man came and within 2 mins was inside with no damage at all done to the car.

I told him there was £10 in it for him if he was very very careful, and bless him, he was..........

[Andy B]

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Any help with how I get in to my car would be amazing.

cheers

Jack up the front nearside  corner and carefully connect a pair of jump leads to the starter postive connection and a good earth (zero volts for those who play with electrickery on a day to day basis )

[ketho]

Have you tried the door handle after turning the key (hard).  I know it sounds obvious but I forgot!

First thing I tried.....lol

Bit of WD40 in the lock and jiggle backwards and forwards(the key- not YOU) then turn key to open. Might feel really stiff, but will go eventually!

I've tried that but the key turns no problem (about a quater turn) but doesn't unlock and i think the boot is a different key that I don't have  

Jack up the front nearside  corner and carefully connect a pair of jump leads to the starter postive connection and a good earth (zero volts for those who play with electrickery on a day to day basis )

Where is the "starter positive postion connection" ?
Also can this be done without jacking it up, my trolly jack is in the car....doh!

[VX1]

Did you dead lock the car before the battery went flat? If not keep trying the key in the door lock and keep turning it, yes it will be stiff but it will go eventually even though you might think the key will break. On the other hand if you are with a breakdown company like the AA ring them and tell them you ar locked out of the car and they WILL get in for you and pop the bonnet.

Paul

[ketho]

Did you dead lock the car before the battery went flat? If not keep trying the key in the door lock and keep turning it, yes it will be stiff but it will go eventually even though you might think the key will break. On the other hand if you are with a breakdown company like the AA ring them and tell them you ar locked out of the car and they WILL get in for you and pop the bonnet.

Paul

Is the dead lock when you press the lock button on the remote twice, if so then yeah I probibly did.
I'm not a member of the AA or anything like that.

[Andy B]

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Where is the "starter positive postion connection" ?
Also can this be done without jacking it up, my trolly jack is in the car....doh!

Red cable. You'd need to be very very slim!

[avionista]

I made up this tool, using a paint roller handle, to release my Omega bonnet catch:




You need to insert it through the front grille, near the top, on the side nearest to the passenger headlight. The 'hook' at the end needs to be pointing upwards and it is used to pull the bonnet release-catch lever towards the passenger side of the car. Took me less than five minutes 'fiddling' to open my bonnet.

[ketho]

You rather' dancer !!

Have you tried the door handle after turning the key (hard).  I know it sounds obvious but I forgot!

When this reply was the first one I thought "yep, should have seen that coming, very funny"

Reading over this after having tried to crawl under the car and failing to do so. I was about to cut the top off a roller and thought 'balls to it, try the key just one more time'.

Turned the key HARD, big clunk and what I thought was a broker key turned out to be an unlocked door....SWEEET

Cheers for the help all, I'll probibly be back for more once I start buying the bits I need.

Oh and Chris_H, sorry for not listening in the first place (unless you were actually taking the pi$$)

[Agemo]

Avionista, I have to say that is brilliant, I am obsessed by the fact that if my bonnet cable snapped, it could be very serious. I was going to rig a "spare emergency cable" even if it was a bit of string, just in case. Nice to know it can be opened with a home made Gizmo, I will have to make one.