"Well, I won’t beat on you (some people really seem to enjoy “RAMMING” that home :wink - wink: play the music from Deliverance to catch my implied intent on the REAL origin of their demeanor - as I’m trying to be subtle) about it. "
Sorry to say it, but once you take position and the wheels hit the public road, it is all yours and the dealer has no legal responsibility unless they have given you some sort of written warranty.
See what I mean? 
[b] Advising someone who can mess up checking that their door keys work too charge the battery through the tail light is (no music needed) asking for trouble. When you make a mistake with this little plan are you then going to ask for electrical system repair, paid for by the Dealer?
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Here we have your classic example of “you’ll shoot your eye out, kid” .where the assumption that you’re an incompetent idiot and are assured failure.
This is usually the result of a lifetime of mistakes being compressed into one bit of advice. It stifle innovation and ingenuity by amplifying potential risks and stays with the safety of doing nothing.
Just be helpless and develop NO problem solving skills and enjoy being at the mercy of others for the rest of your life.
Have you gotten into the car yet ?
How good with a coat hanger are you ?
A little wood scrap wedge and a coat hanger and I’d be in that car in ten minutes.
Pull the door frame away from the body at the upper-most rear corner and insert the wedge to hold open a space.
With proper planning , a coat hanger can be bent in the right places to grab the inside door handle and pull.
With a longer rod you can reach accross the car to the opposite door handle too.
Just being curious for a minute, but do you have any actual automotive service experience, either in the shop, the service counter, or behind a service manager’s desk?
(Not directed at Mr. Green)
Yes, it does appear that all external lighting is through relays. Impossible to get a jumper to feedback to the door lock module that way. Please excuse me, I stand corrected.
I can see from the other posts that the tailight charge idea has fallen out of favor without anymore help from me. Yes I do make judgement on a person that can go so long and not know that their door key is useless, I would not expect this person to be able to safely handle anything involving electricity.
You also have probably seen it many times, a car blocking the service drive,with the keys locked inside. This usually happens durning the morning intake rush. We had the best set of slim jims money can buy and I have seen the best take up too half an hour on some cars. You get fast at this when you know where to grab the lock/unlock rod at, it can get very frustrating at times.
Very true. I’ve seen cars left in front of the service bay door with the doors locked, no key in sight, and a note on the windshield that states the owner is going out of town for a s few days or a week and they will pick up the car when they return.
Unfortunately, the owners left the vehicles but took the keys with them when they left town.
Good point. But my thinking is that if an original key was duplcated he’ll know at that point whether it was the doors or cylinder that was replaced.
If it was the cylinder, then he’ll now have the key to the door as well as the (existing) key to the ignition.
If it was the door, he can then either have a locksmith create a door key or even change the door lock cylinders such that he’ll now have the key to the doors.
Either way, he’s going to end up with two keys, one for the doors and one for the ignition.
I, too, am wondering if the o.p. can get in their car without hiring someone. That’s why I suggested the coat hanger method.
All the break-in tool sets use the same basic theory.
However, many of those tools are dependent on the lock circuit being hot. ( I’ve used the coat hanger for that too. Chevy Tahoe parked…engine running…keys inside…remote inside…doors locked. “hey Ken, you’re a car guy, can you unlock my truck ?” )
Last month I got in a 99 Mitsubishi Galant by pulling the door handle exactly as I described. ( I have a break-in tool set but used a coat hanger for its bend-ability )
My wrecker driver and repo guys can get in anything. I just ordered a bright pink reach-over rod set for one of the repo guys.
My body shop guy got a right side door open that neither inner or outer handle would operate. Locked or unlocked the door would not open. Push, pull, swear, or curse, nothing would open it in the parking lot. Took it to Henry and it was open in five minutes.
My guess is that the key has a chip in it. Since the car battery is dead, it won’t work.
The car door can be opened using a small airbag and wedge to pry the door open enough to manually unlock the door.Locksmiths, shops and law enforcement use this method.
Charge the battery.If the key doesn’t work, it might have to be reprogrammed. The dealer is NOT at fault for your brother leaving the lights on even if the vehicle had unlimited warranty.
ok4450, Why do people park in front of a bay door? I guess they figure they can leap-frog their car over the one already in the shop.
Its kinda like parking your car in front of the drive-thru window, locking it, and going inside to eat! Who cares about anyone else?
Have you ever been in an elevator? When the door opens, nobody waits to see if someone is getting out 1st.Which in turn allows for more room. No, they rush the elevator without any concern that someone is going to get out first.
Most people think all cars in the shop belong to the mechanics, and they never see daylight.In the middle of the day, I always have people ask me-“that your car”? Oh yeah, I pay myself to work on my own car during working hours.