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Freakobooster
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Sparing all of the details of this most wonderful weekend, it nearly ended in disaster. Well, it did, but clear minds and proper roadside insurance prevailed:
I locked myself out of my car. With the engine running.
:frusty:
We were leaving our weekend retreat (a secluded cabin in the woods; yeah, I'm that good), and I thought I would be a bad ass by warming up the car and turning on the seat heaters before we made our trip back to Seattle. In order to quell the "double-chirp" of the horn, I just left the key fob in the little tray, thinking that as long as the keys were in the car, even if for some reason the car locked itself, I would be able to just unlock the doors by touching the handle. That was not the case.
My car was running while I called my insurance company, and they sent a locksmith dude to locksmith my way out of this mess. The car was smart enough to shut itself off after a while. It wasn't smart enough to let me into the car even though the fob was inside.
TL;DR: I'm an idiot, so please help me understand why this happened. What is the probability that my car locked itself? What's the probability that I accidentally hit the lock button on the fob when I set the key in the tray? How can I prevent this in the future (besides not closing the door or leaving the key in my pocket during warm-up)? And just to repeat, I know this was idiotic, and stupid, and whatever... and I should have had this and should have had that (this is for you J2T), but I'm more curious into the logic that went on with the car IF the lock key wasn't pressed on accident. Thanks, M6G. You guys rock
I locked myself out of my car. With the engine running.
:frusty:
We were leaving our weekend retreat (a secluded cabin in the woods; yeah, I'm that good), and I thought I would be a bad ass by warming up the car and turning on the seat heaters before we made our trip back to Seattle. In order to quell the "double-chirp" of the horn, I just left the key fob in the little tray, thinking that as long as the keys were in the car, even if for some reason the car locked itself, I would be able to just unlock the doors by touching the handle. That was not the case.
My car was running while I called my insurance company, and they sent a locksmith dude to locksmith my way out of this mess. The car was smart enough to shut itself off after a while. It wasn't smart enough to let me into the car even though the fob was inside.
TL;DR: I'm an idiot, so please help me understand why this happened. What is the probability that my car locked itself? What's the probability that I accidentally hit the lock button on the fob when I set the key in the tray? How can I prevent this in the future (besides not closing the door or leaving the key in my pocket during warm-up)? And just to repeat, I know this was idiotic, and stupid, and whatever... and I should have had this and should have had that (this is for you J2T), but I'm more curious into the logic that went on with the car IF the lock key wasn't pressed on accident. Thanks, M6G. You guys rock
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