Locked keys in car. What would you do?

I used to keep my phone down my bra if I had no pocket, but I read about cancer scares and stopped immediately. I hope you and your husband are well now, and thanks for the warning which doesn’t seem to be out there much.

This was meant for cossy

Does your phone not slip out of your pocket? Mine does

Many years ago when my girls were little, one of them decided she needed a wee. So we pulled in to a layby and I got her out of the car. Then I think the other one decided she needed one too and so my husband got her out as well. I'm unsure as to how it actually happened now, but I suspect somehow DD1 shut the passenger door and locked the keys in with the car running or something. We had to call the rescue services who came eventually with a wire coat hanger and lifted the knobs!

The only upside was it was a beautiful evening and we were on the A303 with a view of Stonehenge, but obviously the girls were getting increasingly distressed, hungry and LOUD!

Jaxjacky

My phone lives in my back pocket, or on the rare occasion when I’m not wearing jeans, chinos or shorts, down my bra.
Tricky for you, if no one had answered then the window I suppose unless you have breakdown cover.

Please don’t keep your phone down your bra. I used to do this all the time when working. I got a huge lump in my breast right where the phone sat. Chemo, 5 ops, longest one 12 hours on the table, including reconstruction, and reduction of the other to attempt to match size. Followed by radiation.

Also read about a footballer who used to call his wife for long calls as he was in UK and she was abroad. He used hands free but had the phone resting in his lap. He got testicular cancer and believes it was due to the phone.

When ii had a car, the keys were on a lanyard, which i wore round my neck at all times... Also, we only had the one car!
sorry, no help.

Years ago, I had a frantic call from my Mum who had locked her keys in her car in the school car park. Unfortunately she had left the engine running and hers was the only car left so it stood all alone shaking away. She didn't want her husband to find out so she rang me so I could sneak in and get the spare key from her house. He wasn't a nasty man but the week before she had taken his car out because hers was low on fuel. When she ran his out she rang him to bring a gallon of petrol and on the way to rescue her, he ran out of fuel too. He was furious. She just didn't want him to realise how hopeless she was...!

My daughter was locked out of her car and broke a back window to get back in, the mechanic told her that it’s much cheaper to break a front window as it’s easier to replace. Just in case that’s helpful in future for someone!

I would have asked security staff first. Then a shopper second to phone rac.

RAC. My eldest works for them and can gain access to any car in moments. There are ways! Often the security guys at supermarkets are very helpful too.

Strapped three year old DGD into car seat after I had put keys on front seat, she pushed the door lock down, all the doors locked.! It was hot day and I was panicking slightly. However, she unstrapped herself, climbed into the front, and picked up the keys and pressed the unlock button!

Sago

My car has an app so I can remotely lock/unlock my car from my phone.
I recently locked my keys in the car but fortunately had my phone.

Great idea. Never heard of that before

wire coat hangars via the window or sun roof if there was one - to hook up the lock knobs not so easy these days so its the breakdown people. I once had a policeman use a credit card - not sure how.

I wonder whether Ford have a key issue as we had a problem with a company car Mondeo. Dh was about to go to work one morning and had started the engine when he realised he’d forgotten something and dashed back into the house for it. When he went back to the car it had locked itself and nothing we tried opened it again.

It sat on our drive with the engine idling for about six hours, before an engineer arrived to unlock it. Oops!

well done you.. in the past I've had someone open the car door using a wire coat hanger.. nowadays I would ring the RAC always assuming I hadn't locked my bag in the car..

1987, I locked the only set of keys to the car which I'd hired at San Francisco airport, in the pocket of my jeans which I'd put in the suitcase in the boot of the car. I was in Yosemite national Park , several hours drive from San Francisco where I'd stopped to take a picture of El Capitano and change into shorts as I was too hot. Fortunately some climbers appeared and using some tools from their climbing equipment managed to dismantle enough of the back seat for me to get my arm into the boot and into my suitcase to retrieve the keys which fortunately I'd left unzipped. I had a stress migraine for the rest of the day.

I think you were very sensible in the action you took.

I live and die in stretch jeans and always have my phone in my back pocket.

Witzend

My car once managed to lock itself - with my bag and keys inside - when I was at the council tip!
I called the AA or RAC, or whoever we were with at the time, and the nice chap got it open with no damage.
He said he’d known it to happen before with that car - a Ford Focus.

Of course my phone was in my bag! I had to ask one of the tip staff to phone dh at work - luckily I knew his number - and he phoned the AA/RAC for me.

I have to tell you a story that still makes me cringe!

28 years ago my daughter was 13 and we had a son of nearly 2.
Daughter had left her pony in a friends paddock for the weekend so we went after school on a Monday to get her.

I left son in car while we tacked up pony he wailed so I gave him my car keys to quieten him.

As daughter was leading pony round the car she shut the open door, therefore locking her brother and keys in the car with mobile phone.

I had to play peek a boo for nearly an hour through the car windows while daughter “rode to the rescue” to get home and tell her father to come and rescue me with the spare keys!

My daughter was so thrilled with her part in the rescue she told anyone that would listen, many people quite rightly asked what on earth was I thinking!

I think you did very well!
I am surprised the RAC number isn't on your windscreen. I know AA off by heart.

My worst car nightmare was driving my DD and baby DGD to hospital for a specialist appointment which they had waited 6 months for and running out of diesel on a winding narrow but fast Highland road with no phone signal.

Somebody stopped to offer help and pushed the car to a slightly safer place, managed to call a taxi which eventually came and knowing the back roads to Aberdeen raced us there on time. My DD was speechless at my incompetence but the baby was fine! I called the AA from the hospital and they met me at the car after another expensive taxi ride.

When my three were little we went to playgroup one morning. I parked and put my keys on the passenger seat to leave my hands free to get the baby out of his seat. The other two would have been about 5 and 7.

I said loudly and clearly to them NOT to lock their doors because I didn't have the key with me. Of course they DID lock them!

This would have been late 1988.

Fortunately there was a phone box nearby with an actual phone book in it. I can't remember exactly what happened but I must have borrowed a coin to make a phone call to a local locksmith who came and rescued us.

I knew the locksmith because I had had to use their services before when I'd locked myself out of the flat.

Nowadays l always double check I have my key before closing the car or the front door.

(if anyone is wondering why a 7-yeat-old is at a playgroup, this is Germany where kids don't start school till 7. We had a little private playgroup once a week where some other English speaking mothers and I would play with the children, read to them etc in English all morning. We met in a church hall so weren't near anyone's home.)

Our RAC runs out in November so I’ll give Start Rescue a call

Thanks

The AA or car dealer will have a solution a car thief certainly will, a modern car it’s impossible to lock with keys inside ( I’ve tried several times)

Try Start Rescue.
No don't work for them but have helped me on several occasions and a very reasonable price.

When my ignition key broke inside the slot recently I phoned the RAC to be told that they don’t take phone calls anymore you have to report the problem online.

Except of course they don’t ‘do’ broken keys in locks.

Ore recently we broke down next to a lovely village pub, again we had to go online to report it.

I might change from the incredibly expensive RAC to something more user friendly.