It was quite involved, and took ages, but the pay-off was no damage and no cost.
He wedged the rear door at the top rear of the window frame and managed to insert a tough plastic 'bladder' which he could inflate like a blood pressure testing band. This widened the gap sufficiently to get the copper rod through the small gap. He bent the rod backwards towards the boot, and managed to fish-hook the keys up from the boot floor. Once the rod was retracted far enough to have the keys right at the top of the door frame, he tried to press the buttons, but no joy.
So with a bit more gap courtesy of the plastic bladder 'wedge', and some brute force and ignorance, we got the keyfob through the gap!
Job done! AND the door sprang back as it was. I did the return journey deliberately fast to listen for air leaks, of which there were none.
Only damage recorded was to one's pride. It was pure chance that the keyfob was visible, and the metal ring on it happened to be sat up ready to be hooked.
The whole operation took ages, and there were no other ideas other than resorting to damage (i.e. taking a window out).
Apparently, with the advent of keyfobs with separate boot buttons, this thing is far more common than it used to be...
I was quite impressed as to how difficult it was to gain entry. So ato me for being such an idiot, but a
to the 211 for being tough to get into!
A Slim Jim wasn't an option apparently - are 211's immune to them (hence the no deadlock thing)?
No they aren't immune - but its hard to achieve without some scratches.
