urgent keys locked in car e46

[RossYB]

Drilling holes and smashing tail lights???how do ye know you can reach the keys?

See the pic I posted of the tail-light.... Large enough to get your hand in and get the keys.

Rear light is only 3 bolts, Dunno how awkward a quarter window is to replace?

Does an E46 Deadlock?

[Scottfreee3]

There is a manual boot release cord. I don't want to say more on a forum, but digging holes as in the picture above and smashing Windows is not the way to get at it.

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[John_D]

@[JohnH] father had to do it once to an E60, deffo a quick but brutal solution.

[claude]

ordered a. A valet key will have in 2 days
also in meantime I slightly wedged the door and managed to get a long slim thing in there it tends to go towards the door and does not give me enough angle to reach the switch and anyway I just realised the switch will not work
no way a coat hangar will pull the lever I think it s too flexible

[E46Padge]

Coat hanger will do it just put a loop on the end of it.

[Venom]

ordered a. A valet key will have in 2 days
also in meantime I slightly wedged the door and managed to get a long slim thing in there it tends to go towards the door and does not give me enough angle to reach the switch and anyway I just realised the switch will not work
no way a coat hangar will pull the lever I think it s too flexible

Wrap a small magnet with the coat hanger insert hanger and use magnet to pick up keys. Learned this when a friend used to regularly lock her keys in her shit box corsa