Vehicle Lockout

[zen_]

Mostly just a rant thread, and a possible warning for anyone who gets locked out of their vehicle.

[skip the next 2 paragraphs if you don't want to read about me being dumb and ranting]

I was out mountain biking alone today before snow hits and closes the trails down for the year probably. Loaded my bike in the bed when done, threw all my stuff in the back (including my pouch with the key in it, and my phone that I had unlocked the vehicle with). Shut the back door, and the doors all locked. I was the only one in the most remote parking lot of a state park, it's 25 degrees outside, my phone and keys are locked inside, so I had to ride my bike (with no gloves) about 2 miles to the ranger station. Call Progressive to use roadside since I couldn't use the Ford app on a good Samaritan's phone (multi factor went to my phone, locked inside), and 45 minutes later a tow truck arrives.

For 2 hours the AAA driver tried to get inside with a metal hook, a lot of it with me trying to guide him to the door unlock. I can see that the door trim and the paint around the door is being absolutely demolished. Finally he gives up and wants to tow the pickup to a locksmith, but it's in park with the parking brake on too. I see him putting it on skates and am like, no fudging way we are going to demolish a transmission today too yanking this up on a tow truck, so make a decision to just break the window in with a hammer and move along since it will be 2 more hours for someone to come pick me up, but the park closes in 1 hour, at which point I will have no shelter as winter bears down. Drive 2 hours home with no drivers side rear window (snowing most of the way). Now I have to get a window replaced, all this fixed, and file a claim with AAA for all the damages.

Lessons learned:

• The vehicle can randomly lock, my friend who owns a tow truck also said Fords are notorious for randomly locking them when he's hauling them.
• Call a locksmith if you're ever locked out, unlocking this car with a hook is not for amateurs obviously due to the lock button location, and the handle being hard to get at too

Good times...

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[Tim d]

Mostly just a rant thread, and a possible warning for anyone who gets locked out of their vehicle.

[skip the next 2 paragraphs if you don't want to read about me being dumb and ranting]

I was out mountain biking alone today before snow hits and closes the trails down for the year probably. Loaded my bike in the bed when done, threw all my stuff in the back (including my pouch with the key in it, and my phone that I had unlocked the vehicle with). Shut the back door, and the doors all locked. I was the only one in the most remote parking lot of a state park, it's 25 degrees outside, my phone and keys are locked inside, so I had to ride my bike (with no gloves) about 2 miles to the ranger station. Call Progressive to use roadside since I couldn't use the Ford app on a good Samaritan's phone (multi factor went to my phone, locked inside), and 45 minutes later a tow truck arrives.

For 2 hours the AAA driver tried to get inside with a metal hook, a lot of it with me trying to guide him to the door unlock. I can see that the door trim and the paint around the door is being absolutely demolished. Finally he gives up and wants to tow the pickup to a locksmith, but it's in park with the parking brake on too. I see him putting it on skates and am like, no fudging way we are going to demolish a transmission today too yanking this up on a tow truck, so make a decision to just break the window in with a hammer and move along since it will be 2 more hours for someone to come pick me up, but the park closes in 1 hour, at which point I will have no shelter as winter bears down. Drive 2 hours home with no drivers side rear window (snowing most of the way). Now I have to get a window replaced, all this fixed, and file a claim with AAA for all the damages.

Lessons learned:

• The vehicle can randomly lock, my friend who owns a tow truck also said Fords are notorious for randomly locking them when he's hauling them.
• Call a locksmith if you're ever locked out, unlocking this car with a hook is not for amateurs obviously due to the lock button location, and the handle being hard to get at too

Good times...

What i think is dumb is how hard it is to put in neutral if its not started. Modern vehicles, modern issues.

 

[sanpablo]

Mostly just a rant thread, and a possible warning for anyone who gets locked out of their vehicle.

[skip the next 2 paragraphs if you don't want to read about me being dumb and ranting]

I was out mountain biking alone today before snow hits and closes the trails down for the year probably. Loaded my bike in the bed when done, threw all my stuff in the back (including my pouch with the key in it, and my phone that I had unlocked the vehicle with). Shut the back door, and the doors all locked. I was the only one in the most remote parking lot of a state park, it's 25 degrees outside, my phone and keys are locked inside, so I had to ride my bike (with no gloves) about 2 miles to the ranger station. Call Progressive to use roadside since I couldn't use the Ford app on a good Samaritan's phone (multi factor went to my phone, locked inside), and 45 minutes later a tow truck arrives.

For 2 hours the AAA driver tried to get inside with a metal hook, a lot of it with me trying to guide him to the door unlock. I can see that the door trim and the paint around the door is being absolutely demolished. Finally he gives up and wants to tow the pickup to a locksmith, but it's in park with the parking brake on too. I see him putting it on skates and am like, no fudging way we are going to demolish a transmission today too yanking this up on a tow truck, so make a decision to just break the window in with a hammer and move along since it will be 2 more hours for someone to come pick me up, but the park closes in 1 hour, at which point I will have no shelter as winter bears down. Drive 2 hours home with no drivers side rear window (snowing most of the way). Now I have to get a window replaced, all this fixed, and file a claim with AAA for all the damages.

Lessons learned:

• The vehicle can randomly lock, my friend who owns a tow truck also said Fords are notorious for randomly locking them when he's hauling them.
• Call a locksmith if you're ever locked out, unlocking this car with a hook is not for amateurs obviously due to the lock button location, and the handle being hard to get at too

Good times...

My daughter's 2002 Focus would auto lock. If I started it to warm it up to scrape the windshield it would auto lock unless I hit the unlock button before closing door. I would leave the window partially open just to be safe.
I lock my key in a faraday bag when I kayak but have a door only key hidden under the Mav and also have the door key pad.

 

[icegradner]

No it doesn’t randomly lock itself, you likely hit the manual lock switch on the door by mistake. There are a ton of threads about this here, so this happens a lot, and each time it’s the same reason. This is what makes having the keypad so great. I locked my keys in once, but with the keypad I was back in the truck in seconds.

 

[Chico]

Don't you have the Ford pass app? I have it on my 25 Maverick my 22 Mustang and my dad's 19 ranger and you are able to unlock your car with it if you like the keys in it I believe I have never locked my keys in the car for a long time and usually I keep my key fob in my pocket at all times I'm sorry this happened to you

 

[icegradner]

Don't you have the Ford pass app? I have it on my 25 Maverick my 22 Mustang and my dad's 19 ranger and you are able to unlock your car with it if you like the keys in it I believe I have never locked my keys in the car for a long time and usually I keep my key fob in my pocket at all times I'm sorry this happened to you

Did you read his post at all? He said the phone was locked in the truck.

 

[Chico]

Yes I did read the post but I must have skipped it because he said he was ranting and I did not see that the phone was locked in his truck excuse the F out of me!

 

[Chico]

I failed the Evelyn wood reading dynamics program

 

[Art Vandelay]

No it doesn’t randomly lock itself, you likely hit the manual lock switch on the door by mistake. There are a ton of threads about this here, so this happens a lot, and each time it’s the same reason. This is what makes having the keypad so great. I locked my keys in once, but with the keypad I was back in the truck in seconds.

This has been argued many times and I personally have no idea what the truth really is with all of these auto door locking issues. However, in this case it appears you are 100% incorrect because he stated he shut the rear door and all of the doors locked. He didn't even open the front door. See below. If this is true then it appears his truck did in fact auto lock the doors. Manually locking one rear door would and should not lock all doors. It has never done that in any car I've owned in close to 40 years since I've been driving.

Mostly just a rant thread, and a possible warning for anyone who gets locked out of their vehicle.

I was out mountain biking alone today before snow hits and closes the trails down for the year probably. Loaded my bike in the bed when done, threw all my stuff in the back (including my pouch with the key in it, and my phone that I had unlocked the vehicle with). Shut the back door, and the doors all locked. I was the only one in the most remote parking lot of a state park, it's 25 degrees outside, my phone and keys are locked inside, so I had to ride my bike (with no gloves) about 2 miles to the ranger station. Call Progressive to use roadside since I couldn't use the Ford app on a good Samaritan's phone (multi factor went to my phone, locked inside), and 45 minutes later a tow truck arrives.

 

[zen_]

No it doesn’t randomly lock itself, you likely hit the manual lock switch on the door by mistake. There are a ton of threads about this here, so this happens a lot, and each time it’s the same reason. This is what makes having the keypad so great. I locked my keys in once, but with the keypad I was back in the truck in seconds.

Very well could have been, but I don't remember opening the front door. I was pretty tired and just tossing all my stuff in the car to get going. After this incident I am going to look into how much it cost to have the dealer add that keypad so I can lock the key in the vehicle while I'm biking, and have two ways to get back in (keypad and ford pass).

Feeling better about smashing the window in though, or I probably would have had even longer and wilder day + a destroyed transmission and / or parking brake.

 

[Cherokee]

There is no way In hell I’ll damage mine like that !
I’ll call a wrecker with Dollie’s and have it towed into my dealer. They can open it without damage.

2nd option. My second key fob stays in my house. I’ll take a cab home and back.

 

[zen_]

There is no way In hell I’ll damage mine like that !
I’ll call a wrecker with Dollie’s and have it towed into my dealer. They can open it without damage.

2nd option. My second key fob stays in my house. I’ll take a cab home and back.

FWIW the dealer said they had no special way of getting inside the vehicle either besides the mis-used entry tools used here. Service manager actually directed me to the Ford app service number to check if I could add a number to multi-factor authentication to login from another phone and unlock with the app. As someone who works in IT, I didn't even want to explore that because there's no point in MFA if Ford can override on a phone call with social engineering (internet indicates there is a lost MFA reset method that takes a few days).

 

[TrailMaster]

Man that AAA gorilla mauled your truck. I can't imagine myself standing there watching that happen and not going totally ballistic.

 

[Fcnrwy]

Lessons learned:

• The vehicle can randomly lock, my friend who owns a tow truck also said Fords are notorious for randomly locking them when he's hauling them.
• Call a locksmith if you're ever locked out, unlocking this car with a hook is not for amateurs obviously due to the lock button location, and the handle being hard to get at too

Good times...

OMG.. What a HACK-JOB...

Actually, the Days of using a "Hook" to Open a vehicle, are LONG GONE...

Having read, numerous posts as this one.
I have made it a point to leave the Drivers' window, ALL the way Open...OR just shut down the pup altogether...

Jerry

 

[Surly Old Bill]

man, that is a hack job.

I suppose you'll be zip-tying a dumbkey under your truck asap. I have one attached to a neodymium magnet. Cost about $30 to get it cut at a hardware store; won't start the pickup, but opens the door.

I tried to get the factory keypad installed, but typical bumbling dealership disservice center ordered wrong part and made me sit there for 6+ hours until they told me. Won't be trying THAT again. I LOVE having a keypad on my Transit(not Connect) for runs and rides where I'm worried about dropping my keys on a trail miles from the car.

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