Key stuck and won't turn, engine lock out message on panel can you help?

[peterok]

We are locked out of our car and it will not release the key, waiting for triple a bored out of our minds....help!

[lodownlv]

LOL your computer is trippin out try puting the car in nutural and taking the neg cable off the batery and then put the car in park then put neg bat cable back on then press unlock button on remote then try removeing out the ignition.walla!! it thought you where stealing your own car.. or where ya :-)

[mruwka]

where did you get this info

are you a lex tech??????

[lodownlv]

ive had this issue before when i first got this ride lexus tech guided me on the phone.. santa clara county lexus..
i sence some sarcasm their with all those ??? marks

[lodownlv]

i c that you have a cert in toyota? when i took my rx300 to toyota they said they couldnt help me take it to lexus down the st LOL

[mruwka]

i apologize not sarcasm intended.....i was just impressed by the detail of that info your were passing on...here is the deal on the Toyota dealership....if they are not certified as a lex dealership and or the same owner dose not have a lex dealership, they probably did not have the access to the lex fsm....although the fix sounded simple, with out the TSB's or the FSM's it would take them a long time to figure it out....

Yes I have an
A.A.S. in automotive technology, specializing in T-Ten Toyota
&
B.S. Automotive Program, Southern Illinois University, in Carbondale, Expected in August of 2004
Plus
I will be ASE Master Certified with
L1.. Advanced Engine Performance Specialist certification...by this May

[lodownlv]

its all good.. no offence taken.. by the way good shit on the certs. keep going! i would take up this as a occupation but it seems like its all dirty work for not enogh pay.. i pay my self by doing the jobs my self if needed soo good job! also what do you do for a living curently.

[mruwka]

Its hard, dirty, dangerous, and many other things…but I would not trade it for anything else….
Right now im a full time student at SIUC but im graduating in August….

Automotive is a very lucrative business, you just have to know where to look….i heard of Toyota techs making 100k a year…..and all the had was an high school diploma….i think that’s not too bad don’t you???

In this business you have to be good and you really have to love what you do…..if not you will not make it..

Ps
Have plans to start my own shop when I graduate….


and you what do you do???

[mruwka]

book time .... not real time makes all of the difference...

[lodownlv]

100 k a year doing what exactily? thats plenty fo me

[mruwka]

heres how......if your making $25/hr book time...

a job comes in you sell a service to a costumer and it will take you according to the book 8hrs.

but you been doing the same service for several years know and you know all of the shortcuts that you can take, and instead of 8hrs it takes you 4 but you will still get payed for the full 8......so two services in an 8hr work day = 16hrs which you will get payed for, for that day....cool

I interned under on tech that put out 20hrs of work every 8hr work day for five days a week….. * $25 per hour and after 80 hrs a week the scale goes up to $26 and after 100hr a week it goes up to $28....28*125/hrs.= $3500 a week * 4 = 14000 a month ;p.....*12months a year= $168,000
Know subtract the days that he’s on vacation, days that he dose not make 20hrs and you ll end up close to 100k a year.. if your good!!

[lodownlv]

dam i got to research this!!

[mruwka]

hahaha.......
heres a # for you....on avarage every lift with a good tech makes 100k of profit for the shop...
thats why im starting my shop...

[lodownlv]

shit you wouldnt happen to be in califorina? id work for ya :-)

[mruwka]

sorry.....chicago