Help Help Help!!!! Huge Emergency!!!

I should have known something was up earlier today when my car peed on my foot....

Long story short: I have a 1994 Infiniti G20, and the keys are locked in and the car's running. NO, not my fault, I am NOT THAT STUPID!!!

I am at my parents' house (no spare keys here), and it has been snowing like mad today, earlier it was pouring rain. My desert car is NOT used to that kind of weather, it only sees a drizzle of rain about twice yearly in this climate.

I decided to warm up the car before going home because it is midnight here and FREEZING, so about 1/2 hr ago I started the car up (from leaning in the passenger side, if it matters) and shut the door.

I went to get in later and thought the car was frozen shut, but we looked in with a flashlight and the doors are all locked.

This is doubly impossible. First because the car has an idiot-proof thing where the doors WILL NOT LOCK except with key if there's a key in the ignition. Secondly, the passenger side door (the one I started the car from) is mechanically BROKEN and CANNOT lock unless via key from the outside. IT has NEVER locked via the remote. It has NEVER locked from the inside. But somehow, it is locked, with the keys inside, and the car running.

I have a sunroof if it matters. Don't know if I can hack in that way. Don't know how to shut off the car. If I could just turn it off I could borrow one of my parents' cars and pick mine up in the morning (but I still couldn't get into my house).

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE does anyone have any ideas??? I just put in a fresh tank so there are about 13.5 gallons before it runs out of gas and I just want to go home!!! I have work tomorrow!!!

call a locksmith man, or break it with a hammer and get a new window....thats about the best I can offer :|

OK, right now the sherrif is coming out (small town) but if anyone has any suggestions they're greatly appreciated!!!!!

BTW..I would call a locksmith but they charge extra for middle-of-the-night and I don't have $75!!!

break your window and say that someone did it and your insurance will pick up the tab :D

In a similar situation ,I have stalled the engine by wedging a potato over the end of the exhaust.Too bad if you have a 6" tip......

Originally posted by taranaki
In a similar situation ,I have stalled the engine by wedging a potato over the end of the exhaust.Too bad if you have a 6" tip......

My mom had that idea, and my dad says don't try it, it'll be bad.

(Can't believe no one's laughing at me yet.) This is the dumbest thing that's ever happened to me. :rolleyes: :bloated:

how the hell did it all lock up on you?


seems odd

What you need is a car thief :/:(


Or a locksmith or a towie

Originally posted by tazdev
how the hell did it all lock up on you?


seems odd

My guess is, something about all the moisture today short-circuited something in the electrical...

The police are trying to hog-wire the window open..isn't working. Damn these sturdy japanese cars!!!

OK, the police gave up and went home - now a locksmith is on the way. It will be a mere $50 to unlock the door - decent price considering it's 1:30 a.m., freezing cold and snowing, and the gas in the car is worth half that.

Oh, BTW about the car peeing on me, I had my left foot on the dead pedal (yeah, an auto :( ) and cold water leaked onto my foot, 4 different times. So water has definitely gotten somewhere it's not supposed to.

So thanks, people. Appreciate the help. Go ahead and laugh now. :bloated:

Originally posted by boingo82


So thanks, people. Appreciate the help. Go ahead and laugh now. :bloated:


I would...............But this one time (about this time last year) I for some reason thought my V6 Peugeot 6O7 (Petrol) was an HDi........and er.......filled it with diesel :o :o :o :o

Glad it sorted itself out Boingo. Maybe an idea to install a remote starter in case it ever happens again. :( Maybe time to post in my Shitty Day thread.

:rolleyes: Thats the problem with new high tech cars you see, anything can happen. An old car would never lock up on you by moisture on central locking or whatever you got, well I hope your ok for work in the morning Boingo, 3AM now isn't it?(Taking a stab in the dark there :D )

Originally posted by boingo82


My guess is, something about all the moisture today short-circuited something in the electrical...

The police are trying to hog-wire the window open..isn't working. Damn these sturdy japanese cars!!!
why do people start blaming jap cars when they have some problem? It doesnt mean all of them are bad. Sheesh

Originally posted by boingo82
(Can't believe no one's laughing at me yet.)


Im laughing :D

..............alot.




Im surprised it locked you out, Nissans and Honda's are the only Japa cars I know of which have idiot proof door locks which make it almost impossible to lock the keys in the car.

Prehaps your car is trying to tell you something?

like let me buy it:D j/k

Originally posted by boingo82


First because the car has an idiot-proof thing


so THATS why you bought the car eh boingo:p

hope u got home at a decent hour

Unlucky! Isn't central locking great? It must have been a quiet neighbourhood, weren't you afraid of someone wandering by and stealing your car as it sat there idling (until the doors locked, that is)?

I had a friend who did something similar. It was an icy day so he started his car and got out to scrape his windows. As he got to the back he noticed that his hatch wasn't closed properly so he gave it a push. This closed it, but unfortunately it also triggered the central locking and left him stranded in the cold.

I ended up making a 40 mile return trip to fetch his spare remote for the locking (he didn't have a spare key :rolleyes: ) only to find that the battery in the spare remote was flat :rolleyes: :rolleyes: In the end we had to call for someone to come and break into the car.

I laughed my ass off at the time. He laughed some time afterwards ;)

I can't figure out how your G did that b/c it can't lock if the car is running. I've tried it a few too many times. Heck, I just accidentally locked my doors yesterday while the car was running and it threw its little hissy fit and left the doors unlocked in the end...

I'm thinking your wiring needs to be checked over b/c it's definately not right.

Originally posted by Vyacheslav

why do people start blaming jap cars when they have some problem? It doesnt mean all of them are bad. Sheesh

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Please don't get me wrong. I love my car. I really, truly, love it. It is by far the best car I've ever owned.

I was sarcastically lamenting the fact that my car is difficult to break in to, therefore making it "sturdy". You should have seen the difficulty the police had even getting their hogwire into the car...the door was simply too tight. Then, when that failed, they were unable to jimmy the locks open (with a 'slim jim'). In actuality, I think that "difficult-to-break-into-ness" is a fantastic feature in an automobile. One thing the Japanese have a reputation for is very tight tolerances in both mechanicals and body panels..

Here's an interesting fact for you, gleaned from the Discovery Channel. The average American car, when driven into a lake or other large body of water, takes just over 3 minutes to become completely submerged. The average Japanese car takes nearly 8 minutes. (Got this from a show about a lady who buckled her infant and 3-yr old into their seats and rolled the car into a lake, just because her 'crush' didn't like kids. These were the facts given by the police when they talked about how long this woman had to rescue her children, but she didn't even look back.) Of course this data is circa 1995 or so, so it should be taken with a grain of salt.

Regardless, I'm not even mad at the car for locking me out, rather, I think it's funny. (Unfortunate, but funny.)

Also, to Tangie, strangely enough, all my other electricals function perfectly. The car has never had any electrical problems and doesn't appear to now, besides that little lock incident.

I know what you mean about it being impossible to lock the doors when the key's in the ignition, and you're half right. The G20 doesn't let you lock the doors with the key in the ignition IF any door is open....however, if all doors are closed, and the key's in the ignition, it IS possible to lock all doors from the inside..... Given that my only set of available keys was in the car, and no other humans were, I have to come to the conclusion that the car locked itself, because I tested the "anti-lock-the-keys-in" feature and it still works. Therefore I couldn't possibly have done this myself...

I'm quite sure that the water leaking onto my left foot had something to do with it.

Originally posted by Focus2000
Unlucky! Isn't central locking great? It must have been a quiet neighbourhood, weren't you afraid of someone wandering by and stealing your car as it sat there idling (until the doors locked, that is)?...

Hardly a "neighborhood" at all. My parents live 7 miles out in the boonies (dirt roads), with a bunch of polygs for neighbors, and a private circle drive. No one in the neighborhood locks their houses, nor their cars.