Locked car and house key in boot

Catbells

I just lifted the lawnmower out of the boot, put they keys down while I did it and promptly shut the boot. Have just moved into rental house and the spare key is somewhere in here but where is anyones guess. Locksmith said they could do it tomorrow for £110, my insurance Green Flag came round and said he couldn't do it because it had a metal grill between the back seat and the boot. Any more suggestions please.

anewman

What type of car is it? I am guessing it's not a hatchback that you could smash the rear quarter glass of, open the car, fold the seat down, and get to the boot?!

Catbells

No you cant do that as its not a hatchback its a 10 year old BMW with some sort of metal barrier between the back seat and boot. I can't go out of the house as only have one house key to the house (renting and only been here a couple of weeks) so feel a bit marooned. Thanks goodness I hadn't shut the front door while getting the lawn mower from the bl***** car.

anewman

Is there no cable or motorised release? I.e. a lever or button to pull/push in the car.

colino

If its not a compact then I think your only options are having the locksmith using a jiggler to pop the lock, levering the boot open or smashing your way through one of the back lights.
Disappointing answer from your breakdown guy (the big two have databases of how to break in with minimal damage) so I would plump for the locksmith option.

Catbells

Colino - the locksmith option sounds as though it could break the boot and that would make the car insecure, which would affect my insurance....

Catbells

anewman wrote: »

Is there no cable or motorised release? I.e. a lever or button to pull/push in the car.

Sorry but I don't understand what this means. And even if I could pull or push the car how would that help?

colino

If your "locksmith" is going to break the lock (professionals manually pick or jiggle locks) them you would be just as well levering the boot open yourself and having the bodywork fixed later!
Phone round and find someone else to do the job properly with minimal damage.

anewman

Catbells wrote: »

Sorry but I don't understand what this means. And even if I could pull or push the car how would that help?

I mean like the way the bonnet usually opens (a lever under the dash) often there are levers or buttons to open the boot (rather than using the keys in the boot itself).

If you can find a boot lid in the same colour as yours cheaply (have a gander on ebay) an angle grinder would be a good option. TBH it would be no less secure as the difficulty of accessing the boot from the cabin means the reverse is true. Only thing is if anything is left in the boot like a spare wheel and toolkit, or if the car's battery is mounted in there, would be at risk of theft. If an angle grinder is used take care to quickly brush off iron filings off the windscreen and bodywork, otherwise when it rains it will rust and bond and be difficult to remove.

closed

instead of phoning all and sundry, why not search the house for the spare?

Wig

Find the spare - I recently had to search the whole house to find my car keys too.

Check if the car has a quick release for the boot next to the driver seat.

Failing the 2 above
10 year old BMW.......... I agree with anew angle grinder cut a smallish hole in the boot, get keys, weld a new patch over the hole & paint.