{"id":433,"date":"2010-08-06T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/how-i-broke-into-my-honda-civic\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T10:59:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T18:59:03","slug":"how-i-broke-into-my-honda-civic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/06\/how-i-broke-into-my-honda-civic\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Broke Into my Honda Civic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I ended up at an outlet mall<\/a> with my keys locked in my car, a 1992 Honda Civic, and needed a cheap way to get back into my car. Here’s the easy method I discovered.<\/p>\n

\"Skewers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Before I go any further, let me just say please don’t use this method on someone’s car without their permission.<\/strong> In addition, it’s a last-ditch technique, since it can damage your car’s weatherstripping. However, if you’re a Honda Civic owner like me and need to get into your car, feel free to give this a try.<\/p>\n

Because I was at an outlet mall, my first thought was that wire hangers would be easy to come by. As I walked around the stores, though, I observed that all their hangers were the plastic kind. I was about to give up on this approach when I walked past a kitchen store. I thought that there MUST be something in a kitchen store I could use, and lo and behold, I was right.<\/p>\n

For the low price of $2.49, I was the new owner of four metal barbecue skewers, one of which I used for my own purposes. I used the metal on a trash can to bend the skewer into a hook shape like this:<\/p>\n

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\"Hook<\/a><\/p>\n

After a few false starts, here’s the method that worked. I slipped the skewer into the side of the window (either front passenger or driver’s side will work).<\/p>\n

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\"Aiming<\/a><\/p>\n


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I maneuvered the skewer past two weatherstripping barriers, and then the hook was inside the car!<\/p>\n

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\"Aiming<\/p>\n

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After that, it was fairly easy to use the hook to pull up the door lock. In case you don’t believe me, here’s a video of the whole process, which took a little more than 30 seconds:<\/p>\n

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Once I was aware of it, I noticed that my Civic appears to have quite a history of this entry method:<\/p>\n

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\"Break-in<\/a><\/p>\n

This was a strong reminder to me that I should never leave valuables in my car. If you own a ’90s Civic, the same applies to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day, I ended up at an outlet mall with my keys locked in my car, a 1992 Honda Civic, and needed a cheap way to get back into my car. Here’s the easy method I discovered. Before I go any further, let me just say please don’t use this method on someone’s car […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-luck","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}