fatcatwrx

After cleverly leaving my keys in the car whilst tightening my new rear strut brace I had finally finished and went to close the boot. As I was doing so, the car locks itself... great, now I'm locked out. The spare key is out of the question... so I call my mate (subaru mechanic) who comes around and tries to get into it for about half an hour, no luck. I've fallen victim to the infamous 30 second automatic locking... feature shall we call it. Not only this, but the car is in gear with the handbrake on and blocking three cars in the driveway. This just hasn't been my day... I've managed to chip the windscreen and now I've locked the keys in the car. Might aswell kill two birds with one stone, so one house brick later and I'm back into the car... took a while to vacuum up all of the shattered glass aswell. As per usual, there's a few photos to be seen which you can grab here:

http://photos.smktech.com.au:58885/g...0STi&preview=1

or by going here:

http://photos.smktech.com.au:58885/

and clicking on:

"20020323 - fcs 2002 Impreza WRX STi"



Regards,

Gerrod

Little Miss WRX

I know super slider deliberately asked for the 30 second thing to be just the alarm rather than alarm and lock for that reason.

Bad luck

fatcatwrx

Do you guys in the UK get the Brant alarm?

Gerrod

Little Miss WRX

I have an import, the Sigma alarm seems popular for UK's, whether that is the proper name for it I do not know

I had a Cobra Cat 1 alarm and immobliser for mine.

fatcatwrx

Ahhh... In Australia we get an aftermarket alarm fitted as standard equipment. It does a pretty good job and has all the bells and whistles. www.brant.com.au

Gerrod

Bruiser.STi

Surely the local locksmith guy coulda opened it for ya?? they do lockouts all the time.....Takes most AA after hours guys about 20 seconds on most Subaru's....

fatcatwrx

We'll I've already had the windscreen replaced from my little incident the other day... and one thing I must say that I noticed almost immediately is that the aftermarket piece of glass is of a far greater quality than that of the factory item. Not only does it have black edging all of the way around, but it also has the blue tint across the top of the windscreen.

I'll post a link to a photo of it in a couple of hours when I can take the holding tape of from around it.

Gerrod

IanW

Its the Sigma M30

Floyd

iTrader: (9)

That's some fist you got there

F

Geezer

Cat 1 alarms are only required to activate the immobiliser after 30 seconds, not lock the doors. What alarm have you got? The standard Scoob is Sigma and will not do this

Geezer

Katana

Mine locks the door automatically after 30 seconds. Anyway, you should've asked some car thieves to get into your car as it seems that they manage to do it a lot based on several posts I've seen.