Crazy Eddie Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 Anyone who saw my previous thread about the joke I played on my wife may find this funny but I'm having a mare at the moment! She has been doing a clean up today and my keys have been "lost"! What can I do if they don't get found? The reason why I ask is because she made the comment, "Well if you left them there I might have even binned them!!!!!" So naturally I'll need a switch for the ignition does it need a certain amp rating? As far as the steering lock goes what could be done about that please? Track Day on Friday so this really couldn't have happened at a worse time Any help appreciated. Cheers Eddie Quote
Matt Seabrook Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 I think she is getting her own back. Tell her you are off out to the garage to sort it the lock without letting on that you think she is getting her own back. Just as you are going out the door just drop in to the conversation you will need the credit card and the phone to ring to order the expensive up grade parts for the lock and then see how long it is before your keys turn up Quote
Morbius Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 Switch is easy, Eddie. If you follow the wires back to the main loom, there is a connector that you can disconnect. You could then fit a replacement lock set to the connector and leave it hanging or just hot wire it. The steering lock needs a slide hammer or similar to take the barrel out. Major surgery to put it all back neat again when tyou get the new steering lock, so I would talk about the probelm and cost within earshot of the wife and see if the keys miraculously reappear. Of course she might be engaging in brinkmanship, so the reappearance of th ekeys might go down to the wire. I can't beleive any woman cannot remember where she put stuff when 'tidying up', given the average length and accuracy of memory retention when it comes to the last time the partner forgot an Anniversry/birthday, etc. Quote
pistonbroke Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 Hell hath no fury like a womans revenge who sang that Quote
perksy Posted January 21, 2008 Posted January 21, 2008 Switch is easy, Eddie. If you follow the wires back to the main loom, there is a connector that you can disconnect. You could then fit a replacement lock set to the connector and leave it hanging or just hot wire it. The steering lock needs a slide hammer or similar to take the barrel out. Trev No offence but are You Sure you want to post that for everybody to see Quote
Norman Verona Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 Some of us are keyless. No ignition key switch, just a toggle on/off. No steering lock (think of all that weight saved). I do have an FIA battery switch. I would defy any would be thief to drive my car further than 200 yards as I turn the fuel pump off (hidden switch) when parking in non-secure place. Quote
brianm Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 QUOTE Anyone who saw my previous thread about the joke I played on my wife may find this funny but I'm having a mare at the moment! She has been doing a clean up today and my keys have been "lost"! Oh come on man, don't you realise that you can't win here. If you blag your way out of this with a threat of having to chuck money at it and she finds out, well, you might just end up in the same situ as the bloke who's girlfriend ripped his b**************f in a previous post. Get on the phone within earshot and cancel the trackday, only 2 possible outcomes, the worst of which means you miss the day. That could just be the cheapest way out. Afer all you did start it, which I'm sure she's itching to let you know Quote
Blatman Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 Get a grip. Just go find them. I mean, how many places can she have hidden tham that you couldn't think of? Quote
mr-rad Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 Get a grip. Just go find them. I mean, how many places can she have hidden tham that you couldn't think of? Unless they have already made the journey to the local council tip. Quote
Blatman Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 True. I always find it staggering that *every* woman I've ever had in my life will "tidy up" (code for hiding stuff wherever she can) and then claim to have not seen/not moved/not touched "your things", then they're found with everything else that has been "tidied away". She then makes it your fault by saying that if you had tidied up they wouldn't have been "lost". Women Still, get your own back by "tidying" her knicker drawer with oily hands... Quote
Paul Hurdsfield - Joint Manchester AO Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 Oh come on man, dont you know when your beaten Just get on your knees and grovel Ask any married man, he'll tell you it's the only way Quote
peterg Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 Permission to PMSL sir! BWWWWAAAAAHahahahahahahahahahahahaha Quote
chappers Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 New steering lock - £37.18 from Westfield. Might need new bonnet locks/lockable boot locks if you have them as well. Ages ago I took my old MG metro into the garage to get a new key cut since I only had one. Somehow the original key got lost between the car parked outside the door and the counter, since the newly cut one didn't work as the old key was a bit ropey. In the end I sawed off the steering lock in the car park and fitted a new one. £80 in the end, so it turned out to be an expensive key. Quote
Terry Everall Posted January 22, 2008 Posted January 22, 2008 Blatters Your comments are so true Quote
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