hacker-pschorr

For some random reason I was reminded of a story which happened to a local 928 owner many years ago.

He backed out of his garage, forgot something, went inside to retrieve what he forgot only to discover his car was now locked with the engine running.

Where was he going? Taking his 928 to the local Indy to diagnose why his coolant fans were not running......which turned this into an even bigger problem.

Just keep that in mind the next time the engine is running and you are exiting the vehicle, roll down the window first.

Stories like this is why we have a rule in this house: No car is parked with the keys inside, ever, even in the garage.

James Bailey

Yes when you slam the door and hear the sickening sounds of the door lock motor cycling all by itself ......and they often do .

hopwood

Been there done that... on a baking hot day in Italy... had to smash the rear quarterlight with a brick. not nice

Chalkboss

Easy and safe way to shatter safery glass... Get a masonry bit and sharpen the tip with a file. Press tip against glass and watch the spiderweb appear.

GT6ixer

Good advice. That's one of the nice features I like about Saabs though. The doors can only ever be locked with the key.

Mongo

Mine did that 3 days after buying it in 2001! We thought the car was haunted. We were lucky enough to have the hood up where we could pull the airbox, cover the MAF with a hand to stall the engine out until we could find the spare key in the bag of extra crap that came with the car.

hacker-pschorr

The 928 has the same feature (as do almost every European cars made since the 70's actually), the situation here is when the system fails. All bets are off when something breaks or works outside of its design parameter.
Saab's have a different achilles heel with the alarm & immobilizer.....

Years ago a friend of mine was bragging how it's impossible to lock the keys inside a Porsche. I took his keys, locked the car, opened the hatch, tossed in his keys and closed it. He was not amused, but he also forgot his window was rolled down.

GT6ixer

^ Oh yeah, the hatch loophole. I forgot that could happen on the Saab too. But if you do that, even by mistake, ya kinda have it coming to you.

Oh and didn't know that about the 928. Cool, just another item to add to the mx list as I can get out of the car and turn the **** to lock the door and they do not come back up. They do if the keys are in the ignition but not if they are laying on the seats for example.

Snark Shark

I got a spare key made and hid it on the vehicle "somewhere".

GT6ixer

Where?

jheis

Happened to me the first weekend I had my '82 (23 years ago).
Left my home in San Francisco and drove down to Santa Cruz. Stopped to visit a friend in Boulder Creek and parked under a tree. My friend suggested I move my car and close the sun roof because the tree dropped sap. I moved the car to a clear area closed the door and the car locked itself - with the keys in the ignition.
AAA came out and worked on the car for about an hour before giving up.
So, I'm 70 miles from home (and my spare set of keys).... The options were to break a window to get inside the car, or convince my friend to drive me back to SF (~140 miles round trip) to get my spare key. Fortunately my friend was a "car guy" and agreed to drive me back to SF to get my spare keys. It was also fortunate that I had a house key hidden so I didn't have to break into my own house....
Moral of the story, NEVER leave the keys in the ignition of a 928.

StratfordShark

V2Rocket

...or you'll discover exactly where all your exhaust leaks are coming from...

Snark Shark

Well, if you must know, I rigged it up so that when you siphon off all the gas from the tank and fill it up again with fresh top-tier premium, a miniature rubber duckie will float up to the top of the filler neck. You'll find the key taped underneath.

worf928

Locking gas cap?