1990 Crown Vic, keys locked in trunk

[dhovland]

Any one know how to open a locked trunk? The doors are open, but the keys are in the trunk. Car has a trunk unlock button in the glove box, which I can get to, but no key to energize the button.

[Jimz466]

If worse comes to worse, disconnect the electrical plug from the rear of the
trunk release button. Get a long length of wire and connect it to the + side
of your battery(or a live 12v in fuse box). Use the other end to touch each of
the terminals in the plug one at a time. One of them should pop the trunk
release.

[John Alt]

In article
<f25fb631a66e1dcb...@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>,
dhov...@nwlink.com says...

> Any one know how to open a locked trunk? The doors are open, but the
> keys are in the trunk. Car has a trunk unlock button in the glove box,
> which I can get to, but no key to energize the button.
>
>

If you can get to the wires on the trunk lock button, maybe you can run
a jumper from a battery terminal to energize the circuit? Or go by the
dealer in the morning with the VIN number and they can make you a key.

[Scott M]

"John Alt" <JohnAltDoe...@charter.net> wrote in message
news:vt7shts...@corp.supernews.com...

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Why cant you just jump the two wires on the buttons plug with a paper clip
or something similar?

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[John Alt]

In article <w4TAb.4473$PJ1....@twister.socal.rr.com>, n...@no.com says...

>
> "John Alt" <JohnAltDoe...@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:vt7shts...@corp.supernews.com...
> > In article
> > <f25fb631a66e1dcb...@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>,
> > dhov...@nwlink.com says...
> > > Any one know how to open a locked trunk? The doors are open, but the
> > > keys are in the trunk. Car has a trunk unlock button in the glove box,
> > > which I can get to, but no key to energize the button.
> > >
> > >
> > If you can get to the wires on the trunk lock button, maybe you can run
> > a jumper from a battery terminal to energize the circuit? Or go by the
> > dealer in the morning with the VIN number and they can make you a key.
> ================================
> Why cant you just jump the two wires on the buttons plug with a paper clip
> or something similar?
>
>

The button works fine, I'd assume. It requires the key in the accessory
position to have power, as in "no key to energize the button". Maybe
when he gets the trunk open and gets his keys back he can jump it :)

[Scott M]

"John Alt" <JohnAltDoe...@charter.net> wrote in message

news:vt80k12...@corp.supernews.com...

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oh, nm. I miss read it. I was thinking of the keylock type on the floor by
the drivers seat....missed the "glove box" part of the post.

[Steve Reinis]

Yank out the back seat! Seriously. It's kind of obnoxious to do the first
time, but you can remove the upper section of the back seat. Had to do this
on my 87' Town Car and 1985 Grand Marquis... for the same reason as you.
Makes no sense to have a trunk release in the glove box that works only when
the ignition is turned ON.

You kinda gotta pull towards you and lift upwards at the same time. Once
you do it a few times, it gets easier!

-Steve

"dhovland" <dhov...@nwlink.com> wrote in message
news:f25fb631a66e1dcb...@localhost.talkaboutautos.com...

> Any one know how to open a locked trunk? The doors are open, but the keys
are in the trunk. Car has a trunk unlock button in the glove box, which I
can get to, but no key to energize the button.
>

[Robotnik]

I hope we all learned a lesson from this..... Carry a spare key!

I keep a spare round key (trunk, doorlocks, and glove box) in my wallet. I
don't keep a spare ignition key...because usually it's locked in the
ignition, or in the trunk with the other key.

"Steve Reinis" <no-e...@all.com> wrote in message
news:br10v...@enews1.newsguy.com...

[jim]

that is why you use a longer wire to go straight to the battery to get
power.... then the trunk will open... it will not be a dead switch with
straight to the battery.....

[John Alt]

In article <3FD48D...@noname.com>, j...@noname.com says...

> John Alt wrote:
> >
> > The button works fine, I'd assume. It requires the key in the accessory
> > position to have power, as in "no key to energize the button". Maybe
> > when he gets the trunk open and gets his keys back he can jump it :)

> that is why you use a longer wire to go straight to the battery to get
> power.... then the trunk will open... it will not be a dead switch with
> straight to the battery.....
>

Keep up. That was my first post :)

[Petebert]

ya I was gonna post the same thing, Im not familiar with the Crown Vic but I
owned a 74 Chrysler Newport, another large vehicle, I once had a trunk
problem and I was able to remove the back seat and crawl into the trunk.

"Steve Reinis" <no-e...@all.com> wrote in message
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[jim]

i knew someone posted it, but then someone said that the button will not
work as the key cannot be put in the accessorie mode....... so i thought
i put the response onto their post telling them that if he used a longer
wire to the battery they dont need the key at all......
thanks for the input....

[Harry Face]

Steve Reinis wrote : Makes no sense to have a trunk release button in
the glove box that only works when the ignition is turned ON.......

Makes alot of sense......it keeps thieves from pushing the button,
opening your trunk and emptying it out.......of course if they want to
get in the trunk they will find another way.

My car you need the ignition on to open the trunk, my Z -24 you didn't.

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1991 Pontiac Bonneville LE, 3800 V6
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[Farley @nonymous]

Robotnik wrote:

> I hope we all learned a lesson from this..... Carry a spare key!
>
> I keep a spare round key (trunk, doorlocks, and glove box) in my wallet. I
> don't keep a spare ignition key...because usually it's locked in the
> ignition, or in the trunk with the other key.

I keep an ignition key inside a magnetic Key-Safe hidden inside my
trunk. The trunk key is hidden elsewhere on the vehicle. If the trunk
key should be found, an intruder might guess that there is a hidden
ignition key but it would not be found with any ease. This system has
saved me considerable exasperation on a few occasions.

[Mike...@mailcity.com]

Use a jumper wire to power the interior trunk release
button, WBMA.

mike hunt

[Tiger]

dhovland wrote:

> Any one know how to open a locked trunk? The doors are open, but the keys are in the trunk. Car has a trunk unlock button in the glove box, which I can get to, but no key to energize the button.

You know Every freeking Kmart in the universe would make a spare key in 2 mins. Always carried in the wallet. If your name was Racer I'd tell you to let Spritle & Chim Chim open it from the
inside.........

[lisamt...@gmail.com]

Please help

[Kevin Bottorff]

lisamt...@gmail.com wrote in news:f85a9e0a-b83c-464b-81a8-dab87eeea032
@googlegroups.com:

> Please help
>

hit the remote button in the door, or take the rear seat out. KB

[Kevin Bottorff]

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> On Tue, 17 May 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), lisamt...@gmail.com
> wrote:
>
>>Please help
>
> You're seriously responding to a 13 year old post?

sh*t didn`t even look, and why the hell is it showing up now in my new
feed? KB

[IYM]

Don't feel bad - Same thing happened on mine. Even the message source
below shows current. I still can't see where it was 13 years old, but
I'll take his word for it that it is...weird that it showed up now.
Maybe it was trapped in Hilary's e-mail server :)



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Please help

[Bruce Esquibel]

IYM <nor...@whitehouse.com> wrote:

> Don't feel bad - Same thing happened on mine. Even the message source
> below shows current. I still can't see where it was 13 years old, but
> I'll take his word for it that it is...weird that it showed up now.
> Maybe it was trapped in Hilary's e-mail server :)

It's because google fucked up groups.google.com and anyone using it should
be shot in the head.

The post lisamt(whatever)@gmail.com made "Please help" is in fact from May
17th, this year.

Since he/she/it uses groups.google.com for usenet (and should be shot in the
head), they are the ones that replied to a post from November 2003.

The original post was made by someone called dhovland which read:

"Any one know how to open a locked trunk? The doors are open, but the keys
are in the trunk. Car has a trunk unlock button in the glove box, which I
can get to, but no key to energize the button."

There were a few (5 or 6) follow up posts but what "Please help" was supposed
to mean, no clue, 13 years later.

-bruce
b...@ripco.com