I keep a spare key tie wrapped to a spot under the hood in both my truck and old TJ.

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Originally posted by Chowser:
Going to show my age here, back in the day, I went to Sears and had the plastic credit card key cut to my Camaro.

I had one of those for my 91 Ford Ranger.

When I lived in Alaska and started the car and let it warm up every day in the winter, I did this a bunch of times. Those were the wing window days and it was pretty easy to use a Buck knife to open one, then get in.

My current vehicle is keyless, so the fob stays in my pocket and I don't have the possibility of this happening.

There should be a law, something like Murphy's Law, that if you misplace something and need to look in multiple places, it will invariably be in the last or next-to-last location. It is so inviolable that I have sometimes reversed the order I'd planned on-- and it is still in the last or next to last place. Laws of nature will not be messed with.

I still have vehicles with the old-fashion keys and I hide a spare underneath each one in a little magnetic box. I have used each spare once per car, one time crawling in the rain & mud to get to it.

I’ve done it myself, and with the truck I have now I can open it with my phone, as long as I have signal. Start it too on those cold mornings.

I’ve actually had to break the back window out of my pickup when I locked the keys in it on a trip.

I’m a Hide-A-Key man now.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
There should be a law, something like Murphy's Law, that if you misplace something and need to look in multiple places, it will invariably be in the last or next-to-last location. It is so inviolable that I have sometimes reversed the order I'd planned on-- and it is still in the last or next to last place. Laws of nature will not be messed with.

It's there already.

Think about it: when you find your item, you quit looking. Guess what? Boom! Just as stated! Your item truly was in the last place you looked.

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Originally posted by florida boy:
I keep a spare key tie wrapped to a spot under the hood in both my truck and old TJ.

You must have older vehicles.

Both my pickup and my SUV have hood releases inside the vehicle, so if you can't get the door open, you can't open the hood.

Just remembered. My 1950 Ford 2 door business coupe was the same. Hood release was inside.

My truck has an electronic code pad. I keep that code # in my cell phone, but I might not take my cellphone with me. I don’t trust the power door locks on my truck. I had a work truck inexplicably lock up on me with the keys in the ignition at a gas station. Luckily, the station had a service garage and they had an inflatable bag that is forced in between the top of the door and truck cab. After that, I never leave the keys in the truck at a gas station. Of course, that’s not what happened to para; as Emily Litella would say, “Never mind.”

I keep a spare truck key in my wallet. Which reminds me, I need to get another key made for my car and put it in my wallet. Have to tell my wife to get a spare key for her car.

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Originally posted by Blackmore:
Keypad on the driver door or B pillar of a lot of Fords now. Mine has saved me once or twice or more.

This, and it's great, until the battery in the vehicle dies, yep had the habit of tossing the keys in the console and using the code, that way no pocket full of keys, wallet, phone etc.

Normally this isn't a problem, you just grab the spare keys, which, were also in the console since I'd used them to move the truck. So now, no battery, no power, no keypad, no keys, inside hood release so no way to get to battery to jump it and power up the door keyway.

Clearly a dumbass move but, we got it open and both sets never get left in the vehicle at the same time...

Many of the new cars have apps you can start, lock, unlock the vehicle with, can't drive it off, you still need the fob, but it does let you get into the vehicle, wifes Lincoln does that.

I have locked myself out of my patrol car. With the emergency lights on. In the middle of an intersection. In the rain.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
I have locked myself out of my patrol car. With the emergency lights on. In the middle of an intersection. In the rain.

Now that's humiliating.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
it will invariably be in the last or next-to-last location.

Can anyone explain to me that statement? What fool keeps looking after he finds what he's looking for? Its in the last place because he stops looking after he finds the missing thing.

I was in a bank drive through in my new truck, 2004, dropped the bank cannister, got out and must have hit the door lock and couldn't get back in. People are not nice when you are blocking a drive through even though there are 5 others. Finally someone in the bank came out and gave me a ride to my house to get the other set. Truck was left running in line until I got back. I always have an extra key with me anymore and when we are fishing,shooting or hunting, I hide a set near my truck just in case.

Oh, well. That's tough. My wife once locked herself out of the car... while it was running. I wasn't around. Someone helped her open the door with a hanger.

It's why we have AAA,
Although we have only used the lock out service twice in 9 years

The keyfob for my truck will not lock all the doors until all the doors are shut. I mostly find this annoying when I get out and my passengers are taking their time to get out. But I guess at the end of the day, it’s better then locking the fob in the truck.

It's all fun until you manage a team of 40 valet parking attendants that park 600 cars a day. I had the #1 locksmith on speed dial and the #2, #3, #4, and #5 as backups in case the rest are busy and I was on a first name basis with all of them. I spent 10 years managing valet crews, I got burned out and moved on.

With a stable veteran crew we could go weeks without losing a key. Sooner or later we would have turnover and when you hire early 20s kids they sometimes don't listen or pay attention! We were very fast at sorting through the obvious places to look, but sometimes the key would get left in another car and be driven three counties over.

I am glad to be out of the business and to have a Ford with a combinationlock in the door if I ever need to get in.