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On behalf of Expert Village.com, I’m Jim Koch and today we’re talking about auto
lockouts and in this clip we’re going to demonstrate how a locksmith is going to use
a long tool. A long tool is the stainless steel rod that’s nearly five feet long,
it’s really handy on the newer cars where there’s passenger, side impact airbags,
where there’s a lot of electronics in the doors or where the doors are just shielded
so tough you can’t get a tool in. We’re going to demonstrate how that works and what
you’re going to do is come up to the car. You’re going to insert your wedge and in
this case my favorite, the air wedge. The air wedge is an almost critical tool when
you’re working with a frameless window like this because the air wedge has less of a tendency
to break the tool or to break the window. Basically you insert your wedge, you air it
up, this gives you a little bit of a gap to get your tool in. Once you’ve got your window
wedged, you take your sleeve and a sleeve is a real important thing when using this
tool, because the stainless steel the tool is made out of. If that slides against the
glass it can set up a harmonic in the glass and actually shatter the window. So you want
to make sure that the sleeve is stuck right on the glass so the tool can have no contact.
You bring your tool in and you’re going to reach down until you get to the lock. A
little bit of a tricky part is, you’ve got to look and figure out where your lock is
and then manually manipulate the lock. Once you’ve got your tool inside the car, you’ve
got to find the door lock, position the, the rod on the lock and then manipulate it. In
this case the lock has to go forward to be unlocked so you get your tool in place, give
it a little push and your door is open.