Are You Locked out?
How to Get Into A Locked V70
2001VolvoXC70 » If you ever lock your keys inside the car or need a way in….here is a simple solution.
I will try to explain how in case you ever encounter this problem. First of all my windows weren’t moving at all. It was nearly impossible to stick a coat hanger between the door and the seal. I try to pry the door open a bit but it is a tight fit so i would have to use a crow bar or screwdriver, and that would have demolished the body.
Simply, I pulled a bit of weather strip from the driver window just above the lock. I slid a straightened coat hanger down with a simple “J” shaped on the end of it. Straight down, then twisted 90 degrees, and “gently” pulled up. The door lock knob rises and bingo your in.
I hope you never have to experience this because you feel stuck for a solution, but this works. Good Luck!
I removed my door panel today after this experience to see why the manual lock wasn’t working. There is a thin metal rod that attaches from the key cylinder and when you turn it, a leaver either gets pushed down, or pulled up. I simply reattached by using duct tape, It worked! This is also the leaver that you want to hook with the coat hanger.
Checksix » I just looked at my car and it is easy to use a paint scraper to open the gap of the rubber seal to glass to insert the coat hanger. How far down does the hanger have to go and then rotate 90 degrees so the hook points in OR out? These are the little details that count!
2001VolvoXC70 » Checksix, sorry I wrote this after I performed the job but don’t exactly remember which way I turned the J. However, if you push the hanger down to around the area of where the lock mechanism is, a bar comes out of the mechanism and this is the one you want to hook onto, then pull it up. If you cant hook it with the j facing towards the inside of the car then try the other way….good luck!
TerrDawg » As a former tow truck driver and professional thief (Repo man) the one car in the 80’s and 90’s we absolutely hated was Volvos … The lock out kit included packing strap that was plasticy and tough, known as the Volvo tool. It’s intent was to be folded in half, slid past the weatherstrip on the rear door (that’s what we were instructed to do) until it is in and visible .. Then hook the lock button … And pull it until it pops up and opens
Having worked on many Volvos in the body shops over 16 years, these are incredibly well designed with a plastic sheath the covers the lock/unlock rod that goes to the door mechanism … For what it’s worth.
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have 1997 850 t5 salone and cant get in car as droped my key fob and it feel apart once i put it back together it would not work please can u help me