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Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!scott From: scott@psy.uwa.oz.au (Scott Fisher) Subject: Re: CLUB Story Message-ID: <1992Sep1.025939.26928@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> Sender: news@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: wapsy.psy.uwa.oz.au Organization: University of Western Australia References: <1992Aug31.134505.1@dac.mdcbbs.com> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 02:59:39 GMT Lines: 36 asr_2@dac.mdcbbs.com writes: >Wife's CLUB just messed up royally. We go to unlock it and there it is >stuck and the key won't turn(it has one of those circular keys not a regular >one). We call the locksmith, he laughed and said that this was a common >complaint and came that night to get it off my wife's car. He hadn't >experience picking that sort of lock, so he drilled the master cylinder >and removed the lock itself. good news was that it took at least half >an hour so the thing was good, the bad news was that it was a piece of >crap lock. Also she had it wedged in the corner with the butt of the >club in the windshield it wasn't till the next morning I saw the >crack!!!! so it cost me 45 dollars for the locksmith and dunno >how much its gonna be for the windshield.. Any help >for getting CLUB number to yell would be appreciated. Thanks >Asim That's interesting..a consumer magazine here in Australia called CHOICE (US has one too I beleive?) did an article on these steering wheel locks and had a trial where a randomly chosen guy (unskilled in car theft) was given a screwdriver and told to ... see if you can remove this lock. The average locks were removed from anywhere between 15 seconds to 3 minutes. all brands and styles failed the test at the hands of the amature. The CLUB lock was apparently in the 15 second category. Regards Scott. _______________________________________________________________________________ Scott Fisher [scott@psy.uwa.oz.au] PH: Aus [61] Perth (09) Local (380 3272). _--_|\ N Department of Psychology / \ W + E University of Western Australia. Perth --> *_.--._/ S Nedlands, 6009. PERTH, W.A. v Joy is a Jaguar XJ-6 with a flat battery, a blown oil seal and an unsympathetic wife, 9km outside of a small remote town, 3:15am on a cold wet winters morning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------