A new (4500 miles) OB comes in with a "rod" sticking up out of the passinger door between the seal and the window. The customer had locked themselves out and someone (a professional locksmith?) had used this slim jim tool to attempt to unlock the door, and now the tool was stuck in the door. The service writer, jim and I used door wedges to give us more room but we couldent untangle this rod. Jim told the customer it would take about an hour. I removed the inner door planel and the plastic sheet so I could see what I was dealing with. The rod went down inside the door, reversed directions and up the other side of the window glass, curving sharply back down again by the mirror. It also went around a window regulator attach point. The end had a hook that had caught a wire harness. It took me some strange manuvers to untangle it and remove this "tool" without scractching it. I still don't know how they
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16 years ago