Lexus Trunk Lockout

Normally, for an experienced locksmith technician, automotive lockout services are pretty easy jobs to do. Even for the novice locksmith technician it shouldn't be to hard to unlock most makes and models. When a customer accidentally lock his car while the keys are inside still in the ignition or on the seat for example, all that a locksmith technician have to do is get through one of the doors using various specialty tools. However, when a customer lock the keys to his vehicle inside the trunk, that is when things start to get a little trickier.

I remember few years back I got called to unlock the trunk on a 95 Lexus model. These vehicles were always a little hard for me to work on since most of them has high security lock system, but since I didn't have any job on me that day, I decided to accept the job and try to make another customer happy. I took the customer's information and started heading out to his location.

Once I got to the customer, I asked him what exactly happen and he told me he accidentally drop the keys inside the trunk without noticing as he was putting away his shopping and closed the trunk behind him. Since I knew this model was equipped with a trunk release lever, I knew that all I had to do was unlock the vehicle and use the trunk release to open the trunk. However, for that to work, the alarm must be unarmed and luckily it was.

After I got my tools from the van, I had the vehicle opened and couple of minutes, but when I went to pull the trunk release lever, it didn't work for some reason. At that point I had to figure out a way to get to the trunk which didn't include drilling the lock, so I called another Boise locksmith friend of mine to see maybe he can get me to the right direction for unlocking trunk.

When I got my locksmith friend on the phone, he mentioned that there is a way to manually pop the trunk open. He said that if I will access the trunk release mechanism by taking the dashboard part that close to it. Once I will have an access to the mechanism he said, I would have to remove the locking clip and push the spring loaded tab. After I did all the process explained to me, I was able to manually pop the trunk by pushing the spring loaded tab and retrieve the customer his keys from the trunk.