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| sparky961:
So, I consider myself to be pretty smart. However, I just realized that I've spent wasted over an hour watching YouTube videos and sifting through thread after thread trying to find out if this whole "open a car door with a tennis ball" thing is actually true or not. There's a MythBusters clip that apparently quashes the rumor, but then I see there's yet another video saying that MythBusters is full of crap! The forums were full of people talking about why it would and wouldn't work, many of the points quite valid. But the most valid post I saw was someone asking why these guys didn't just go out and try it! Maybe this was started out by a tennis ball manufacturing company who's sales numbers were a bit low?? IF I actually had a tennis ball laying around, I WOULD try this.... but alas, I don't. Please, can anyone point me to some slightly more scientific test of this? Thanks! Oh, and sorry for the time you're going to waste on YouTube watching the same videos..... ;) -Sparky |
| Dean W:
Well, at least give us a link to them if you want us to waste our time doing the same thing! (Actually, if I want to open a car door, I just use the built in door handle...) ; ) |
| -steves-:
It has to be false otherwise why would people bother breaking locks, picking locks, smashing windows etc. Pull a lock apart and just see how accurate the pins need to be for even a key to work, remembering these days they both push and pull the pins. Total cods wappop :thumbup: Might have worked on one of the old sierra's or somthing back in the day when literally any ford key would fit any other ford, well most cars :bugeye: |
| lordedmond:
Well I think there is something in it because a few years we had a Merc 190e from new ( what a load of junk that was it was a lemon lemon ) anyway back to the tail the locks failed took it back and the said the vacuum pump under the back seat had failed ,its this pump and pipe work that operate the door locks, so a tennis ball could move something and operate the lock Stuart |
| -steves-:
But these vacuum pumps do not turn the key, they merely move a wire inside the door that releases the locking mechanism, the same as any other type of central locking system. To put a tennis ball over the lock just can not work. Much better off with a steel rule with a notch in it down the side of the window, works a treat on older cars that dont have the new metal plate built into the door to stop it :thumbup: So a mate was telling me once anyway ;) |
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