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- unicronband, on 10/11/2007, -2/+150Maybe if you throw the tennis ball really hard at the window. And instead of a tennis ball it's a crow bar. And instead of throwing it, you just hit it really hard against the window until it breaks. That might work.
- jbob2000, on 10/11/2007, -3/+68"Once my roomie gets home later, I will take the fuzz off my balls and try again."
Ermm.... - signal15, on 10/11/2007, -4/+66I tried this on a 2001 Mercury Cougar and a 2000 Audi. It didn't work. However, the lock mechanism in the Cougar did move a bit. I did not take the fuzz off the ball either, so it really didn't seal that well. Once my roomie gets home later, I will take the fuzz off my balls and try again.
- lystig, on 10/11/2007, -4/+46This works! Since 2001 I haven't used a single key, I got a tennis ball for my car, one for my house and one for my padlock.
- mogus, on 10/11/2007, -7/+47I could be wrong, but the guy in the video is a total moron. He just stabs a hole in the tennis ball and then goes to town on the car? The original video shows the hole being cut a lot larger, and also with some of the fuzz cut off of the ball, allowing the ball to seal against the perimeter of the lock bezel. I'm not saying it works (haven't tried it), but I can almost guarantee that leaving the fuzzy surface is not going to allow the ball to seal. Also, for the comment about the lock needing to turn: that might not be necessary. Consider lifting up the lock tab from the inside of your car: you're not turning the lock cylinder itself. Again, I don't know if it would work, but I'm saying the video didn't convince me that it wouldn't. Now, to find a Tennis Ball...
- horrorpunk, on 10/11/2007, -2/+36After watching the original video I tried it with my car, and (A) it doesn't work, or (B) doesn't work on my car.
- skjede, on 10/11/2007, -8/+36This would be interesting if the answer was yes.
But its not. Buried. - itsJALbert, on 10/11/2007, -3/+31No, it doesn't work.
- davecor, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22You have to use a METRIC tennis ball....
(Yes this works... if your goal is to post a video on the web and get thousands of people to mangle a tennis ball and dent their car doors. The guy was off cam with the key remote.....) - Ncrypt, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20You and your roomie must be very close.
- Coded1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19You're just opening your self up to a whole world of hurt with that post
- TheCaterpillar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+19Dugg for "Once my roomie gets home later, I will take the fuzz off my balls..."
- FearlessFreep, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16And nobody's even asked what this sentance means either..
"However, the lock mechanism in the Cougar did move a bit. "
Sounds like he's trying to open the chastity belt on a desperate middle aged woman - fpcyber, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14I wish work wouldn't block vids. I wanted to know the outcome *sigh*
- Muyoso, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11I was going to ask where you live and where your car is parked, then I realized you said Cavalier.
- me481, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Well, there is another item I can add to the list of things that cannot open my car door..
1) Bowling Ball
2) Paper Towel
3) Cell Phone
4) Tennis Ball
I have a feeling this list is going to grow rather quickly.
Oh, and the list of things that can open my car door:
1) The car keys - jennamalia, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I find that it's typically faster to carve down an old wooden tennis racket into the shape of a key, and use that.
- estacado, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I have a feeling that this myth is created by tennis ball manufacturers.
- ChefAnubis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9i dont know your car but Bowling Ball works with mine.
- Shadow503, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10I belive it only works on really old cars with vacuum locks.
- SpookyET, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8The car in the original video is a Romanian Dacia (google it). It's a communist era car that can be opened with my pinky nail (exaggeration, but you get the idea).
- Jonjonr6, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7You sir are a moron. I have rebuilt car door locks. Even old car door locks do NOT work this way. Dumb ass.
And anyone who diggs, or dugg down my comment, is an absolute IDIOT!
By the way, the vacuum lock system, DOES NOT have the vacuum attached to the LOCK, It goes to a vacuum pump. If the air could vent to the outside of the car through the key hole, there wouldn't be enough air pressure to push the plungers up.
Oh, and if you think the inside of a door skin is air tight, you're a tard. Look at the bottom of the door, it has holes in it. These holes are drains for water that leaks past the rubber window seal, you know, so the door doesn't rust out. - tMac, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7So we're watching a video of something that didn't work?
lame - nitekid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6should try it on the car that the girl in the video was doing it on.. to see if it really workz
- evensong, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9There was a huge discussion about this in one of the previous pages. It was concluded that it could only work on a very specific lock which uses pressure as its main unlocking mechanism. Couple that with that fact that nearly all new cars have their locks indented inwards, theres no way the tennis ball could make a seal around the keyhole.
Possibly an outdated method that worked once on a majority of cars. But few people drive around 90s of earlier cars these days. If so, they are usually not worth stealing anyways. - aelias, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If you can unlock your car by shoving your key in the hole really hard, then this might work. Most locks that I've ever seen require some turning of a cylinder.
Also, theres no jump. ***** blogspam. If it weren't for the occasional nugget of goodness, I'd stop using digg. It's been infested with crap and diggscammers lately. - netdawg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I can't remember how many times I seen this comment on Digg.
- wbeavis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Why leave any doubt, use an air compressor with 100 psi burst. It still ain't gonna open the lock. You can seal the tennis ball perfectly, but the door is far from air tight.
- loganhuddleston, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7i did try the remote entry pressed against my throat and it worked at a farther distance at church camp, but then i got fired.
- Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Did anyone have any doubt? You just have to look at the lock mechanism and see there's no way. It would be a lot easier to just use the air compressor to mythbust it. If it doesn't pop at 80psi, what little air pressure you get from squeezing a tennis ball isn't going to do it.
- pkonink, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Where is that goddamn 10mm tennis ball when you need it?!?! I left it right on the bench and it seems to have just got up and walked off by itself. That was damn Craftsman tennis ball, do you know how much I paid for that?
- TheDarkTipper, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4try using "Alohomora" or the key that Sirius gave you.
- blaaguuu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Do you really want a "1987 mitsu truck"?
- FearlessFreep, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Depends on how hard you through the tennis ball at the car door window
- the_d, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Anyone who believes this, has a fundamental misunderstanding of how pin-tumbler (or any other) locks work.
You would have a better chance of winning the lottery 10 times in one day, than this working.
There's no way in hell a little puff of air could magically push all of the pins in the correct position, and then turn the cylinder... - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4It works on my Cavalier...
- clickwir, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It never worked on ANY car. The original video was *****.
- clickwir, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3No, shaving the tennis ball will not work. You have to line up the pins and turn the unit. Turning the unit is what actually does the work of the unlocking. Just like when you pull up on the lock from the inside, by pulling up you are doing the physical work needed to move the parts inside the door. A very small puff of air is not going to be able to line up all the pins AND do the physical work of moving the parts inside the door to unlock the car. It is NOT possible.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5It did work on my 2007 Lamborghini and 2005 Ferrari. My address is...
- billybobtrantor, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4This is just like Myth Busters. Faulty test methods to disprove a valid concept. My 1987 Mercedes 260 has a vacuum lock controller located under the passenger seat. The tennis ball method works to unlock it every-time with different size holes and applied pressure. However my '98 BMW has a more modern locking method and the tennis ball method does not work.
No different then trying a Linux hack on a Windows PC and stating "This Linux hack doesn't work! I tried it on my XP and Vista PC" - razrielle, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7It works on my 1987 mitsu truck, it has the old style locks that are separate from the handle
- fani, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5When my wife locked-out our Saturn SL1 car, I tried out the tennis technique.
It doesn't work at all.
Finally, I used the old hangar trick to pop the lock open... Thankfully after a half an hour of tries, it worked.
Tennis ball trick is super bogus. I punched holes in about 3 tennis balls before I realized it was bogus - Error601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2They did but the accuator is a sealed unit connected to the car's vacuum system. External pressure won't make it go.
- Jonjonr6, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Here's a clue for you idiots who believe this might work.
No car door is seal. How do you think they got the window and door lock hardware inside the door? It has access holes. A door speaker alone would move enough to absorb any door pressure created by the tennis ball, and would be alot easier to move than the plunger. Finally, the door panel is not sealed to the door.
Cars with vacuum locks, like a Mercedes, had a single pump and for vacuum plungers. If the key hole went to the vacuum lines, the plungers would not go up. Its called a vacuum leak.
IF this ever worked, it worked because the door lock was worn out or has some other problem, and the tennis ball is completely arbitrary.
Now please, let this ***** die.
Any who wishes to prove me wrong, then wheres the video, several camera angles, then take the door panel off and show mechanics of how this works. In other words, PROVE IT with real evidence. - jennamalia, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2AND? Nah, that's just overkill. Halligan FTW (door may not close properly after using this technique).
- fani, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Dude - this was the best op to check out the tennis ball trick.. Its not about smarter v/s harder. Its just about trying out a theory... If it worked, hey great hack..
if not, well, now I know for sure instead of listening to morons like you giving pathetic advice. - ChayD, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Dugg for TV commercial style comment. "Do you spend ages fumbling with your keys? Are you tired of having to use a crow bar? Do you get regularly arrested for throwing bricks through windows? Then you need new unlock-o-ball(tm) Get one for your car, get one for your garage" etc etc.
- ICSU, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So? The girl was hot and that all that matters, right?
- DeadElephant, on 12/08/2007, -0/+1My ***** is a cavalier, so if I ever lock myself out I'll just drive to my local sporting goods store and.... oh.
- whatsoncemore, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2ziiiiiing
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