arrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!

Some chancer's tried to break into my car last night! The driver's side lock is totally mashed and dents/chipped paint in the roof above the passenger side door where they tried to crowbar it open. They obviously weren't very experienced at boosting, as they failed miserably and just left me with the mess to clean up!

So, what to do? I think it's pointless claiming on insurance. I have a friend that can hopefully sort the body work out, but the lock? I was thinking of de-locking both doors, then this can't happen again. I don't want to change the locks as I won't have the original keys then. Has anybody de-locked theirs? What's involved? Is it very hard? I had a quick look tonight at getting the plate off the door that carries the door handle and surrounds the lock, but couldn't see how it came off - plus I didn't have much time. Any advice on getting this done would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

PS - I'm moving house next Saturday!

'Scuse me. I was unfortunate enough to live in 'Posh', and I think your issue should've read:

"Some chancer's tried to break into my car last night! fccuking Peterborough! The driver's side lock is totally mashed and dents/chipped paint in the roof above the passenger side door where they tried to crowbar it open. fccuking Peterborough! They obviously weren't very experienced at boosting, (fccuking Peterborough!) as they failed miserably and just left me with the mess to clean up!fccuking Peterborough)"

Best way to protect your from this again? Get out of fccuking Peterborough!



Hopefully it's not to somewhere else in fccuking Peterborough!

Sorry to hear it thought of course...

sorry to hear about this, you can get new locks etc from carlt on the forum.
just edited your title from caps too or you'll have us all after you!!!!!!

Yeah, thanks for your well-formed advice! (See what I did there?!?! )

sorry to hear mate
if ya m8 can't sort paint try cc styling

Guessing welformed don't like peterborough

Hey hunny, I've lived in about 15 different major towns/cities and Peterborough off the bottom of the scale of liveableness. Retch! It was alos the place where I saw the most Coops... the most battered up unmaintained Coops...

You obviously havent lived in Hull before then....

And sorry to hear that bout the Coop, its a rubbish feeling isnt it!

Thanks guys. Yeah, it sucks major chode!

So any advice about de-locking?

Cheers.

Anyone?

Advice, yeh its very hard. Pack the hole with filler and in under 6 months time it will look shocking.

Takes alot of time to alloy weld and do them properly. All depends on your standards of course.

But why delock? thats not going to solve it is it?

Yeah, of course I want to do it properly.

Well it will stop anyone shoving a screw driver in there again. Is it possible to just remove the barrels from the doors and have the central locking system still in place and working correctly?

The thing I didn't want to happen was to replace all the locks/ignition and end up without ALL 3 keys (which I currently have). Unless you have said items Carl???

3 key sets, yeh i'd have them. 2 sets left. No problem there.

So just to clarify - you have the ignition barrel, two doors and boot, with all 3 keys?

How much? Tenner?

Say no more....

Yeh right.

No i have, all the locks, glove box and bag switch, ecu and transponder box. Everything.

£20??

How much?

try £200+ for the key set or £1k at fiat

I suspect that dull thud in the background was Mr Banks fainting

It certainly was Stan! I've got a lump now. (On my head!)

Time to Rob some more Banks...

Don't use the coupé as the getaway car, it probably won't start!

Could you not just replace the outside locks with solex locks?

Those are designed to be screwdriver proof?

Really? Good idea! Thanks pfoe - I'll look into this.

Looks like they're £35 per lock. Very affordable! Much more so than a set of Fiat locks.
Has anyone fitted these to their car? How did it go?
Cheers.

Apparently NO Solex locks will fit a Fiat Coupe. Back to square one!

Anyone know anything similar to this that WILL fit?


Thanks.

The original ones?

There's no way of fixing a coupe on the cheap, it doesn't happen, its just what things cost.

I'll have to if I can't find anything else.

Have you tried:

Cheap Lock & Visual Deterrent

Ahhh it does make a lot of sense, though i do feel it may ruin the coops sexy lines.

@Robin can you not get a set of generic solex locks that are a similiar size?

Just glue a black plastic cap over the hole

Elastoplast would give it a more pikey look though.

tut, obviously to fit flush with the black surround

Out of sight out of mind for the sort of moron that sticks screwdrivers in locks

Sod the locks, get one of these fitted!

I emailed the guys that sell them and they advised they wouldn't fit. Guess they know more than I do.

Thinking about this. The ol' man's an engineer and very very handy when it comes to things like this. I'll leave he's mind to wander a bit and no doubt he'll come up with something if I don't replace the locks in some way.