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Unboxing Lock Tech GM Ignition Removal Tools

So we have a new “toy”, from LockTech. Instead of an unboxing, we will call it an “unbagging”. It’s a full set from AccuReader LockTech. And this is the ignition removal tools. A onewhole set, is all four of them. Rather than buy one at a time, just buy the whole thing. It would save you some money. And again, this is an unbagging, not unboxing. It has never been opened, and it will be the first time of us “playing” with it. We’ve been using AccuReader LockTech’s tools for years, so it is the first time getting like the whole little set here.

So get that there. It is a total unbagging. They’re easy to tell apart which is kinda cool. So we’ve got a blue side, a yellow side, a green one with a toy. So we got the whole set here of four. Most of their products,  by the way are extremely well made. So it does the trick. And we’ll show this in action, this is just an unbagging today, we’ll show it in action down the road.

These four different tools, they call it the V1, V2, V3, V4. And this’ll take out the ignitions on a whole lot of cars like the Chevrolet Cruzes, Chevrolet Colorado, Silverado, the Alero. It is an interesting tool for me. It’s removing the ignition cylinders from GM vehicles without drilling or damaging which is very cool. We’ve had their other products even before. Some of these are earlier ones, but they’re as fantastic. Instructions comes with the bag.

All four (4) of GM Ignition Removal Tools Set

We’ll post some videos of us playing with this. So I hope that helps a little bit. We will play with some ignitions later, but right now this is just an unbagging of a brand new “toy” from AccuReader LockTech for us. I hope you enjoyed watching this video. Subscribe to my channel. Also, visit my website and you can see what online locksmith training I have for beginners, intermediate, and advanced, as well as my covert methods of entry and my nondestructive methods of entry.

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Changing Ford Remote Battery

This is a very popular Ford key and we call it the “eight cut“. It’s a four button, remote head key. If it’s tons of the Mustangs, or if it’s the whole Ford line, it is all over the place. It’s very popular.  There is no screws on this one. If there is a ring, just get the ring out of the way. To remove the battery, put the quarter, or a flathead in and then just give it a little twist. It will come apart very easily. It’s got weather stripped. And then just flip out the battery. So this one is the CR2032,  which is an extremely popular battery.

To put the battery in, you just gotta slide it in and that’s perfect. So we’ve done a very good weather stripping on this. So there we go. There is our Toyota remote.

Mr. Locksmith CR2032

Steps on how to change a Toyota remote battery:

• First, see if it had the ring on. If so, just take the ring off.
• Use your Leatherman or flathead screwdriver. There are no screws. You can tell by looking at the fob.
• Just give it a little twist (make sure you don’t take much force).
• And make sure to do it without everything falling every which way.

I like the Energizers and the Duracells for Ford remote battery. I don’t like the dollar store ones, that always seems to be giving people problems. And I don’t like the inexpensive ones. Fits in quite nicely. Nothing else comes apart here. Just slip it in there. Now we gotta get this weather stripping on. Just clip it in there nicely. We can put the ring back on. It goes on pretty quick and easy. Again, it’s an extremely popular remote. A four button, Ford remote head key which we call the “eight cut“. Again. very easy to do. I hope you enjoyed watching this video. Subscribe to my channel.

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Hi, I am Terry Whin-Yates from Mr. Locksmith. Hockey Pucks locks are great for protecting your service truck or locksmith vehicle from Break and Enter attempts. However, in the winter the Hockey Pucks locks on your Locksmith Van or service truck ice up and the locks become frozen while driving in the snow or slush.

Frozen Hockey Puck Lock

Prevention is the number one so use WD-40 and spray the heck out of it. WD-40 is a penetrating oil, but it is  also water displacement fluid. If your Hockey Puck lock is iced up give it a few hits first with a rubber hamme then then take your lock deicer. Eighty percent or more isopropyl alcohol is the best. Take the lock deicer, get it right in the keyhole, spread it all over it, and that should work where our key will now be able to go in and open it up. Prevention’s the best bet. Give the lock and keyway lots of WD-40, and it works really well to prevent the lock from frezzing.

On my own Mr. Locksmith service truck I don’t mind using a butane lighter blowtorch. Just give the blowtorch a little twist, push and click and you get a nice hot flame. Just heat the hockey puck lock right up. Again, I wouldn’t do this on a customer’s. This is my own locksmith service truck. This will get the all unfrozen. And be careful, the lock can get really, really hot. The other way is to get a lighter, match, etc. to heat the lock or keyway. I have this little propane torch. Just heat your key up it doesn’t take long. Heat it up, and then you can start putting it into the lock.

WD-40 for Frozen Locks

Another method to unfreeze the lock if you have nothing just heat the key with your hand, hold it in your hand, get it all heated up. It takes a long time, but if you have nothing, just use your hand. So again, if you have absolutely nothing, heat it with your hand. Just hold it in your hand, heat it up.

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Hi, I’m Terry Whin-Yates. This video is on how to unfreeze your frozen car door.

The most common cause of the locks being frozen if people have washed their car, so that the whole door’s frozen. The easiest, quickest way is you get some windshield lock de-icer or this is windshield and window de-icer. You can make your own. Basically it is isopropyl alcohol aka rubbing alcohol.

Just spray the whole sides of the car door. Spray the lock. Spray the sides. Spray all over. It is not going to hurt the car. Stinky, yes. Be careful it is extremely flammable. Just let it seep into the door cracks, handle and lock. You can change the bottle to it to a stream but get it right in there. Get it on everything, and then you can get the door open.

You can make your own lock de-icer, as well as your windshield de-icer. For your lock de-icer just use this rubbing alcohol. This ones 91% isoprol alcohol. This is great just for raw, lock de-icer. If you want to make some windshield de-icer, it works fantastic. Use two-thirds of the high-quality rubbing alcohol with one-third water.

If you’re at home get your hair dryer. Plug it in. There are some 12-volt hair dryers. At home just plug it into an extention cord. Get the hair dryer going. You’re going to blow hot air all down the sides. This is another handy method. If you don’t have the lock de-icer, the windshield de-icer, get a hair dryer. Put an extension cord on it. Just sit there and just heat up the whole door, all the edges, all everything, as well as the lock. This works pretty good. Takes some time, but it works great.

So I hope this has been of help to unfreeze your frozen car door.

So I hope this has been of help to unfreeze your frozen car door.

If just your car lock is frozen visit my Blog How to Open a Frozen Door Lock.

WD-40 for Frozen Locks

Lock De-Icer for Frozen Locks

Isopropyl Alcohol – Rubbing Alcohol for Frozen Locks

Windshield De-Icer for Frozen Cars

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Winter and the cold weather is here. Lots of Emergency Calls to open car locks that have been frozen. The most common cause is washing your car and then parking it overnight or later in the day and you cannot open your car because the locks and sometimes the entire is frozen. 

Hi I am Terry Whin-Yates from Mr. Locksmith. Melting ice from a frozen car lock can be achieved in several ways, but despite what your first instinct may be, using hot water is not one of the recommended methods. What to do when your car door lock is stuckDo Not Use Boiling Water to Unfreeze the Car. 

• Do Not Use Hot Water
• Use Lock de-icer
• Lubricate Your Car Locks before they freeze.
• Never try to force your door open.
• Don’t Force the Key.
• Use a lighter to warm the key.
• Make your own Lock De-Icer

So what do you do if your car door lock is frozen “do not pour hot water over your car door and car lock.” Boiling water may or may not work but the hot water may damage the door lock and seals. Also, the water will freeze again this time in the lock and linkage. Don’t Use Hot Water. Car locks have tight seals and water can hardly reach inside to melt the ice, so the hot water rarely works. Moreover, depending on how fast you move or how cold it is outside, the hot water could freeze as well and further complicate the problem of how to melt ice from a car lock.

Use Lock de-icer is simply a specific concentration of isopropyl alochol. It’s the same chemical compound found in rubbing alcohol, for example, but at a much stronger concentration. According to its MSDS sheet, MotoMaster’s Lock De-icer, for example, is at least 98 percent isopropyl alcohol, while rubbing alcohol is typically between 50 and 70 percent strength.

The best solution to open a frozen lock is to use a commercial lock de-icer. If you don’t have any de-icers or are having an exceptionally bad day and your de-icer is trapped in the locked car, don’t worry. There are other options.

Use a De-Icer. A commercial de-icer may be used to melt the ice, and help you start your vehicle. During the cold season, you should keep de-icers in your car and home, and in winter jackets, so that you have these on hand at all times.

I have found the best method to loosen up the frozen lock is using a spray “Lock De-icer.” Lock De-icer is available at most Automotive Stores and Canadian Tire.

No Lock De-icer? If you are at home Hook up a blow dryer. If you don’t have a long enough extension cord try warming your key with a lighter (not too hot or you can melt some parts of the lock, a lot of plastic parts in modern car locks). Just heat the key up and put it into the lock, remove the key and reheat, keep doing this until the lock will eventually unfreeze and open. Note: If you do not have a lighter use you hands to warm the key.

Lubricate Your Car Locks: During cold weather flush your car locks with WD40 to remove the moisture (do not use oil, this attracts dust and dirt and will eventually jam the lock). Again, the best solution is “Lock De-Icer” sprayed into the car lock key hole. Gently put the tip of your car key into the lock to push back the key lock dust cover and spray lock de-icer into the keyway.

Never try to force your door open. Cold plastic and metal become brittle and cold metal will break with very little force. We have had to open cars with a broken car door handle because the customer try to force open the door.

Don’t Force the Key. Forcing the key into the lock is another bad option. It can result in a broken key or a broken lock.

A very simple method is to try opening the passenger door or the cars hatch is to apply lots of Windshield De-icer or make your own with 2/3 Rubbing Alcohol 91 percent isopropyl alochol and 1/3 water.

Hopefully these simple methods can help you. If you do call us at Mr. Locksmith Professional Locksmiths to open your car we use a portable rechargeable hair dryer and Lock De-icer to open your frozen car door lock.

Isopropyl Alcohol – Rubbing Alcohol for Frozen Locks

Lock De-Icer for Frozen Locks

WD-40 for Frozen Locks

Windshield De-Icer for Frozen Cars

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Hi, I’m Terry Whin-Yates. This video is on how to unfreeze your frozen car lock. However, the best bet is prevention. Before your door, your car is frozen up get some WD-40. WD-40 is not a lubricant, it displaces water. So it’s a penetrating oil and a water displacement. When your locks are still working good, just spray the heck out of it. That gets all the water out of there and then you’re ready for winter. You shouldn’t have any problems. Do this a couple times throughout the season.

The major cause of locks being frozen and the car door being frozen is people wash their car.

The best way to unfreeze a frozen car lock is the lock de-icers. You can buy this for anywhere from $3-$5,. The good stuff is 90%+ isopropyl alcohol.

However, for $3-$5, get the good rubbing alcohol. This is 91% . So it’s a few dollars more but it’s 91 percent isopropyl. The lock de-icer works so well because it freezes at -100 to -120. That’s why it works. Our lock is frozen, the key is not going in all the way. Sometimes you gotta get that little dust cap out of the way. Just take the isopropyl, just take the lock de-icer, spray it in there. Slowly work your key in and get the lock turning. You just stick it right in, gets the dust cap out of the way, give it a squeeze. Be careful it’s highly highly flammable.

So you have no lock de-icer, you have no WD-40. What do you do? If you can, just be careful, but heat up the key, not to get red hot, just a little bit hot with a lighter or matches and then slowly just start inserting it into the lock ’til you get it. Also, you can heat the key in your hand and just heat it up bit by bit. Heat it up and then put it in a little bit. It could take two, three, five, ten times. Sooner or later, key is gonna go in and it will turn. So if you have absolutely nothing, you can use your hand and heat it up.

So the whole door is frozen. The easiest quickest way is you get some windshield lock de-icer or this is windshield and window de-icer. You can, actually, I’ll tell you how to make your own. Basically it’s isopropyl alcohol, rubbing alcohol. Just spray the whole side. Spray the lock, spray the sides of the door. And then you can get the door open. You can make your own lock de-icer as well as your windshield de-icer. For your lock de-icer just use this rubbing alcohol. This is great just for raw lock de-icer.

If you want to make some windshield de-icer, it works fantastic. Use 2/3 of this, of the high quality rubbing alcohol with 1/3 water. So 2/3 of this, 1/3 water. This works great. You put this on, you do it before you go to bed. But in the morning you just spray it on real quick. And this just de-ices the windshield in two seconds. It’s absolutely fantastic. No more scraping, no more rubbing. Just spray and the ice just goes away. So I hope this has been of help to unfreeze your frozen car locks.
Do Not Use Boiling Water to Unfreeze the Car.

Hopefully these simple methods can help you. If you do call us at Mr. Locksmith Professional Locksmiths to open your car we use a portable rechargeable hair dryer and Lock De-icer to open your frozen car door lock.

I hope you enjoyed watching this video. Subscribe to my channel. Also, visit my website and you can see what online locksmith training I have for beginners, intermediate, and advanced, as well as my covert methods of entry, and my non-destructive methods of entry.

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