Trunk Lockout

[TWEngel]

Help!  Locked out of my trunk 65 - 230SL.  Lock in and won't pop back out. Key will insert but only turns about two thirds of the normal one half turn.  suspect I'll need to have the lock drilled out or slidehammered out.  Suggestions or comments?

[hauser]

How about a locksmith?

1969 Euro 280sl 5 spd
Gainesville, Fl.

[graphic66]

Get some lube in it. WD40 or something like it. Banging on it may help jar it free. Also try pushing down on the trunk. Be very careful it is thin aluminum. Maybe just tapping around the push button with something like a small hammer and a piece of wood to jiggle it free so it pops out. Get plenty of lube right in the key hole, I think it will just pop free when it gets a little oil and impact.

[TWEngel]

Good, reliable locksmith I'v known for twenty years said he wouldn't touch it.

[hill]

quote:Originally posted by TWEngel

Help!  Locked out of my trunk 65 - 230SL.  Lock in and won't pop back out. Key will insert but only turns about two thirds of the normal one half turn.  suspect I'll need to have the lock drilled out or slidehammered out.  Suggestions or comments?

Tried your profile for proximity. Since there was none ask your favorite POPO he will feel his way through the lock or his friends.

Happy Benzing
Darryl, Hill
350 SL4.5 #60
1967 250sl "California"

[al_lieffring]

The quickest way that I found (in my mis-spent youth) to break into an 113 trunk causing the least damage was to take an ice pick and punch a hole through the rubber gasket and the sheet metal of the rear pannel above the lock housing just slightly to the right of the trunk relsese button.

With a piece of stiff (coat hanger) wire feel around untill you find the trunk release lever press (forward) on the lever and the trunk will pop open. Once the trunk is open, you will be able to take out the screws from the latch plate and the lock assembly and find the problem.

If you punch the hole close as you can to the chrome housing, a new rubber seal will cover up the hole.

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[Longtooth]

Try a lock smith... Pete Smith locked his keys in the trunk this past week-end out in timbucktoo (Eldorado Co. in Northern rural... really rural California).  He called a locksmith who showed up in 30 minutes from a local town nearby and picked the lock in 30 sec's!  No lie, I was there.

The fact that the key only turns 2/3's of the full 180 degrees it should means it's a lock tumbler problem... any locksmith worth his salt should be able to pick it.  If some rural locksmith can do this in 30 sec's then it should be the 1st option you try.  On the other hand I've heard of some other w113 owner taking 2 days and going thru several locksmiths & several $100s before one of them were able to pick the lock.

Longtooth
67 250SL US #113-043-10-002163
The 6% Club - Best of the Best
'02 SL500 Sport

[psmith]

Hey...that was a secret  :oops:

Pete S.