Vehicle thieft???

[VR38]

I think someone may have broken into my car, nothing was missing and the drivers door was still deadlocked but the three passenger doors were open.
Question, could there have been some sort of malfunction where I have deadlocked the car but not noticed that only the drivers door locked or did someone force entry to the car but the drivers door did not unlock?

Attached two pictures;
First is some old damage to the drivers door where I assume the previous owners have had problems, could they be using this as point of entry?



Second photo is some recent damage (but not from this day) where I believe someone may have attempted entry via the top of the door.



If you do not wish to give the game away then PM me your responses.

Any help in regards to how the three passenger doors were open or how to prevent it whilst deadlocked will be greatly appreciated.

[IBLOWN]

Did you have a big night the night before?

[Brett_jjj]

Id be first checking if the deadlocking feature is correctly working on all doors. You can do this by locking someone inside the car and then deadlocking it, get the person inside the car to try to unlock the doors by lifting the locking buttons,if they can be unlocked, the deadlocking feature is not working correctly.

[Jonah 101]

In the first pic you can see a dent made from the inside, i would be picking they useed (i dont know what it called) a spiecal hammer to try break the lock and get in.
My mates mums car had a dent like that and the panel beater told her thats what it was.

[VR38]

Id be first checking if the deadlocking feature is correctly working on all doors. You can do this by locking someone inside the car and then deadlocking it, get the person inside the car to try to unlock the doors by lifting the locking buttons,if they can be unlocked, the deadlocking feature is not working correctly.

I've checked from inside, altho the buttons can be lifted somewhat I cannot open any of the doors.

[VR38]

Did you have a big night the night before?

Yeah maybe.
If it is not possible to get any of the buttons up with the deadlock system, even by jimmying under the lock then I may have had a one off malfunction where only the drivers door lock went down and I may have walked away without checking.
Just wanted to be sure because I have never came back to the car after parking it somewhere and found it like the way it was with three buttons up.

[aussie4life11]

i had a similar situation. i went to do the shopping a couple of weeks ago and when i came out with my trolley full i went to go unlock my car, vr remote single button, pressed the button and it locked on me. but the thing is when i went into the shop, i swear to god i locked it. maybe i did? maybe i didnt? ill never know. all i know is my stuff was all still there

[hako]

Overcoming the deadlock is probably quite simple - just use a small slide hammer to completely remove the door lock which is only held in place with a clip and once the lock is out you may find that the deadlocking is now turned off. This is presumption of course - the door lock has the deadlocking microswitch attached so I'm guessing if it is forcible removed it will release the microswitch. If not then all you'd need to do is stick a finger in to flick the microswitch. That just gets you inside the car. Attached is a pic of the actual switch.

[aussie4life11]

geez hako, your switch looks corroded as hell
lol

[hako]

Nah...it's just the clip holding the switch that's rusted. I've sprayed it all with Lanolin. Microswitch can fail internally as it gets wet - poor design as if it fails when deadlocked you need to break something.

[aussie4life11]

haha my bad, didnt look closely enough

[VR38]

Well it has happened a couple of times again in the last week, it appears that the micro switch is faulty when I key the deadlock, only pulling down the drivers lock, remote key still pulls down all four locks.