Saturday we drove from Cloudcroft to Phoenix. We stop in Tucson at Cheesecake Factory before the final leg. And we have our nibble and tea and we pay. I make a pit stop, Russet goes to the car to walk the dogs.
And she can't open the door!
A little back story.
Last year or very early this year, I don't remember, she took the dogs for a run up the mountain approx half-way between Cloudcroft and the observatory. Unbeknownst to her, she had a hole in her pocket, and her car keys fell out! She calls me, I come out to help her look for them, and we fail. But at least I have an aux key for her car and can get her home. We go out a second time, and while we don't find them, there's RV campers who figure out what we're doing and they'd found them.
And they'd been run-over. Her remote key fob was OK, the remote fob for my car: RIP. Thoroughly crushed, the circuit board was snapped in half. It was hit just right.
Since that happened, she started using my valet key, which manually opens the door - you know, insert key in lock and turn - and starts the car. Beats paying $3-400 for a new remote.
Until Saturday night when we discovered that not only does her key no longer open my car, but MY key no longer opens my door when inserted into the lock!
The event between, let's say pre-Thanksgiving, and now? My car accident where the woman made the illegal left turn and smashed the left front of my car.
They had to repaint the driver's door, apparently there was some mild damage. Apparently when they put the inner door back on, someone failed to notice they hadn't reconnected the key lock!
So now I'm going to have to take it back in to the body shop and have them do that. Hopefully it won't take long, but they'll have to take that door panel off, which is a bit of a hassle.
*sigh*
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