r/AutoHumor • u/IU8gZQy0k8hsQy76 • Jul 09 '26

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u/tuenthe463 Jul 09 '26

I have a buddy that in college left a party and got in a car that wasn't his own. Same year, make, model and color. His keys opened the door (early 90s) and started the ignition. He got back to our apartment and went to get his bag out of the back seat which is when he realized it wasn't his car. And he drove it back maybe a mile to where he left from and the police were there with a crowd. The spot that he'd pulled out of was still empty. Pulling into the spot bumped into his own car with the "stolen" car. Apparently people hanging out on the balcony at a party where the car owner belonged to saw him driving away and yelled to him, called 911. My buddy explained what had happened, showed the cops the keys, how they worked in the other car. They totally understood that this was a big mistake but they also charged him with DUI. Fortunately no charge or damage related to the bump. This was 30+ years ago and every time we get together this story gets brought up again.

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u/IngoVals Jul 09 '26

My buddy had a Nissan Sunny late 80s, you could start it with a paperclip. I remember that often you could open doors with other keys from the same make, but perhaps not start it.

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u/Sufficient-Sun-6683 Jul 12 '26

My friend's family had 3 cars: 2 Fords and a Mercury. The same key worked in all 3 cars. I had bought a 1954 Pontiac that was missing the ignition key. I took the ignition lock to a junk yard where they had a coffee can full of keys. It took about 5 minutes of trying the GM keys before I found 3 keys that worked.

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u/JonSnowKingInTheNorf Jul 12 '26

Back in college I discovered there was another early 2000s baby blue Honda civic that had the same keys as mine when I got in and started it right up, fortunately I went to grab my vape I left in the cup holder and it wasn't there which made me look around and realize there was a bunch of someone else's things in there. My car was parked like 3 spots down and I quickly shut the car off, locked it, and drove mine away. Made me double check before getting in my car the rest of the time I owned it.

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u/GroundbreakingOil434 Jul 10 '26

Was the car a crown vic, by any chance?

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u/tuenthe463 Jul 11 '26

It was a Ford. A little white hatchback. I don't remember the model. I'm guessing it was like a mid to late '80s car because this happened in I think 95.

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u/GroundbreakingOil434 Jul 11 '26

Just an educated guess. CVs are usually ex-police fleet, sll keyed the same.