Re: Door lock

In alt.autos.toyota.camry, on Sun, 24 Dec 2023 19:45:21 +0000,
[email protected] (MummyChunk) wrote:

>
> > FMurtz wrote:
> > Does the camry key cylinder have a mechanical connection with the
>door 
> > latch or does it rely on the electric solenoid? IE.will it open
>door if 
> > there is no power to the solenoid system.
>
>Did you ever get a
>answer for this?

I"m sure it will.  If not, how would one open a locked car when the
battery was dead. 

In fact, I am the duke of dischargeed batteries.   I've had to solicit
jumps over 100 times on the streets of Chicago, NYC, and Baltimore. Once
I even got one from a very pretty young black woman.  Usually women
won't stop at all, let alone pretty ones. 

But then I got Battery Buddy, and when it stopped working and was no
longer for sale, I got Priority Start, which is at least twice as
expnsive, but well worth it.   They both disconnect the battery before
it's so dead it won't start the car. 

My 5-year battery has 4 months left on it but it's already terrible and
even leaving the LED??? dome light on overnight will discharge the
battery.  This or something similar happened 3 or 4 times in the last 18
months including less than 3 months ago and the key still opened the
lock of course. 

This is a 2005 Toyota Solara but if that seems too different from your
car, go back to my first paragraph.  ;-) 
> 
>
>This is a response to the post seen at:
>http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=493645515#493645515
>