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BouseBill
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WARNING!!!!
Installed replacement Fastec lock set per their recall instructions three weeks ago. Everything was fine until late yesterday afternoon. The boss lady came home and tried to unlock the door.......nothing....The key would not go all the way into the dead bolt lock for some reason. Luckily she had no real emergency reason to get in the 5er. I came home about 45 minutes later and tried my key. The key would not go all the way into the dead bolt lock. We had left a window open in the rear end cap so I was able to get my ladder and climb in. The deadbolt lock would NOT unlock from the inside either. I had to use a phillips screw drive to dismantle the door latch and lock set to get the door to open. I thought this was the reason for the initial recall to begin with? Glad it failed when we were both out of the rig and not at night when a real emergency happened because we would have been locked in with no way out other than the emergency exits.
I tried calling Fastec but got their answering machine. I guess they were closed already on a Friday afternoon so I'll have to try them again on Monday.
Kinda scary that the replacement lock set failed. I hope we didn't jump out of the frying pan into the fire with this little project.
Installed replacement Fastec lock set per their recall instructions three weeks ago. Everything was fine until late yesterday afternoon. The boss lady came home and tried to unlock the door.......nothing....The key would not go all the way into the dead bolt lock for some reason. Luckily she had no real emergency reason to get in the 5er. I came home about 45 minutes later and tried my key. The key would not go all the way into the dead bolt lock. We had left a window open in the rear end cap so I was able to get my ladder and climb in. The deadbolt lock would NOT unlock from the inside either. I had to use a phillips screw drive to dismantle the door latch and lock set to get the door to open. I thought this was the reason for the initial recall to begin with? Glad it failed when we were both out of the rig and not at night when a real emergency happened because we would have been locked in with no way out other than the emergency exits.
I tried calling Fastec but got their answering machine. I guess they were closed already on a Friday afternoon so I'll have to try them again on Monday.
Kinda scary that the replacement lock set failed. I hope we didn't jump out of the frying pan into the fire with this little project.