I have been recently moving & forgot that when you unlock the car, but don't open the door, the car locks itself again after a minute or so...

I made my way to my car, with my arms loaded up & the key in my hand. I clicked the unlock button, opened the hatch-back & plonked the arm-full of belongings in the boot (along with the key...) My phone started ringing. I sat in the boot & took the call, had a bit of a chin-wag, jumped up & closed the hatch...

So my car is now completely locked with the key in the boot! My only savior is that both front windows are down ~10mm & the back seat is folded flat. I got a long metal rod & tried the unlock button on the inside of the drivers door. Nope. I called VW assist, who sent out a guy from the NRMA, although i knew he wouldn't be able to unlock it. He tried to break off both my inside door handles by pulling on them SO hard with a long rigid wire with a hook on the end, with me telling him it wouldn't work, & him insisting it would, if he did it 3 times in quick succession on the passenger side...

While he was on the phone & internet looking for solutions, i taped together two of his rigid wires with a Macgyvered up coat hanger on the end, poked it through the drivers window & somehow (very luckily) managed to hook the keys from the diagonally opposite corner of the car & drag them through to the 10mm opening at the top of my window! Yay!

When NRMA guy saw what i was up to he's like saying 'stop doing that! If you drop my wires in there, i'll never get them back'... But it worked & i learned a valuable lesson!