Help - emergency!

[The_Laird]

Latest update - the car is open!

My father in law has a local autoelectrician who managed to get the boot open (it had stopped even opening that) and "b******d aboot" with the pump and opened the doors. Key still doesn't work though, so he's taken that away to check it out.

So I'm standing by with the spare key ready to stick that in express post if the other key is beyond mending.

Can anyone think what may have happened to explain the following sequence of events:

1. Car would not lock with 'blipper' but had done so a few times earlier the same morning
2. But it did lock with the key
3. An hour or so later, it would not unlock with 'blipper' or key
4. But the boot did open OK with the key
5. When trying to open the doors with the key, you could hear the central locking pump motor going
5. Eventually, the boot didn't open with the key (until the guy "b******d aboot" with the key and blipper)
6. Car doors opened when the pump was fidddled with, but key still won't open doors
7. BTW the alarm doesn't seem to arm when the doors are locked with the key.