Mum forgot suitcase lock and my bridesmaid dress for tomorrow is inside..help!

[Missmuffin1984]

A long shot here but has anyone managed to reset a suitcase PIN code?
or break into a suitcase?

my mum offered to put the dress in her back and my heels and can’t remember the pin, I am screwed!

Yes, in my case all I did was apply constant pressure to the button that opens the lock and flick through the numbers. It popped open as soon as I hit the right one.

Same reason they keep on about hotel handymen when the OP has clearly stated she’s at home. They don’t actually read anything properly.

You just work through the numbers. It will take an hour or so with a 4-digit combination

I'm assuming she hsdmt got the key? There's a key hole. Samsonite can be unlocked both ways.

Take to your local fire station and plead for help? Or local gym and see if they have boltcutters for their lockers that could crunch your way in?

https://10best.usatoday.com/interests/travel-tips/tsa-lock-forgot-combination/

Just go through the combinations, it’s only 3 numbers so won’t take long.

That's a good reason to start with a small number, even if you don't remember what it is! Mine code is pencilled in my passport, just in case!

Just go through the numbers from 000 to 999. It will take less than 40 mins. I know because I had a colleague that felt we couldn’t be trusted with free access to the stationary cabinet and used to lock the key away. She regularly changed the code to the key safe containing the key and I regularly sat next to the key safe after work finished and went through the numbers.

Read the date and time….wedding will have taken place by now.

OPhasnte been back so perhaps solved.

Jab a ballpoint pen into the zipper - works on most

This post is actually a bit frightening. I am now imagining all the thieves in my area carefully working through all the numerical permutations on the combination bike locks while listening to you and Yours on Radio 4.

Oh come on - all these locks do is make your suitcase a less attractive proposition than someone else's: if they've nicked your case they are unlikely to care about damaging it to get at the contents.

In fact DP never locks his as he doesn't see the point.

Edit: I misread you'd put bike lock. There are better locks for bikes and always put a bike somewhere it can easily be seen as that can be a deterrent in itself.

As opposed to terminally rude?

With a four number lock there are 10,000 permutations.

Assuming each attempt took five seconds (to minimise the chance of making an error because you wouldn't want to start over again) then working through all the possible permutations would take up to just under 14 hours

Even if each attempt took only 2.5 seconds you'd be looking at up to 7 hours.

Only if you had to work with a three number combination lock would it take an hour or so.

If she’s never used the lock then it’s likely to be the default combination

I had a huge panic at the airport when I forgot the code for DH’s suitcase. My passport was inside. A kind check in person had me sit on a bench and work my way through from 0000. It took about 10
minutes to get it open. Just start from the beginning and you’ll get it open!

The locks aren't that well made. Put gentle pressure on the lock and go through the numbers. You can often 'feel' there correct number, then try the next one.

As a teacher I'd often be sent pupils - boys usually - who had combination lock briefcases. Either they'd forgotten or 'friends' had changed the number for a joke. Some years ago as no pupil would be seen dead with one nowadays!

If there’s time you can get a key off Amazon for TSA locks on a suitcase. I’ve had to do this before. Pops it right open.

Did she ever get in?

@Missmuffin1984 ???

I’ve done this before, if it is a lock that snaps open when you get the right combination it can be done in an hour or so. Slightly longer if it’s a two-step process, but definitely do-able this evening.

It doesn’t take 5 secs to move a number in a dial and put pressure on the release button. I’ve done it, it takes less than a second for each permutation and that is assuming it isn’t a cheap lock where you can “feel” the right number on each dial as it clicks into place ;if it is that kind of cheap lock you can break it open in under a minute).

I forgot the code for this lock last year, turned out to be 5432 so took me a while to get round to the right number. But still much less than an hour. I’ve also forgotten various suitcase codes, has always taken me somewhere between 10-30mins to get it open.

This was my technique too. Honestly, takes far less time than you think it will.

I use my suitcase lock to avoid the suitcase falling open in transit and my belongings scattering across the baggage reclaim belt - I don’t expect it to deter thieves (who have probably just bought a TSA key off Amazon).