Car keys
Car Keys
The automotive group is arranged by what has gone wrong: you are outside a locked car, you have no working key, you have a key that does not start the engine, or the lock or ignition itself has failed. Find the page that matches and it explains the visit.
Which one do I need?
- You dropped the duffel bag in the trunk, closed the lid with your elbow, and heard the keys land inside a heartbeat too late.Car Lockout Service
- You bought the car privately and it came with a single key on a shoelace.Car Key Replacement
- The proximity fob has ridden in a pocket for years, the range feels shorter than it used to, and a dashboard warning mentioned a battery a while back.Spare Car Key Duplication
- The car changed hands last week, and the paperwork included exactly one fob for a household with two drivers.Key Fob Programming
- Every key that ever opened the car is gone at once, one taken with a stolen bag, the spare misplaced months ago and never replaced.Transponder Key Programming
- A scrape sits beside the ignition slot, left by whoever tried the vehicle overnight in the driveway.Ignition Lock Repair
Car Keys
Car, van and motorcycle keys: replacements, spares, fob and transponder programming, ignition and door-lock repair.
Car Lockout Service
Cold, ice and salt
In winter the assessment starts with the weather. Frost around a door cylinder, a key that stops partway in, or a door that will not swing even unlocked all point to ice rather than a fault with the lock. Salt crust in a keyway, common on a car parked near a busy road, stiffens the wafers.
A fob that worked yesterday and fails on a minus-twenty morning can have a tired coin battery, though radio interference, a flat car battery or fob damage produce the same symptom and are checked too. The locksmith checks these so the opening is de-icer, warmth and a fresh battery rather than force, and the car is treated after to shrug off the next freeze.