What a code!

Well, yes, usually I do. Actually, I have more trouble with upside down Tylos than I do right side up ones.

Just remember how easy some locks are to rake - I have a cheap euro cylinder, made in france, and on a good day it opens within half of a second.

i did that once, in front of a BUILDER no less. stuck the pick IN, and it was unlocked.., held still while I got something to turn the plug..total time, 3 seconds...scared him to pieces... HATE Weslocks..

--Shiva--

A friend of mine had Three '56 Chevys, a 2 dr Hard Top, Nomad, & Convertible. all completely restored. He wanted the locks on all three re-keyed to all #2 depth and the keys cut smooth across the blade to a #2 depth so they looked like a blank key. Try as I might I couldn't talk him out of it. I used all new GM tumblers in the locks and original GM blanks to cut the keys to try and keep everything as tight as possible. I tried as many off brand blanks as I could to see if any of them would open the locks and none did. I told him if any of his cars were stolen not to come whining to me.....

Leon Rowell

--Shiva-- wrote:

I had an aunt and uncle that both bought 1956 Chevrolet Bel-Air 4-door sedans new, 9 months apart, 2 different dealers 40 miles apart

came from the factory with identical key codes.

few years back had 2 'funnies'..

brand new Chevy S10, left door and ign lock was fine, but right door lock didnt work.. keyed wrong.

I bought a new 1983 Dodge Colt.... key code H4464 , I was a little intoxicated one night as left the bar, I found my car ... but somebody had stolen the interior! but they replaced it with a black one!

And added an automatic transmission!

It took me a few minutes but I finally figured it out !

I found several cars that worked on that code.

British car makers years ago keyed the trunk differently from the rest of the car. I gather this was to stop tools, fittings etc being stolen in transit. The ignition car stayed with the car and the trunk key went with the paperwork. About 150 - 200 keys (on 3 profiles or so - MRN, FA, FP) then covered many cars. The original Mini was easy to hot-wire, just put your hand under the dashboard pull a wire off the lug behind the ignition switch and place it on the adjacent lug.

Here's an unusual car key story...

In the early 90's, one of the guys in my fathers office was showing off his new car (Toyota or Honda I believe).

Well, when my father was leaving for the day, his co-worker asked my father to move the car closer as he was needing to spend a little more time after work finishing up a project.

Dad was looking at the key, and thought he'd seen one like it before. Dad reached into his pocket to get his keys out (Dad got to his personal car first, and was going to drop his breifcase in the seat) and realized where he'd seen the new key. It looked like the key for his 1979 MG Midget - cut and shape!

Dad tried his MG key in the dorr an ignition - worked perfect.

About 6 months later I worked for a shop in a local mall that copied keys. A customer asked me to cut his MG key (assuming I hadn't heard of an MG...), I told him, "no problem, pulled the blank down, cut it, and he was on his merry way. 15 minutes later, he came back and asked how I knew what blank to use, as every place he'd been to couldn't do it. I told him it was magic ;-)

Trey

I went (together with a friend) to a locksmith to get two keys copied

- one key from my keyring A to put it onto my friends keyring B, and another key from B to put it onto keyring A. The locksmith recognized that the key from ring A does not need to be copied because it already was present on keyring B.

We started sorting things out and found that his girlfirend frontdoor key was the one that was identical to the one we wanted to copy, a key for a large number of identical keyed "contruction" locks for shelters while the shelters had to be accessible for different companies to do some electric installations.

But it was the most common lock type for german doors, the cheap Abus standard model, I guess billions of them had been produced...so things like that must happen now and then.

I stayed in a motel with a MK of 00000 or 11111. With a little wear the keys, used by the maids, could be removed while the plug was still turned - which is how I found my door one day. (In complaining to the guy on the desk he showed me the MK.) Looking at other rooms, some of them weren't locked either.

bud--

was out with a former boss one day, she has a 1990-something Suburban

well, she locked her keys in her car....

I had my set of keys to a 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass, tried that door key, nuttin

I also had the set of keys to a friends 1982 Oldsmobile Cutlass that I previously owned, and guess what?

that door key worked....

boss was glad to see that door open, I was just screwing around to calm her down.

my dad had a 1971 Dodge Colt, way back when

I used to go to the Dodge dealer, and try the key in all the Colts on the lot.

dealer, dad, and I were all friends, fortunately.....