What happens when you lose your only car key?

[Dominic]

if you really want to find the key, go pay for another one. As soon as you come home - voila! - you will find the first one. Works all the time for me.

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[Tennenbaum]

Yeah for real.

Luckily I did find the stupid thing under the couch. I think perhaps the cat knocked it off the table or something. In any event what a waste of a day.

Thanks all. I'll have to go this weekend and get a copy made.

[ScottHoward]

how is it that nobody has said "walk" yet?

[BCPVP]

Dealerships aren't the only places that cut keys. If your keys don't have a computer chip in them, you can sometimes get them cut at a hardware store. At the store I work at, two sided keys are $2 and $0.50 more if you want that black plastic head on them. I'm not sure what dealerships charge to have those made.

[Green Kool Aid]

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if you really want to find the key, go pay for another one. As soon as you come home - voila! - you will find the first one. Works all the time for me.

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when i was in high school i lost my license for like two months, so i had to get a new one.

the day the new one came in the mail, i found the old one.

same rule applies if you are waiting for someone outside and it's cold/rainy, as soon as you go indoors to be warm/dry, the person will shortly arrive.

[kipin]

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Dealerships aren't the only places that cut keys. If your keys don't have a computer chip in them, you can sometimes get them cut at a hardware store. At the store I work at, two sided keys are $2 and $0.50 more if you want that black plastic head on them. I'm not sure what dealerships charge to have those made.

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You need a copy of the key to get it copied at a hardware store.

[TheNoodleMan]

This is only tangentially related, but when did they come up with this new machine for copying keys? Back in the old days there was always a guy grinding them out by hand but now they have a machine that they just stick your key and a blank in and it pops out the new one in about 30 seconds. They keys seem to be really good too, none of the hit and miss copies of the old days.

[BCPVP]

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Dealerships aren't the only places that cut keys. If your keys don't have a computer chip in them, you can sometimes get them cut at a hardware store. At the store I work at, two sided keys are $2 and $0.50 more if you want that black plastic head on them. I'm not sure what dealerships charge to have those made.

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You need a copy of the key to get it copied at a hardware store.

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Of course. She said she found them already and that's what I was replying to. I'm not sure what dealerships charge for regular keys so if it's more than a couple bucks she should look elsewhere. GM keys are easy to make.

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This is only tangentially related, but when did they come up with this new machine for copying keys?

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This is the company you should direct your question towards

[BCPVP]

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This is only tangentially related, but when did they come up with this new machine for copying keys? Back in the old days there was always a guy grinding them out by hand but now they have a machine that they just stick your key and a blank in and it pops out the new one in about 30 seconds. They keys seem to be really good too, none of the hit and miss copies of the old days.

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Heh, I like using the machine where I grind it myself. That way you can take a little more off if necessary or modify a key to be the right shape. We have people coming in all the time saying that the keys we cut usually work better than those computer cut keys.