replacement chubb keys

[master in training]

my friend's dad owns a car repair garage with a chubb lever lock fitted to the front door, i think its a 5 lever, but im not certain, he thought he'd lost his keys once and to cut a long story short, said that to get new keys to a chubb, you have to send away to chubb and stuff and all of the keys cut for chubb locks are registered with chubb, is this true or not?

it seemed a little odd for this kind of system to be in place, but anything is possible i suppose! should i correct him or is he right?

[pinky]

chubb make certain locks ie the 135 lock i believe that keys are only obtainable from chubb direct by the registered lock owner, others can only be cut by a chubb super centre.

it depends what lock its for and what lock and key profile it is, dependent upon this info, he could well be right.

[KR]

chubb do a restrcted square shanked key. look at the curtain see if it is souare. this is easy to change . just change the bolt thrower.

[master in training]

thanks guys!

its no major problem, i dont need to replace any keys, it just seemed a slightly strange concept and so i asked about it, if he does need to replace any of the keys in future though, i know how now, thank you!