Plastic key pick????

[maxxed]

I had a call a few days ago, a freind had locked the keys in the car. When I got there I found that I did not have any auto opening tools with me. I could pick the door lock the wrong way but had no luck picking to open, I even tried using a plug spinner but there was too much weight in the linkage. I could see the key on the seat so I decoded the key visually and made a working key from a piece of plastic sheet.( I also did not have my foreign key blanks or clipper). The plastic key held the wafers at the correct height and I could then use a tension wrench to open the car. I have used this trick a few times with good results.

[TOWCH]

That beats my coat hanger shenanigans.

[What]

i made a key for my front door out of plexi,

but it wore down too quickly.

[maxxed]

This method is intended as a solution for locks that are creating problems on site. The key produced only has to work once.

[lockedin]

Just wondering: what did you use to cut the key? This has got my imagination going.

[maxxed]

The plastic used was from a "Crazy Carpet" and trimmed to basic key shape with an Olfa knife. The cuts of the key were made with a needle file.

[Mutzy]

DO you have a picture of the key? Also, what type of car was it?

[maxxed]

DO you have a picture of the key? Also, what type of car was it?

I left the key with the customer. who slid it in with his credit cars, so I did not take any photo's of it. The car was a Nissan Maxima.

I should also mention that I have used this trick before, I once had to open an office that had a best cyl on it. I knew that there was a key in a different city for this lock. I had them photocopy the key and then fax it to the store I was working in. I traced the pattern onto a piece of the plastic and with a little wiggling ( ok a lot of wiggling and two plastic keys latter the lock did open).

This trick can help when there is a reference to the original key available and you do not have a blank to make a proper key, it only has to work once.

[devnill]

i made a key for my front door out of plexi,

but it wore down too quickly.

That sounds really cool! I wonder if a stronger material would work (i.e. Lexan or Pyrex)

[sams choice]

DO you have a picture of the key? Also, what type of car was it?

I left the key with the customer. who slid it in with his credit cars, so I did not take any photo's of it. The car was a Nissan Maxima.

Is that really wise to leave someone with a makeshift key? what if it broke on them in the door the next time? They just have more problems now...

[Shrub]

That sounds really cool! I wonder if a stronger material would work (i.e. Lexan or Pyrex)

I think you meant perspex

[CVScam]

GM cars used to come with 2 plastic key blanks inside a credit card shaped card. I used to find them in glove boxes all the time and more than 1/2 the time they had not even been cut. I always clean out the glove boxes so the previous owners information is not passed on to the next customer.


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[maxxed]

I have seen the same thing in Fords and I believe ILCO made credit card keys for seveal vehicle types. These keys are intended for emergency use only.

[Mutzy]

The Holden commosore has plastic 'emergency' keys. A customer came in a while back and needed another key cut. He had been using the emergency one for weeks...

[Mutzy]

Arrgh... ^ Holden Commodore. lack-of-edit-button...