Can you make a key from scratch?

ms51ves3 · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Karma :

I only have 1 key for my RX-S and I took it to a locksmith but they couldn't get a matching key.
Could I make one from scratch or would that be too difficult?

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This is the ignition switch that is on it.

LeeR · World Chat Champion Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Karma :

Not doubting their service or professionalism, but I think they fobbed you off (get it?) and I'd shop around. It looks like a bog standard ignition key to my untrained eye, it wasn't lunch-time was it?
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ms51ves3 · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Karma :

My dad took it somewhere in Manchester at lunch time. They said they would try and order one in for the week after but it wasn't looking promising. My dad went a week after to get it cut but they couldn't get the key to cut so I'm stuck with one.

Kal · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Karma :

Whats it say on the key there?

Looks the same as the pattern lock I fitted to the CG.
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ms51ves3 · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Karma :

It says Qinf.

Kal · World Chat Champion Joined: 02 Jan 2007 Karma :

It's a pattern lock. The first one I bought from Worlds End Motorcycles and the second I got from my local independant bike mechanic.

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Ah righty it is a wemoto special, a bit more expensive than I remember too.

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Sorry not the most helpful post in the world, serves me right for posting while tired. What I meant was if it were still original then you shouldn't have a problem, pattern lock not so much.

That said after I changed the lock on the CG a friend offered to set me up with a vehicle locksmith who would change all the locks to a single key for about £25.

So stuff can be done - all you need is a locksmith with a decent range of blanks for vehicle keys. Yellow pages ftw! Thumbs Up

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Finglonga · World Chat Champion Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Karma :

ms51ves3 · Super Spammer Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Karma :

I'll google some locksmiths and ride around Thumbs Up

colin1 · Captain Safety Joined: 17 Feb 2005 Karma :

yeah just try a few places
they are not all the same

one place i went to said he would order one, and i would keep going in every week for three months and it just wdnt be there

i eventually decided to try another place, and they had one in stock and did it in five minutes
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chris-red · Have you considered a TDM? Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Karma :

I got one cut for mine, the code on the key was 20i or maybe 20 L. Thumbs Up

I got one cut for my speed four too, apparantly it uses the same key as a vespa Embarassed

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