How to fix a seat lock?

[GREENI3]

How would you repair a seat lock with a snapped off key stuck in it?

[N cee thirty]

take it a locksmiths and get them to take it out
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[whitedevil]

Needle nose pliers or superglue the broken bits together if you cant grab it with pliers. coping saw blade into the teeth of the broken key could work.

[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

I'd take the key out. HTH
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[HD]

As before, try and grab it out with pliers. You could superglue the end of something and then stick it to your key.

Or you could, if you have, a fecking strong magnet. I doubt this will work as it will stick to the lock aswell as the key.

Let us know how you do it though!
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[Teflon-Mike]

I presume its the RIGHT key in the lock?
If so the tumblers inside should all be lined up, and you just need some way to turn it.
Pliers would be my start, and I's be messing with bull-nosed trying to grip the broken stub to twist, or a pair of pin nosed pushed into teh cracks to get the barel to turn.
After that, it would be a case of trying to find something to get the barel to turn, and a thing screwdriver pressed in flat against the key shank...
after that I'd probably be looking at the welder and thinking that I could weld a tang ot the thing, of not, errode the whole darn lot out!

If you could get the broken shank out, do you have a spare key?
If not, was that also the ignition key?
Prompting suggestion you're probably going to need a full lock-set anyway)
I mean, are you trying to salvahe the lock here for any good reason, or can it be utterly destroyed?
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