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How to break the ignition cylinder and start it with a screwdriver instead??...

• Thread starter JoLLyRoGer
• Kickoff appointment Apr 26, 2013

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• #1

Then... I have lost all keys to my $700.00 beater Honda that I commute to work each 24-hour interval. This has resulted in an unacceptable number of miles, bugs, and road dirt being put on the Mustang this week...

There is but one solution to this. The Honda must now become screwdriver operated.

I turn down to spend the money to do whatsoever it will take to get another central fabricated be it paying a locksmith or replacing the ignition. Either way it's WAY more than I am prepared to invest in a $700.00 car.

Then... since I accept no Chiliad Theft Machine skills of my own, how's it washed?

• #2

Probably won't happen with a Honda. Year/model?

I've generally known this to be a trait of older American cars. Like, pre-OBD2 or earlier. Single-sided key. The cylinder just gets so loose that precise tumbler alignment is no longer required to turn it.

There should be a way to obtain the stock key code at little or no cost...dealer parts dept tin get it, only they might non desire to without charging you for a central. Dunno how much a factory blank is, but evidently steel replacements are very inexpensive, and one time you have the lawmaking, anyone with a key auto tin can cut information technology in about five minutes.

I don't think Abode Depot or the like can cut an automotive key from a lawmaking, merely a well-equipped locksmith will have access to a automobile. It'due south only a trivial box that sits on a tabletop and has a rudimentary computer build into information technology. Or you can find a friend that works for a rental visitor or some such. I worked for Hertz and would cut keys for other random employees all the time. They just had to bring the bare (okay not really I just stole blanks out of the pile. one-half the time they were long-obsolete, anyhow).

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• #three

I got keys cut for my MR2 for about $10 from Toyota, I think. It may be worth calling a Honda dealer with the VIN to run into if they can make 1.

• #4

Hmm.. guess I'll effort that road before destroying stuff. It's a 93 Accord so I don't think it uses a laissez passer-central of any kind.

Where can I find the fundamental code if the Dealer records don't get back that far? Would it exist stamped on the ignition cylinder somewhere?

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• #5

Did they accept plain stamped steel blanks? I figured the dealer key would price a good $xx or more because they included three cents worth of plastic with a logo on it. That'southward my experience, at least.

• #half-dozen

Well, they had a plastic head on them, simply nothing the size of today's keys with the fries inside. Like if you took a plainly sometime steel primal and dipped the head in some plastic.

• #7

phucheneh, jlee.. Yous guys are crawly! Thanks for that advise.

Just called the local Honda dealership and gave them the VIN and I'll be damned.. they have the key code for that old piece of junk!! I thought for sure information technology would have been too old for the recordbooks.

$3.04 for a new central.. Ok, I can handle that.

• #8

was-gonna-edit-just-kinda-late-now-so-here's-a-reply:

The dealer doesn't take records. Possibly the selling dealer; if they actually entered the key code when they put the car into their computer organization...but as old and shitty equally it looks, I don't think modern dealer software (Reynolds is rather ubiquitous) was around in the early 90'southward. So information technology would just be on paper; i.eastward. some of the forms in the packet of crap you sign when you buy a car. That stuff (dealer copies) would exist deeply mothballed if information technology fifty-fifty still existed.

Only have no fear: the manufacturer should always have those kinds of records (primal codes and radio codes are most oft-retrieved)...you simply have to go through the dealer. Bring proof of ownership, in case they ask for it.

Alternatively- does the car still have the manual or any other papers? If Honda was prissy enough to include a little zipper-volume where everything could be blimp and forgotten about for xx years...look for a folded up sheet that says 'pre-delivery inspection.' Usually has key lawmaking. In that location may also exist a little metal tag with a number on it stuff in there. Await for anything with like 4-6 random digits on it.

• #9

Double-ninja'd.

3.04 for the bare and no labor for cutting? I'd say win. Hooray non-lazy parts guys.

• #10

Its then piece of cake for them to cut those keys at the dealership. Fifty-fifty the sales guys could do it in most v minutes without e'er having done one before. And last time I went to the dealer for some keys they gave me ones without plastic, and they costed more than that.

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I've generally known this to exist a trait of older American cars. Like, pre-OBD2 or earlier. Single-sided key. The cylinder just gets and so loose that precise tumbler alignment is no longer required to turn it.

Heh, my dad's old 1982 Ford Courier pickup truck was like that afterwards a number of years. Anything that could physically plow the thing would commencement information technology. Business firm keys. Screwdriver. Anything that tin can fit in it that wouldn't spin (wide enough) and wouldn't break could start it.

• #12

Had a Ford that had a neckband with two tabs where key would be inserted into ignition cylinder. Cylinder was and so worn that primal was non needed, just turn the neckband using the tabs.

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