Lexus Trunk Lockout

Normally, for an experienced locksmith technician, automotive lockout services are pretty easy jobs to do. Even for the novice locksmith technician it shouldn't be to hard to unlock most makes and models. When a customer accidentally lock his car while the keys are inside still in the ignition or on the seat for example, all that a locksmith technician have to do is get through one of the doors using various specialty tools. However, when a customer lock the keys to his vehicle inside the trunk, that is when things start to get a little trickier.

I remember few years back I got called to unlock the trunk on a 95 Lexus model. These vehicles were always a little hard for me to work on since most of them has high security lock system, but since I didn't have any job on me that day, I decided to accept the job and try to make another customer happy. I took the customer's information and started heading out to his location.

Once I got to the customer, I asked him what exactly happen and he told me he accidentally drop the keys inside the trunk without noticing as he was putting away his shopping and closed the trunk behind him. Since I knew this model was equipped with a trunk release lever, I knew that all I had to do was unlock the vehicle and use the trunk release to open the trunk. However, for that to work, the alarm must be unarmed and luckily it was.

After I got my tools from the van, I had the vehicle opened and couple of minutes, but when I went to pull the trunk release lever, it didn't work for some reason. At that point I had to figure out a way to get to the trunk which didn't include drilling the lock, so I called another Boise locksmith friend of mine to see maybe he can get me to the right direction for unlocking trunk.

When I got my locksmith friend on the phone, he mentioned that there is a way to manually pop the trunk open. He said that if I will access the trunk release mechanism by taking the dashboard part that close to it. Once I will have an access to the mechanism he said, I would have to remove the locking clip and push the spring loaded tab. After I did all the process explained to me, I was able to manually pop the trunk by pushing the spring loaded tab and retrieve the customer his keys from the trunk.

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Schlage Lock Tip

During my many years as a locksmith technician there were many times where I was able to find a solution for a job just by thinking outside the box. There were many times I got stuck doing a job since I didn't have the right part or something went wrong which forced me to improvise in order to complete the job. Through experience I learned to always save parts from various jobs since I knew they may come useful later on. On other times, I found  that unrelated parts that I had saved for a certain job actually came useful for another.

Not too long ago I got a call from one of my customers who wanted me to re-key the lock on his front door. The lock he had was actually a Schlage high security lock that I installed few months before, but he lost once of the keys to it recently and wanted it re-keyed for his peace of mind. Being a returned customer, I accepted the job without any further questions and headed to his address.

Once I got to the customer's home, I started the removal process of the Schlage lock from the door. After the lock was removed, I took with me to the van in order to take it apart and start the re-key process. As I was taking the cylinder off to remove the pins, the cylinder cap retaining spring jumped right off and flew across the van. After few minutes of looking for the spring, I finally gave up and decided to start looking for a replacement. Unfortunately, I did not have any replacement with me, so I had to call another Boise Locksmith technician friend of mine to see if he can bail me out.

When I got my locksmith technician friend on the phone, he said he was to far away from me to come bring me some springs, but he also mentioned something else that I didn't know. Apparently, cylinder springs from a GM pining kit work as a replacement just as well as the original part. Luckily, I did have those with me. After grabbing a spring from the kit, I finished re-keying the cylinder, put the lock back together and re-installed it back on the door.

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Kason Handle Locks

It seem that many things has changes in the locksmith business in the last decade or so. Especially when it comes to products such as locks and keys. Even though the manufactures still carry the same name and the same logo, the products seem different and probably manufactured in different places from where it use to be. Most of the time, it will be hardly noticeable, but every now and then I will bump into a glitch in a product I wasn't expecting which happening because it is manufactured in a different place differently now.

Along with the usual calls that I am getting on a regular basis, I have few commercial companies that I work closely with them regularly. Among these companies there a truck fleet company in which I did some work few times before. I remember one time the company called me to make a new key for the cargo compartment locks on all of their trucks. These cargo compartments normally equipped with Kason handles and usually there is no issue making new key for the. The codes can always be found on the key-way which are usually a Corbin KH.

Usually, I have a certain blank that I know work with these locks and I usually use. However, since the lock company (Kason) started getting their products from China, the blanks I usually use don't seem to work very well anymore. Luckily, there is a way to make the blanks work with the new designed handles. All that needed to be done to the blanks is file the the bottom shoulder of the key which close to the head. That modification  made the key fit the old and new design as well.

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