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Automotive Locksmith in San Francisco

Street parking is the whole story here, so the work happens at the kerb where the car stands: on a grade in Bernal with the wheels turned in, in a garage under a Sunset rowhouse, in a lot in SoMa, on a driveway in the Excelsior, at the beach end of Judah. Cars on the west side bring their own version of the salt problem, which is a door lock and an ignition that both drag long before anything actually breaks. Photo ID and the registration are matched to the plate before a blank goes anywhere near the machine. Nothing gets packed away until the engine has fired twice on the new key and the doors lock and unlock with it, and a lost key can be dropped from the vehicle's memory when you want that done.

from $99

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Automotive Locksmith by Bay Gate in San Francisco

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Automotive services and their price ranges

All sixteen jobs and their ranges sit on this page, nothing saved for the phone. Describe what the key is doing and the range closes to one figure on the call, with the evening or overnight hour already folded in.

Car Key Replacement

$175–$429

A key cut and coded in the space the car is sitting in, spare included, even when the last key is gone. $175 to $429, registration checked first.

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Key Fob Programming

$99–$205

A vehicle remote or proximity fob paired without moving the car off the block it is parked on. $99 to $205, and the floor there is the visit itself.

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Ignition Repair

$189–$449

An ignition that drags, will not turn, or turns and leaves the dash dead, rebuilt or swapped where the car stands. $189 to $449.

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Motorcycle Keys

$119–$275

Bikes and scooters, blade cut and chip coded where the machine is parked. $119 to $275.

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Coast to Bay, One Figure

Four things that hold the same way for a Sunset rowhouse with a garage under the living floor, an Edwardian flat off Fillmore, a Mission storefront behind a roll-down grille and a loft in SoMa. The workmanship is warranted for ninety days, named on the receipt.

One figure on the call, whether the lock seized or the door simply shut behind you. On the phone nobody knows yet which one it is, and you should not have to guess to get a price. The number quoted covers the visit, the labour and the parts either way: a cylinder full of corrosion that has to come out, a snapped blade that has to come back out of the keyway, or a door that closed behind you with a perfectly healthy lock in it. San Francisco plus Daly City, Colma, Brisbane, South San Francisco and Pacifica, 24 hours, holidays included.
The receipt shows that same figure, whatever turns up inside the keyway. A 1912 mortise set that has been painted over four times. A cylinder green with corrosion at the tailpiece. A bolt so swollen with rust it has not thrown fully since the spring. A landlord's second lock from 1987 that never matched anything. None of it moves the number. Your card is charged what you were told on the phone and an itemised receipt reaches your email before the van leaves the block.
Opened without damage first, and a drill only after you say so. Picks, decoders and bypass tools come out before anything destructive does, because a seized cylinder is often still openable and a lock that survives the visit is a lock you do not have to pay to replace. When one genuinely will not give, you hear what it is doing, what would go in its place and what that costs, and it is your call. Agreeing to a drill has never earned anyone here a larger number.
Ninety days on the work, and the part is named before it goes on. If a cylinder is being replaced you are told the make, the grade and the finish while the old one is still on the door, because on the west side the finish is the whole argument: plain brass is a consumable there, and marine-grade stainless costs more once instead of twice. Ninety days on the labour, the maker standing behind the part, and both spelled out on the receipt rather than implied.

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San Francisco plus Daly City, Colma, Brisbane, South San Francisco and Pacifica, 24 hours, holidays included. Stiff, halfway, snapped, or a healthy lock on the wrong side of a closed door: one number comes back with the $89 visit and the hour of the night already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt.

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