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Danville and the San Ramon Valley · 24/7

Automotive Locksmith in Danville

The car stays where it is: a long private driveway in Sycamore Valley, the lot at the golf course, a pull-off along the Iron Horse Trail, angle parking on Hartz Avenue, a visitor space inside a gated community once the entrance has been arranged. Most vehicles on these streets answer to a proximity fob rather than a blade, and the van carries programmers for them alongside blanks for the older trucks and the second car nobody drives. Your ID and the registration are read against the plate before the key machine is switched on. The van does not pack up until you have started the engine twice on the new key and worked the doors with it, and a key that has gone missing can be struck out of the vehicle memory the same afternoon.

from $99

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Automotive Locksmith by Magee in Danville

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Automotive services and their price ranges

Sixteen jobs, fourteen of them with a range and two quoted once the openings have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range here is how far the door has walked away from its frame: a leaf and a strike still in line take the low end, a leaf that has moved with the season and a strike that has to be cut back into the jamb take the high one. Say how the door behaves when you pull it to, and the range closes to a single number on the call.

Car Key Replacement

$169–$455

$169 to $455. A blade or proximity key cut and coded to the vehicle in the space it is parked in, and a spare made in the same session even when the last key is gone. Registration checked against the plate first.

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Key Fob Programming

$99–$215

$99 to $215. Vehicle remotes and proximity fobs coded at the car, and community gate remotes for a household that needs a second one. Your own fob is a household order. A change to the gate system itself goes through the association.

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Ignition Repair

$199–$495

$199 to $495. A cylinder that refuses to turn, or turns and leaves the dash dead, rebuilt or exchanged at the curb and matched to the door key already on your ring wherever the make permits it.

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Motorcycle Keys

$135–$315

$135 to $315. Bikes and scooters, blade cut from the lock code and the chip written at the roadside, with the seat and fork locks checked on the same key.

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On every job

The Frame Gets Looked At First

Four rules that behave the same on a Greenbrook tract house, a wide entry off Sycamore Valley Road, a gate fob in Blackhawk and a glass shop door on Hartz Avenue. Labor carries ninety days, written on the receipt where you can read it.

The strike and the hinges get settled before anyone sells you hardware. A bolt that will not go home is usually a bolt arriving at the wrong height, and a new lock repeats the miss for more money. So the leaf is checked for square, hinge screws are driven long enough to bite framing, a shim goes behind the top hinge on a door that has dropped, and the strike is relocated with its mortise recut so the bolt falls straight through. A good share of these calls end right there, with no lock leaving the van. When one is genuinely needed you hear the reason, and it goes onto a door that can hold it.
One figure, and the clock is already in it. What you hear on the phone covers the visit, the labor and the parts together, with the $89 service call built in rather than waiting underneath. Arrive between 8pm and midnight and the figure carries $55, between midnight and 7am $95, and you learn that while you are still deciding. A jamb softer than it looked, a hinge screw stripped by somebody years ago, a strike mortise cut in the wrong place at the factory: none of it reopens the arithmetic.
On a community gate, the question of who may order the work comes first. A fob, a remote or a key for your own house is yours to order and yours to pay for. Anything on a shared entrance, an entry gate, a pool door or a mail enclosure belongs to the association, and the board or the management company authorizes it, not the resident who happens to be standing at it. That gets asked on the phone rather than at the gate, so nobody drives out to a job that cannot legally start. Blackhawk and Crow Canyon Country Club both run this way, and so do the smaller gated streets.
Ninety days, which here reaches into the next change of season. Ninety days on the work, and the warranty follows the carpentry as much as the lock. A relocated strike and a shimmed hinge are workmanship like anything else, so a door that closed cleanly in spring and starts catching again inside that window brings the van back at no charge. Parts carry the maker's own term. Everything is itemized on a receipt that lands in your email, and an owner, a manager or an insurer can be sent a written description whenever one is asked for.

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Describe the problem on the call. The price gets named either way.

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Tell us whether the door has to be pushed before it locks, and the call is short

Danville and the San Ramon Valley, at any hour. The condition of the door sets the work and the work sets the price, so you get one number on the phone with the $89 service call and the hour already inside it, and that number is what the receipt shows. Ninety days on the labor, in writing, covering the frame as well as the lock.

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