Motorcycle Keys in Danville
$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.
$135–$315
Typical price
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Losing the only key to a bike is worse than losing a car key, because you cannot push a motorcycle home and towing one means finding a trailer. It also requires neither. The blade is cut and the chip is written wherever the machine is standing, whether that is a driveway, a space near the shops in the old center, a trailhead lot, or a turnout on a Sunday after a run up toward Mount Diablo.
Ownership is checked first, because one person can wheel a bike away. ID against the registration or the title, then the work begins. The ignition or the seat lock is read for its code and a blade is cut at the van. Bikes generally leave the factory on one key for every lock, so the new blade is tried in the ignition, the fuel cap, the seat and the helmet lock in turn, and any lock that has been changed over the years is written down, so you find out in the driveway instead of at the far end of a ride.
The fork lock is turned several times, last and on purpose. It is the first thing to bind on a blade cut a fraction shallow, which makes it the honest test of the cut. A shallow blade gets corrected there and then rather than left for you to discover on a shoulder somewhere.
Immobilizer bikes need their chip enrolled with the module beside the machine, and the common systems are handled at the curb. Small scooters read quickly, with one thing to watch for: a number of models carry a magnetic shutter over the ignition that takes a separate key of its own, and that goes on the call as its own line rather than appearing afterward.
Motorcycle keys run $135 to $315 with the $89 call-out already inside. A plain mechanical key for an older machine or a scooter sits at the bottom. A transponder key, or an immobilizer bike with no key at all where the module has to be read, reaches the top. Evening puts $55 inside the number for $190 and overnight puts $95 inside it for $230, both counted before you hear a figure. An ignition too damaged to read is quoted as its own line before a panel comes off.
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.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$55
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$95
FAQ
Motorcycle Keys: quick answers
The last key to the bike is gone. Does it have to go on a truck?+
No. The code comes off the ignition or the seat lock where the bike is parked, the blade is cut at the van, and any chip is written next to the machine. All keys lost sits higher in the range because there is more to do, but nothing has to be moved.
Somebody put a screwdriver in the ignition and now it will not move.+
A screwdriver shears the wafers, and sheared wafers give up no code, so the lock has to come off the bike. With a sound housing the cylinder is rebuilt to the key you already carry. Without one, a new cylinder goes in and gets keyed to the seat and fuel cap so the machine stays on a single key. That figure is given before a panel is removed.
And a scooter that only ever goes a few blocks?+
The same way as a small motorcycle, and scooter locks generally read fast. The thing to check is the magnetic shutter over the ignition that a number of models carry, because it takes its own key and is quoted separately. A scooter that only locks through an app belongs to another trade, and you hear that on the phone rather than after a wasted trip.
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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.