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Q: What kind of key does the 1998 Chrysler Cirrus use?

It's a metal key, full stop. No remote, no fob, no battery to replace. The key blade is cut to your specific vehicle and operates the ignition, door locks, and trunk directly. There's nothing to program and no electronic pairing involved. Replacement is a cutting job: a locksmith either uses your VIN to look up the key code or decodes one of your lock cylinders to determine the correct cut, then produces a new key on the spot.

Q: Why does key replacement at the dealer seem so complicated for an older Chrysler?

Dealer service departments are built around newer vehicles. For a car from the late 1990s, the key blank may not be sitting on a shelf, the service advisor may not be familiar with the process, and the whole thing gets treated like a bigger job than it is. On a 1998 Cirrus with a mechanical key, replacement is simple. The delay at a dealer comes from parts sourcing and scheduling, not from anything technical about the car itself.

Q: Can I get a key made for my 1998 Cirrus if I have zero working keys?

Yes, and it's one of the more common calls I get on vehicles this age. All-keys-lost on a mechanical key car is not the same headache it is on a modern push-button vehicle. Two paths: if your VIN traces to a key code on file, I can cut directly to that code. If that record isn't available or doesn't match what's in the car, I decode the lock cylinder itself to read the cut pattern.

Q: My key turns hard in the ignition. Do I need a new key or a new cylinder?

Try the key in the door lock first. If it turns hard there too, the key is probably worn. A fresh cut to the correct specification usually fixes it. If the door lock turns fine but the ignition is stiff, the cylinder itself may be worn or have debris in it. On a car this age, both are common. I can tell the difference on site and cut or service accordingly.

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I got a call from a guy set up at a swap meet field off the main drag in Chula Vista, out near the Winding Walk area. He was selling auto parts on weekends and his only key to his 1998 Chrysler Cirrus had snapped off in the door lock. Half in the cylinder, half in his hand.

He'd already called a dealer. They told him to tow it in, said they'd need to look at the cylinder, and gave him an appointment four days out. He wasn't towing a car that still ran fine just because the key broke. That's not a tow situation. That's a locksmith situation.

I drove out that evening with my extraction tools and a key cutting setup. Got the broken piece out of the door cylinder without pulling the whole lock. Then I decoded the cylinder to get the cut depth, ran the blade on site, and tested it in the door and the ignition both.

He was back to packing up his tables in under an hour. Paid a fraction of what the dealer visit would have run, and the car never left the field.

Sometimes the job sounds complicated because people expect it to be. A snapped key on a late-90s Chrysler is just a cut and an extraction. Nothing more than that.

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How long does a Chrysler dealer take for a key replacement on a car like this?▼

On a 1998 Cirrus with a mechanical key, the actual cutting takes minutes. But dealers don't always keep key blanks for vehicles this age in stock, and if they need to order one, you're waiting on parts before anything else happens. Then it has to slot into the service queue. I cut it on site. No parts order, no appointment backlog.