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Q: How fast can you get to my location in North Park?

Call us and we'll give you a straight arrival window based on where we are and what's on the schedule. North Park is well inside our regular San Diego service area, so we're usually not far. What I can tell you is that for a 1996 Caravan with a mechanical key, there's no waiting on parts to be ordered or a programming tool to connect. Once I arrive, the job moves fast.

Q: Can I get a replacement key made today?

Almost always, yes. The 1996 Caravan uses a standard mechanical key, which means I carry what I need to cut one in my service vehicle. No special blanks on back-order, no module pairing required. Same-day service is the normal outcome for this vehicle, not the exception.

Q: My key is worn down and sometimes doesn't turn smoothly. Can you still use it to make a copy, or do you need the original cuts to be sharp?

Worn keys are a real problem to copy directly. If the cuts are rounded off from years of use, duplicating that worn key just gives you two bad keys instead of one. The right move is to decode the lock cylinder or look up the key code for the vehicle and cut a fresh key to the original factory specification. That way you're not chasing an increasingly vague copy of a copy.

Q: I have the VIN. Can a key be made from that, or do you need to physically look at the lock?

The VIN can sometimes lead to a key code through the right channels, but it's not always a guaranteed lookup on a vehicle this age, and records aren't always complete. Decoding the lock in person is the reliable fallback. It takes a few extra minutes but it works regardless of whether the paper trail exists. Either way, I'm not guessing at cuts.

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I got a call from a general contractor working a job site in North Park, San Diego. Concrete pour scheduled for Monday morning, crew already there, and his key had snapped. Not bent, not worn. Snapped clean, with part of it still in the ignition cylinder.

He couldn't leave the site. Couldn't wait for a tow. The pour window doesn't hold for a key problem.

I showed up during a break in the schedule with my extraction tools and a blank. Got the broken piece out of the cylinder without pulling the column. Decoded the cuts right off the lock, ran the blade on my cutter, and handed him a working key before the next truck pulled in.

He started it up, verified the doors, and went back to work. He mentioned the dealer was his first call and they told him to bring it in, schedule a drop-off, and expect to wait. That wasn't going to happen on a pour day. The whole thing at the site took maybe twenty minutes.

No tow. No lost morning. Just a key that worked when he needed it.

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How long does a 1996 Dodge Caravan key replacement take?▼

For a mechanical key like this one, it's a short job. If I can decode your lock or if you have a key code available, cutting a replacement takes just a few minutes once I'm at the vehicle. Even if I need to decode the cylinder on-site from scratch, you're typically looking at fifteen to thirty minutes total. There's no programming step, no waiting on a tool to finish a sequence. It's cut, test, done.