2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County

2004 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Metal Key Replacement - Fast, Affordable & Professional

Got a call from a guy at his apartment complex right near Downtown Moorpark. He'd lost his only key to a 2004 Monte Carlo and called the dealer first, which I get, that's the instinct. They told him the car had to be towed in. He was already mentally doing the math on a tow bill plus whatever the key cost, and it was adding up fast.

I told him to skip the tow. This is a mechanical key job. I come to the car, not the other way around.

Pulled up to his building about twenty minutes later. Used my lock decoder on the door cylinder, read each wafer, wrote down the cuts, and had a blade machined and tested inside of half an hour. Key went in, turned smooth, car started.

He asked me twice if that was really it. No programming, no waiting on a parts order, no tow. Just a correctly cut key made on site.

What he saved compared to the dealer route, tow included, was significant. But honestly the bigger win was that his afternoon didn't turn into a half-day ordeal.

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