1997 Ford Explorer
Key Replacement - Save vs Dealer in Ventura County
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1997 Ford Explorer
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I got a call from a guy up near Serra Cross Park, the overlook area above the city on the Grant Park side. He had parked his 1997 Explorer on one of those steep residential streets where parallel parking means one wheel is practically on the curb and the other is in the air. He had snapped his only key off in the ignition. Half the blade was in his hand. The other half was seated in the cylinder.
He had already tried a magnet. Then he tried a thin screwdriver. Then he called a friend who made it worse. By the time I got there, the broken piece was pushed deeper into the cylinder, not pulled out.
I carry extraction tools for exactly this. The break point mattered. It had snapped at the shoulder, which gave me just enough to work with. I extracted the blade piece, and once the cylinder was clear, I decoded the lock right there using the cylinder itself. Cut a fresh key to match. Tested it in the ignition, tested it in the door.
The whole thing took a little over half an hour on a street with a view of the whole Ventura coastline. He asked what the dealer would have charged. I told him a dealer would likely have suggested replacing the ignition cylinder, not extracting from it, and the tow alone would have cost him time he did not have.
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