2001 Kia RIO
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Got a call from a guy in the Samarkand neighborhood in Santa Barbara. His 2001 Kia Rio was parked on one of those narrow hillside streets near Cliff Drive, the kind where two cars can barely pass. He had one key left and it snapped off in the driver's door lock.
The broken bit was still jammed in the cylinder. The dealer told him to tow it in and they would order a new lock assembly, which could take over a week with parts shipping for a car this old. He just needed to drive to work the next morning.
I parked at the curb and walked up. First thing I did was extract the broken blade fragment from the door cylinder with a broken key extractor. Clean pull, no damage to the wafers. Then I used my KIA3 Lishi to decode the lock right there on the door, read every wafer depth, and cut a fresh KI01 blank on my machine in the van.
No transponder on this year Rio, so there is nothing to program. Cut the key, test the door, test the ignition, done. He turned it over and it fired right up.
He stood there holding the broken half of his old key like he was not sure what to do with it. I told him to keep it as a bookmark. He laughed and said that was the first useful thing anyone told him all day.
Whole job took about twenty minutes. A fraction of what the dealer route would have cost him in time alone.
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