24/7 · van ~18 min out

Daly City and the north Peninsula · 24/7

Automotive Locksmith in Daly City

The garage under the house holds one car, so the second one lives at the curb on a 25-foot frontage in the damp, and that is where a fair share of this work happens. The rest is in the lots: 2,068 spaces at Daly City BART, 2,238 at Colma, forty acres of parking at the Westlake center and the ground around 860,000 square feet of Serramonte. Blade keys, proximity fobs, transponders and ignitions are all handled where the vehicle stands rather than behind a tow truck. Ownership is settled first — license, registration, plate, all three agreeing — and only then does a blank go into the cutter. Nothing gets packed up until the engine has fired twice on the new key and both doors answer it, and a key that has gone missing is dropped out of the car's memory when you ask for that.

from $95

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18 min

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24/7

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Automotive Locksmith by Hageman in Daly City

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Automotive services and their price ranges

Sixteen jobs, fourteen of them with a range and two quoted once the openings have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range here is which door you mean and what the salt has done to it: a cylinder still turning cleanly takes the low end, a plug pitted by years of fog takes the high one. Say which door and how the key feels, and the range closes to a single number on the call.

Car Key Replacement

$155–$419

$155 to $419. Blade or proximity key cut and coded against the car where it is parked, with a spare made in the same session even when the last key is gone. License, registration and plate are read against each other before the machine is switched on.

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Key Fob Programming

$95–$199

$95 to $199. A remote or proximity fob paired without the car going anywhere, and the old one either kept as a spare or dropped from the vehicle memory, whichever you want.

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Ignition Repair

$185–$459

$185 to $459. A cylinder that will not turn, or turns and leaves the dash dead, rebuilt or swapped at the curb and pinned to the door key you already carry wherever the make allows it.

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Motorcycle Keys

$125–$289

$125 to $289. Bikes and scooters, the blade cut to the lock code and the chip coded where the machine is parked.

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The Door at the Pavement

Four things that hold the same way on a garage door in Westlake, a hallway door in Serramonte, a shop front on Mission Street and a converted garage with its own tenants. Ninety days on the labor, written on the receipt instead of implied.

The lower door is priced as the door you actually use. On a split-level built to the Westlake plan the front door is ceremonial. The car goes in at street level, the household walks up into the house from inside the garage, and that lower door is opened four and five times a day for sixty years while the one at the top of the steps waits for visitors. Wear follows use, so the tired cylinder, the loose knob, the latch that has to be lifted are all down at the pavement. Say which door on the call and the whole conversation gets shorter. If only one lock in the house is going to be replaced this year, it is that one.
One number, with the hour already in it. The figure covers the visit, the labor and the parts, and the $89 call-out is part of it rather than a second line underneath. A van arriving between 8pm and midnight carries $50, and between midnight and 7am $90, and you hear either one while you are still on the phone. What turns up behind the escutcheon does not reopen the arithmetic: a cylinder older than the paperwork claimed, a strike screwed into trim, a slab that has swollen half an inch since the last dry week.
A mile from the ocean the finish is named out loud. Fog and wind come off the water all year, and the lower door meets them head on every time the garage goes up. Chloride settles in the keyway and works on the pins, the springs and the walls of the plug, so the first sign is not failure but a key that needs a lift and a wiggle. The honest answer at that point is not more lubricant. It is knowing which part is going back on the door: a satin chrome deadbolt, BHMA 626, is finished for an interior door and is sold for outside ones every day of the week. On this side of the hill the part worth fitting is 630, stainless. That gets said with the old lock still in your hand.
A garage that became a flat gets its own key plan. The city allows the space under the house to be turned into a separate home and does not ask for parking back in exchange, which turns the lower door into a second front door with its own tenants and its own turnover. That needs deciding rather than improvising: a deadbolt on the unit that the household key does not open, one key for the owner that opens both if that is what you want, and a written note of which key opens what so the next change of tenant is one cylinder and not an afternoon. Ninety days on the labor either way, and the part carries the maker's own term.

Not sure which one you need?

Describe the problem on the call. The price gets named either way.

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Open 24 hours, 7 days

Say which door you are standing at and the call gets short

Daly City and the north Peninsula, every hour of the day. The door decides the work and the work decides the number, so the figure comes back on the call with the $89 call-out and the hour already inside it, and it is the figure on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.

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