Motorcycle Keys in Daly City
$125 to $289. Bikes and scooters, the blade cut to the lock code and the chip coded where the machine is parked.
$125–$289
Typical price
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A bike cannot be pushed home and a tow means a trailer, so losing the only key to one feels worse than losing a car key. It also does not need a trailer. The blade is cut and the chip is written where the machine stands, which here is usually a driveway on a 25-foot lot, a carport behind a converted garage unit, a space at a BART lot, or a turnout on Skyline after a ride.
Ownership comes before anything else, because a bike can be wheeled away by one person on foot. ID against the registration or the title. Then the ignition or the seat lock is read for its code and a blade is cut at the van. Bikes generally leave the factory with one key running every lock, so the new blade is tried in the ignition, the fuel cap, the seat and the helmet lock in turn, and any lock that has been changed over the years is noted so you know before the road tells you.
The fork lock gets several turns of its own, last and deliberately, because it binds first on a blade cut a hair shallow. If it is at all tight the cut is corrected on the spot rather than left for you to find out about in a parking garage.
Weather is a real factor on a bike here in a way it is not on a car. There is no bodywork over an ignition barrel, the fog rolls in most nights, and the open water is about a mile off, so a bike parked outside on these streets takes salt directly on its locks. A key that has started to feel gritty in a bike lock is a much shorter warning than the same feeling on a house door, and it is worth saying on the call so the right parts are on board.
Motorcycle keys are $125 to $289 with the $89 call-out inside it. A plain mechanical key for an older machine or a scooter is $125. A transponder key, or an immobilizer bike with no key at all where the module has to be read, reaches $289. Between 8pm and midnight the $125 key is $175, and between midnight and 7am it is $215. An ignition damaged past reading is quoted as its own line before any panel comes off.
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.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$50
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$90
FAQ
Motorcycle Keys: quick answers
My last bike key is gone. Does the machine have to go anywhere?+
No. The code is read from the ignition or the seat lock where the machine is parked, a blade is cut at the van, and any chip is written beside the bike. All keys lost sits higher in the range because it is more work, but nothing has to be moved.
The bike lives outside and the key has gone gritty in the ignition.+
Take that seriously sooner than you would on a house door. A bike barrel has nothing sheltering it from the fog, and out here they are among the fastest-failing locks anywhere. Mention it on the call, because the choice is often between cleaning and rebuilding the barrel now and having no way in at all in a month.
Somebody forced the ignition and now nothing turns.+
A forced barrel usually has broken wafers inside and gives up no code, so the lock has to come off the machine. If the housing is sound the cylinder is rebuilt to your existing key. If it is not, a new one goes in keyed to the seat and the fuel cap so the bike stays on one key. That figure is given before a panel comes off.
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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.