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Nottingham & Nottinghamshire
Keys made, locks opened, no main dealer.
Lost every key to a 2019 Golf? A dealer will quote you four hundred pounds and a week without the car. We cut and program a replacement where the car is, usually inside ninety minutes.
Typical replacement key prices: Fiesta £145, Golf £165, Corsa £145, Transit £175, Astra £150, Focus £155, Qashqai £170, Audi A3 £195, BMW 1 Series £220, Sprinter £185, Yaris £150, Mercedes C-Class £240. Your registration gives the exact figure.
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9 yrsCutting and coding keys in Nottingham
Why people ring us instead
A dealer bills the recovery too
A main dealer cannot come to you, so a lost key means a flatbed to the garage on top of the key itself. That is where the four hundred pounds comes from, and it is the part nobody mentions on the phone.
We come to the car
Roadside, driveway, work car park or a supermarket. No recovery, no waiting for a slot at a garage.
Opened, not forced
Non-destructive entry is the whole trade. We pick or decode the lock rather than drill it, and the car leaves as it arrived.
Priced before we move
Your registration tells us the key type and the equipment needed. You get a figure on the phone, not an estimate on the driveway.
Old keys deleted
Every lost key is wiped from the immobiliser as part of the job, so a key that turns up later will not start the car.
Two different jobs
Locked out, or lost your keys?
People ring us with both and assume they are the same call. They are not: one is priced by how fast we can get to you, the other by what your car needs programming. Working out which you have takes about ten seconds.
Emergency lockoutKeys locked in, snapped, or gone entirely
Not sure which applies to you? Ring and say what happened. Two questions usually settles it, and we will tell you if the cheaper option is the right one.
What we do
Six things, all done where the car is
Everything below happens at your vehicle unless the model genuinely needs to be at the unit — and we will tell you which before you book, not after we arrive.
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Emergency
Emergency lockout
Opened without drilling, usually inside forty minutes. Keys locked in, snapped or gone.
Your registration tells us the key type, the security system and the equipment the job needs. That is the price, whether we are with you in forty minutes or on Tuesday morning.
No call-out fee on top of the quoted figure
If we cannot do your model, we say so first
You start the car before you pay
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Registration, postcode and what has happened. Redirects to the thank-you page on submit.
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Key price checker
What does your key cost?
Registration and what has happened. You will see which key your car takes, what it costs and how
soon somebody can be with you — before you ring anyone.
On our price list
£145
Cut, programmed and tested at the vehicle
Your vehicle
Ford Fiesta
Petrol · 2010 · takes a remote blade key
How soon
Same day
Usually within two hours across Nottingham
Every lost key is deleted from the car, and you start it yourself before you pay.
Vehicle details come from the DVSA record. Contains public sector information licensed under the
Open Government Licence v3.0.
Those two tell us the key type, the security system and how far we are coming. Together they are the price.
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Before we move
A figure, not an estimate
Quoted on the phone. If we cannot do your model we say so then, rather than turning up and charging you for the trip.
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At the car
Ownership checked first
Photo ID against the V5C before anything is opened. Anyone who skips that step is a problem, not a bargain.
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Before you pay
Cut, coded and tested
Key cut, programmed, lost keys deleted, and you start the car yourself before any money changes hands.
What it costs
Priced by what your car needs
A 2004 Corsa and a 2022 Range Rover are different jobs, so the figure comes from your registration rather than a menu. These are the bands almost everything falls into.
Lockout only
You still have a key, it is just on the wrong side of the glass.
Premium and keyless models cost more, and we will say so on the phone. Some Range Rover, Mercedes and BMW systems need extra equipment or the car at the unit — that is a different figure, and you will hear it before we set off rather than on the driveway.
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Fleets and forecourts
Keys logged against the registration
A van off the road because a driver lost the only key costs more in a morning than a spare set costs for the year. We batch fleet work, log every key against its reg, and invoice monthly.
Most of our reviews are typed on a phone within an hour of somebody getting back into their car, which is about as honest as feedback gets.
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The live feed mounts here. No review on this site is written by hand, which is why this is a slot and not a row of quotation marks.
★★★★★
Locked out at Tesco at ten at night. Rob was there in thirty minutes.
Hayley PriceBeeston · lockout★★★★★
Spare key for the Focus for less than half the dealer price.
Darren PlattArnold · spare key★★★★★
Lost both keys to the van. Cut and programmed on the drive.
Steve MoranHucknall · all keys lost
Asked at the roadside
The questions we get most
Usually asked while somebody is standing next to a car they cannot get into. If yours is not here, ring and ask — it costs nothing and we would rather answer it now.
No. Non-destructive entry is the whole trade — we open the lock rather than force it, and drilling is a last resort we have not needed in years.
If a lock genuinely cannot be opened without damage, we stop and tell you what the alternative costs before doing anything.
How do you know the car is mine?
We check before anything is opened. Photo ID matching the V5C, or the V5C plus something linking you to the address, and we record what we saw.
Anyone who does not ask you for that is a problem, not a bargain.
Can you make a key with no key at all?
Yes. That is the most common job we do. We read the lock or the vehicle's data, cut a key to match and program it to the immobiliser.
It takes longer than copying an existing key, which is why a spare booked in advance is always cheaper than a replacement in an emergency.
Are you cheaper than a main dealer?
Almost always, and usually by a lot, because a dealer bills recovery to the garage as well as the key. We come to the car instead.
There are exceptions. A handful of very new premium models are genuinely dealer-only, and we will tell you that on the phone rather than charge you to find out.
What if my old keys are still out there?
They get deleted from the immobiliser as part of the job. Once that is done a lost key will not start the car even if somebody finds it.
If you have been broken into rather than just misplaced them, say so when you ring. It changes what we recommend.
Where we go
Nottingham and out across the county
The van covers everywhere below and the price does not change with distance inside it. Your postcode decides how quickly we arrive, not what you pay.
Ring and say what has happened. Two questions usually settles whether it is a lockout or a key job, and you get the figure before anyone gets in a van.
