San Mateo County
The key went in the water. Now what?
Linda Mar, Rockaway, Sharp Park: every beach in Pacifica has a parking lot, and every parking lot has had someone standing next to a locked car with wet hair and no key. We know the lots, we know the drive over the hill, and the new key gets made beside your car.
A surf key, so this never happens again
Here is the thing Pacifica surfers ask us for more than anything else: a plain metal key, cut to the door lock, with no chip inside. It opens the door and nothing more, so it cannot start the car. It goes in the wetsuit; the real key stays locked in the car. It costs a fraction of a replacement fob, and it takes a few minutes beside your car. If you surf here regularly and do not have one, call us next time you are at the lot.
When the real key is already gone, we do the full job: read the car, cut a blade to the door lock, program a new key or fob, test everything, for most makes, even with no key left.
Houses in the fog
Pacifica is wetter and saltier than almost anywhere else we work, and house locks suffer for it. Front doors, garage side doors and gates corrode from the inside out, and the first sign is a key that needs a push. We replace those with hardware that survives the coast, and we open the door without damage when the lock has already given up.
Lockouts in the fog, lost keys on the trail, a rekey after a move: the ordinary jobs happen here too, and the van comes over the hill for all of them.
What people in Pacifica call us for
Car keys and fobs
Keys and fobs made at the beach lot; door-only surf keys.
Car lockout
Keys locked in the car at Linda Mar, Rockaway and Sharp Park.
House and apartment lockout
Home and garage door lockouts, opened without damage.
Lock change and rekey
Salt-corroded locks replaced with hardware that lasts.
How the price works
A surf key is priced like a simple metal key. A full replacement depends on the make, model and key type. Both are said before we start.
Free on-site estimate on most jobs, and the final price is said before any work starts. You can still say no.
Questions from Pacifica
How much is a surf key?
Can you come to the Linda Mar lot?
Does the chip key still work if it got wet?
My front door lock is stiff. Is it the salt?
At a Pacifica beach with no key?
Stay with the car. Call, and we come to the lot.