San Mateo County
Keys dropped in the water, locked in the truck, lost on a shift
South City works around the clock: the port, the warehouses east of 101, the biotech campuses, and the hotels along the airport. A lot of our calls here come from someone at work, not at home, with a key problem that is stopping their shift.
The waterfront and the warehouses
Keys go into the bay. Off a dock, out of a pocket on a boat, into a drain in a yard. When it happens to a worker at the port or a warehouse off Grand Avenue, we come to the gate and make a new key at the vehicle, for most makes, including when the only key is now at the bottom of the water.
Lockouts are the other call: keys locked in a work truck at the start of a shift, or in a car in a biotech campus garage. We open with proper tools and get the day moving again.
The hotel strip, and the neighborhoods
The hotels between South City and the airport bring us travelers who locked a rental, lost a key between the terminal and the lot, or came back from a trip to a car that will not start. We make keys in the hotel lot and the long-term parking lots, with the registration or rental paperwork as proof.
On the residential side, South City is rekeys when a house changes hands, bedroom lockouts in shared homes, and the occasional safe that forgot its combination. All handled by the same van, with the same rule: price at the door, before work.
What people in South San Francisco call us for
Car lockout
Work trucks and cars opened at the port, warehouses and hotel lots.
Car keys and fobs
Keys made at the gate when the original went into the water or got lost on a shift.
Lock change and rekey
Home rekeys when a house sells or a tenant changes.
House and apartment lockout
Bedroom and front door lockouts.
Safes, mailboxes and storage
Safes opened and reset; storage units opened with proof.
How the price works
A key made at a work site is priced like any car key, by make and key type. We can give a range on the phone before the van leaves.
Free on-site estimate on most jobs, and the final price is said before any work starts. You can still say no.
Questions from South City
I'm at the port and my key went into the water. Can you come to the gate?
I locked my key in a rental at an airport hotel. Do you need anything?
The van is registered to the company, not me. Is that a problem?
Do you do houses in South City too?
Key problem in South City, at work or at home?
Call. We come to the gate, the lot or the door.