Re: Ordering Keys from code number?

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In a message dated 7/27/98 5:35:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com writes:

<< . this does not solve my
 problem, as I'd like to be able to have a valet key ...
 
 I did not get the key code tag with the car, but when I pulled the trunk
 lock cylinder I noticed that the key code was stamped into it ...
 
 TIA!
 Steve Buchholz >>

Steve, yes you could simply have key made accoring to the code, but most
dealers don't like to do this.  But honestly, it would be no problem to make a
valet key from the original.  After all, the cutting of the key is the same,
it is merely that the Valet (assuming old style (ie. pre '96?) has a grove
with raised area between two flat-lengthwise cuts that the non -Valet key does
not have.  The dealer certainly should have valet key blanks.  I hope I
expressed this correctly, as I'm not a locksmith.  Maybe this will help:

Normal Key as seen lying flat and if you were the lock!

XXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
     XXXXXXXXXXXX
           XXXXXXXXX

Valet Key:

XXXXXXXXXX   X
XXXXXXXXXXXXX
    XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    X   XXXXXXXXXXX

HTH

-Ingo Rautenberg
90 V8 202,000 miles
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