24/7 · van ~17 min out

Cupertino and the west valley · 24/7

Automotive Locksmith in Cupertino

Most of the cars on these streets answer to a proximity fob rather than a blade, and a large share are hybrids and EVs whose key is mostly software with some metal attached. The van carries the programmers for them. Work happens where the vehicle stands: a driveway on a cul-de-sac, a parking deck off Stevens Creek, a De Anza College lot, the curb outside a rental on the Garden Gate grid, a carport behind an apartment court. Photo ID and the registration are matched against the plate before a blank goes near the machine. Nothing is packed away until the engine has started twice on the new key and the doors lock and unlock with it, and a lost key is dropped out of the vehicle memory whenever you ask for that.

from $95

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17 min

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24/7

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Automotive Locksmith by Orchard Gate in Cupertino

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Automotive services and their price ranges

All sixteen jobs are printed here, fourteen with ranges and two quoted once the doors have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range is the door, not the lock: a leaf that still hangs true takes the low end, a leaf that has dropped on its hinges or carries a narrower old bore takes the high one. Describe the door on the call and the range closes to one figure.

Car Key Replacement

$159–$429

$159 to $429. Blade or proximity key cut and coded against the vehicle where it stands, with a spare done in the same session even when the last key has gone missing. The registration is read against the plate before the machine is switched on.

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Key Fob Programming

$95–$205

$95 to $205. A remote or proximity fob paired without the car going anywhere, and the old one either kept as a spare or dropped from the vehicle memory, whichever you want.

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Ignition Repair

$189–$469

$189 to $469. A cylinder that will not turn, or turns and leaves the dash dead, rebuilt or swapped at the curb and pinned to the door key you already carry wherever the make allows it.

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Motorcycle Keys

$129–$295

$129 to $295. Bikes and scooters, the blade cut to the lock code and the chip coded where the machine stands.

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On every job

The Door First

Four things that hold the same way on a 1951 house on the Rinconada grid, an atrium gate in Fairgrove, a keypad on a rebuild off Bubb Road and a glass shop door on Stevens Creek. Ninety days on the labor, printed on the receipt rather than implied.

The door is made right before the lock goes on, in the same visit. A new deadbolt does not fit an old door simply by arriving. On the houses here the bore is usually narrower than the 2 1/8 inches a modern lock is machined for, the backset is off by a quarter inch, and sixty years of hinge sag mean the bolt no longer meets the hole in the frame. That part is carpentry, and it happens before anything is screwed down: the bore opened true, the backset corrected, the hinges shimmed, the strike moved and its mortise recut. Then the lock. A lock hanging on a door that cannot hold it is not a finished job.
One figure, with the hour already counted into it. The number covers the visit, the labor and the parts, and the $89 service call sits inside it rather than underneath it. A van arriving between 8pm and midnight carries $55, and between midnight and 7am $95, both named on the call instead of at the door. A cylinder older than the paperwork said, a strike screwed into trim instead of framing, a keypad with flat cells: none of those reopen the arithmetic.
On a keypad lock the spread is the door, not the brand. Smart Lock Installation runs $199 to $495, and that range is wide on purpose. What moves you inside it is the leaf in front of you. A door still hanging true sits at the bottom of it. A door that has dropped on its hinges costs the time it takes to bring it back to square. A door with a narrow 1950s bore costs the work of opening it to size without splitting the stile. The make of lock barely moves the figure. Say the year the house was built and the range closes to one number.
A metal key is cut for every keypad we fit. Every keypad deadbolt has an override cylinder, and nearly all of them are sold with a blank that nobody ever takes to a machine. That is fine until the cells go flat at eleven at night in February. So the key is cut at the van the same day the lock goes on, tried in the cylinder while you watch, and you decide where it lives. Ninety days on the labor in writing, with the maker standing behind the part.

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Say the year the house was built, and the rest of the call is short

Cupertino and the west valley, every hour of the day. The age of the door decides the work and the work decides the figure, so the number comes back on the call with the $89 service call and the hour already inside it, and it is the number on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, in writing.

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