Motorcycle Keys in Martinez
$119 to $275. Bikes and scooters. The blade is read off the lock and cut on the spot, the chip is written beside the machine, and the seat, the fork lock and the fuel cap all get tried before the case closes.
$119–$275
Typical price
18 min
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The only key to a bike going missing is worse than the same thing happening to a car, because nobody pushes a motorcycle home and a tow means finding a trailer. It also does not call for one. Blade and chip are both done where the machine is standing, whether that is a carport behind a rental near the station, a space at the marina, a driveway in Morello Park, or a turnout on Alhambra Valley Road at the end of a Sunday ride.
Proving the machine is yours happens first and it happens every time, for the obvious reason that a single person can walk a bike off a driveway. Your identification goes against the registration or the title. Only then does a lock get read for its code, and the blade is cut at the curb. Factories tend to ship a bike on one key across the whole machine, so the new blade goes into the ignition, then the cap, then the seat, then the helmet lock, and anything that has been replaced at some point in the bike's life gets noted down there and then instead of announcing itself two hundred miles from home.
Last of all, and on purpose, comes the fork lock. Cut a blade even slightly shallow and the fork lock is where it will catch, long before the ignition complains, which makes it the one test worth trusting. A blade that struggles there gets taken back to the machine and corrected on the spot, not sent away to be discovered by you somewhere inconvenient.
Where a bike runs an immobilizer, the chip is written to the module standing beside the machine, and every system in common use is dealt with at the curb. Scooter locks tend to read quickly, though one detail catches people out: a fair number of models put a magnetic shutter over the ignition, and that shutter takes a separate key of its own. It is priced on its own line during the call rather than appearing at the end.
For an older machine or a scooter, a straightforward mechanical key is $129. The published range is $119 to $275 and the $89 call-out is counted inside it. What reaches the top is a transponder key, or an immobilizer machine with nothing left to copy from where the module has to be read directly. Evening carries $45, overnight $85, and both are folded in before a figure reaches you. If the ignition is too damaged to read, that is priced separately and told to you before any panel is disturbed.
Sixteen jobs, fourteen of them with a range and two quoted once the openings have been counted on site. What moves a figure inside its range here is what is actually in the door: a cast mortise case that comes apart, cleans up and goes back in takes the low end, while a case seized with a century of paint, or one that has to be replaced because a part inside it is broken beyond repair, takes the high one. Say what the key does when you turn it, and the range closes to a single number on the call.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$45
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$85
FAQ
Motorcycle Keys: quick answers
There is no key left for the bike at all. Does it have to be moved?+
It does not. A lock on the machine gives up its code where the bike is standing, the blade is cut at the curb and any chip is written alongside it. Losing every key does put the job further up the range, simply because there is more in it, but the bike itself never leaves the spot.
Someone put a screwdriver into the ignition and now it turns nothing.+
Wafers do not survive a screwdriver, and without intact wafers there is no code to read, so that lock has to come off the bike before anything can happen. Where the housing survived, the cylinder is rebuilt around the key you still hold. Where it did not, a replacement goes in and is cut to match the seat and the cap, so you are not left running two keys. You have that figure before a panel is disturbed.
Mine is a scooter I use for short runs. Same job?+
The same job, and scooter locks generally give up a code faster than a full-size machine will. The thing to look for is the magnetic shutter sitting over the ignition on a number of models, which needs a key of its own and carries its own price. Where a machine is electric and locks purely through an app, that belongs to another trade, and you are told so during the call rather than after somebody has driven out for nothing.
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Say whether the key meets a keyhole or a cylinder, and the rest of the call is quick
Martinez and the towns around the strait, around the clock. What sits in the edge of the leaf decides the work and the work decides the number, which is settled on the phone with the $89 visit and any late hour already inside it. It reads the same on the receipt. Ninety days on the labor, a rebuilt bronze case covered the same as a new lock.