I lost my car keys

[FeuerFrei]

IF I were buying a car with expensive-ass keys, I'd try to work in an extra key set into the deal. Even if it came w/ two.

 

[Craig234]

Update?

Update: keys not found, new ones made at the dealer Friday. They tried to jack up the price (to $287) repeatedly.

 

[Craig234]

<- harsh

And ignored.

 

[Craig234]

Off topic, but yes! Ol' Ben was really a terrific guy (family to me so I've always been keenly interested).

Check out his orgies in Europe sometime.

 

[AdamK47]

Update: keys not found, new ones made at the dealer Friday. They tried to jack up the price (to $287) repeatedly.

I would think making a new ignition key for a 1984 Olds Delta 88 would be pretty cheap. I guess not.

 

[snoopy7548]

You should have just hotwired your car, and you could use one of those big metal rulers to pick the door lock. Chicks love it.

 

[WilliamM2]

Update: keys not found, new ones made at the dealer Friday. They tried to jack up the price (to $287) repeatedly.

How much for two new keys?

 

[Craig234]

How much for two new keys?

Kept them down to $122 ($75 to get the code, $38 for the ignition key)

 

[destrekor]

Now that you've gone and did that, I predict you find them a few weeks from now, or tomorrow.

 

[Muse]

One key? It was an accident bleeding waiting to happen.

"If others had not made mistakes before us, we would make them." I kinda think that William Blake said that although it isn't exactly characteristic of his style. Actually, a google search is not turning that up except in my saying it so maybe I should take credit at this point...

 

[Pick2]

With our last three new cars , I walked ( drove ) away from the dealer with an extra free spare key in my wallet. I don't leave home without it.

 

[Craig234]

Yesterday, I parked at BART and spent the day in San Francisco. When I returned to my car, I didn't have my keys. Not again. I knew I locked the car and had done what I almost never do, tested the new key in the door to make sure it unlocked, so they weren't in the car.

Checked my pockets again, nope. Could they have fallen our of my pocket at some point? I wasn't about to want to post here another set was lost.

Then I saw, I'd left them sitting in the car door the whole day, lucky no one had taken advantage.

 

[snoopy7548]

Maybe your old keys are in the car door?

 

[Craig234]

Maybe your old keys are in the car door?

Good point - there they are. How did they sit there invisible and allowing my new ones to also be there? Whew.

 

[AdamK47]

Good point - there they are. How did they sit there invisible and allowing my new ones to also be there? Whew.

It is a common problem on that generation of the Olds Delta 88.

This whole mess could have been avoided if you had let us know what car it was in the first place.

 

[Craig234]

You didn't even ask the key issue - the color of the car.

 

[AdamK47]

You didn't even ask the key issue - the color of the car.

You're right. That would be important information. I just automatically assumed it was a metallic brown variation.

 

[snoopy7548]

Good point - there they are. How did they sit there invisible and allowing my new ones to also be there? Whew.

See? Always in the last place you look.

 

[Muse]

Good point - there they are. How did they sit there invisible and allowing my new ones to also be there? Whew.

Forgive me, I do not understand. Two sets of keys sitting in the same external door lock simultaneously? Please make this understandable.

 

[Craig234]

Forgive me, I do not understand. Two sets of keys sitting in the same external door lock simultaneously? Please make this understandable.

My post and the post it responded to (hopefully) were facetious. My keys have not been found, were not invisible nor sitting in the same place as the new keys.

 

[AdamK47]

Forgive me, I do not understand. Two sets of keys sitting in the same external door lock simultaneously? Please make this understandable.

For that year of the Olds Delta 88 there was a sensor that would trigger the removal of the key from a door lock if it sat in the lock for more than 5 minutes. There is an actuator in the locking mechanism that causes the entire key tumbler to retract a few inches into the door frame. Another actuator inside the tumbler pushes the key out. The key falls to the bottom of the door frame into a compartment. That compartment has a hidden opening on the inside bottom of the door.

 

[destrekor]

For that year of the Olds Delta 88 there was a sensor that would trigger the removal of the key from a door lock if it sat in the lock for more than 5 minutes. There is an actuator in the locking mechanism that causes the entire key tumbler to retract a few inches into the door frame. Another actuator inside the tumbler pushes the key out. The key falls to the bottom of the door frame into a compartment. That compartment has a hidden opening on the inside bottom of the door.

wait, wut?

 

[Craig234]

Update: I found them.

Unfortunately, it's pretty anti-climactic and hard to describe.

Short version: they were in the limited area I'd said they pretty much had to be in, in an area I had searched repeatedly.

It was the restroom. I have a package a few inches wide and some junk around it and guess it hadn't looked like the keys could be under it, but they were. A picture might make it clearer, I'll consider it.

It was just a freakily hard to find case that's not very satisfying, frustrating when you thought you had looked carefully. Of course they were there nearly 2 months before I found them, inches away daily.

 

[shortylickens]

It was the restroom. I have a package a few inches wide and some junk around it and guess it hadn't looked like the keys could be under it, but they were. A picture might make it clearer, I'll consider it.

 

[Muse]

Uh, yeah. Couldn't possibly be there but they were. That's why you really have to "pick up every stitch." You just found out why. I've never been burned that bad, though. There are some things I've lost in my house I've yet to find and suppose I will one day. I found one not long ago that was lost for over ten years. Oh, wow, I put it there! OMG!!

Sometimes I notice where I put something before I even miss it and think to myself, lucky I found it. One day I would have gone nuts looking for it, I'd never think to look there for it!

Best to not put things where they don't belong or at least not think to look for them. Of course, occasionally (like probably just happened to you) something will accidentally get in a place you'd never think to look for it!!! That's ALWAYS possible.