Locksmith Destroyed My Key!

Wow... What a bummer. How could he reason the he should only be responsible for half the cost?? WTF?

Also, I did not realize that these key blanks were no longer made.

-Jim

 

Believe it or not I had Lowes (yes the hardware store) cut one for the 348 I had a couple years back... dude said uhhhhh unsure if it will work... Told him go ahead I will take the gamble...

Worked like a charm, think it was like $3.00 to cut it- lol

 

I had a key made by a small shop down the block for my Dino 246, just too lazy to drive to a bigger shop. thought if it doesn't work I can just throw it away. I walked back to my car and try to start the engine, it won't turn, so I tried to pull it out, but I couldn't. It got stuck! The locksmith came to help, he yank so hard it finally broke into half and left me in panic. the key assembly could cost thousands $$, if I could find one! the mechanic came to disassemble the lock, took it to a master locksmith, luckily he got it out.

 

Lets have the name and shop name .. Thats inanity Half the cost ? THat even pisses me off and its not my car . If everybody on here just calls him ONCE and tell him hes a MORON it will stop him from trashin someone elses key .. GOod luck

 

WTF! What a moron!
Something similar happened to me but with a wheel. I was so mad I invite the guy outside to fix our thing like old days. He said; that I was a "material person" since I own a Ferrari I though I'm better person that him. Do you beleive that crap. I told him that next time I will be back on a Toyota and still kickIng his ass.

 

N4S- The good news is ugly blanks are available for little money. $12 from Ricambi, even less from other sources (do a search). The bad news is the keys with the little chrome horses are really hard to find. If your is one of the cast ones with the cavallino emblem, also hard to find. There is a really pretty carbon fiber key that will work. If the shop offered to pay half, one of those is an option. http://www.ferraricarbon.com/

I had an extra blank (rubber with little chrome cavallino) provided to me by Boardwalk when I bought my car. Steel blank, so very hard to cut, and rough on locksmiths' tooling. I made a deal with a locksmith for $100 to cut it. Needless to say, he was very, very careful and it works perfectly.

Taz
Terry Phillips

 

Well there is another guy in here that I found while I was searching that had the uncut keys and he was gracious enough to sell me one. I can PM him and see if he wants to sell another one if he still has one. I just saw a picture he posted that had like 5 or 6 uncut enzo keys.

And I purchased a cut key from ebay and got a blank from a member here and made my own key. PAP posted a DIY post. Easy and fast.

Sorry to hear

Good luck

 

Personally if I was that concerned going in I would have watched him like a hawk the whole time. Easier said then done. This guy should pick up the tab for another key instead of split it. That'll probably be a stretch since it was crazy pricey to begin with. Good luck.

 

Bum deal...
Doesn't seem too complicated though-locksmith damaged, he is liable for the full replacement. Simple. Give him the receipt, tell him to replace or reimburse you the whole amount. Do not accept half the amount, you didn't damage half of it.

Think about it this way: I'm sure he was charging you more to cut the Ferrari key than if you were cutting a simple house key. So with the rewards go the risks.

 

Aye, sorry to hear mate.

 

I PM'd you the link to the great detailed write up by PAP's.

Thank's PAP.

I did one yesterday and it looks like it came from the factory.

good luck.

 

I think he owes you the full price.
He accepted the job and ruined the key.
If he ruined the key for your home's front door, he'd pull another blank off the wall (eating the cost) and cut you a new key.
Same concept, slightly different cost...

 

I just got an Enzo key and a Carbon key cut yesterday at a local locksmith. The guy has been in the business for 20 something years. Took him 2 minutes, cost me $4 (for both) and both work perfectly. The funny thing is I went to a couple of other places before I found this guy and nobody wanted to even try cutting them. I have a spare Enzo key (with a blank blade) if anyone's looking to buy one.

 

People just do not pay attention to detail. It drives me crazy!

 

Sad to hear...

 

Too easy mate, good to hear!

 

Yes, thanks PAP, I followed your instructions to put new blank blades in 2 Enzo keys and I'm very happy with the result.

 

Good man!

 

You gotta tell the full story on this one. Lets hear it.

 

I didn't understand the short version. I'd be totally lost with the full version!

 

Thanks for the update man!

Shame about Locksmith #1.

Rizzo's key's look the goods!

 

Nice Story...
the thing is that i am in the same shoes!
I got my car with 2 remotes and 2 keys from a private seller 2 years ago. I did not know it should have the red FOB with the 2 sets.
For some reason, 3 months ago, i lost one set and cannot find it . So now i have only one key and one remote which is a very scary situation.
My question may not be that smart but, how do you benefit from a spare key without a spare remote, since the car automatically sets its alarm on after few minutes? Do you have one remote or more?