Always have spare keys!

[terrawombat]

This is a friendly reminder to make sure everyone has at least one set of spare keys for each one of their vehicles! Don't be a dope like me and spend $25 to have two brand new keys made at the local Jeep dealership because you lost your only set!

 

I was visiting a friend about an hour and a half north of me a few weekends ago and I took my keys with me when we went out to have some (many) drinks at a bar. I'm fairly confident I lost my keys in the cab ride back home because I remember fumbling in my pocket while we were at the bar and the keys were there. Of course, the cab company didn't find any keys in any cab, although I'm not convinced they even looked. I lost a key to my '01XJ, my '91YJ (the ONLY key I had), aftermarket center console to my YJ, my house, office, and girlfriend's apartment. I then had to inconvenience my friend and have her drive me back home and then take a train ride back with my spare keys to get my XJ. Luckily I live an hour and a half away so I'm fairly confident no one will know where I or my vehicles live :)

 

Anyway, if you don't have a copy of any of your keys, get some made! It's real cheap insurance!

[kastein]

2 copies... not one!

 

Keep the original at home (else you end up with a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy... that only works when you turn it just the right way, while jiggling it and pressing it upwards), a copy on your keychain, and a copy on a flat blank (the ones without the rubber handle) in your wallet. That way if you lose your keys (happened to me at the junkyard once :eek:) you can still get home.

[Sir Sam]

I keep a copy hidden in my rectum. :oops:

[freakjeep93]

I keep a copy hidden in my rectum. :oops:

didnt need to know that sam..... :rotfl2:

[jimoshel]

Brings back a ?? memory. When I come home I would unlock the door, enter, lay keys on TV set by the door, shut or leave door open depending on weather. One night about 10PM I get a call from work needing my presence, now. Leaving the house I get halfway to the truck and realize I don't have my keys. Head back to the house and remember house and car keys on same ring. Sometimes if I didn't shut the back bed room window tightly I can work it open. Not tonight. It's getting later, I'm getting desperate, IE, P*ssed. Grab ladder nearby and put it thru bed room window, crawl thru and head for front room. As I reach for keys on TV I notice the front door is standing open. Needless to say I was not to jovial to those around me that night. I always have copies of keys but seems I can never find them when I need them.

[maddzz1]

I have to do this. I don't have a copy of any for all 3 of my cars.

[Pete M]

back in the day when the 88 was my dd, I simply duct taped a door key somewhere on the truck (only needed the one key after I found out the ignition didn't actually require a key).

 

and I have a house key stashed somewhere on the premises too. :yes: (ans not under the mat or in a fake rock either :rotf: )

[maddzz1]

back in the day when the 88 was my dd, I simply duct taped a door key somewhere on the truck (only needed the one key after I found out the ignition didn't actually require a key).

 

and I have a house key stashed somewhere on the premises too. :yes: (ans not under the mat or in a fake rock either :rotf: )

 

 

let me guess. Its duct taped to the 88 :idea:

[kastein]

back in the day when the 88 was my dd, I simply duct taped a door key somewhere on the truck (only needed the one key after I found out the ignition didn't actually require a key).

 

and I have a house key stashed somewhere on the premises too. :yes: (ans not under the mat or in a fake rock either :rotf: )

I've seen trucks with so much duct-taped-covered-rust on them that a thief would still have trouble finding the key even knowing this :rotf:

[dasbulliwagen]

I found a spare set of keys on my truck up UNDER (above) the spare tire, tied to the winch shaft with a heavy wire. Not sure how the PO was supposed to get at the keys without a jack tool to let the spare down though. That still has me confused. :hmm:

[freakjeep93]

first day i drove tp school i locked the keys in my car so after using s coat hanger to open my rear door( scratching the door frame pretty good) and crawling throught the interior to open the drivers door i found a magnetic box thing inside my front bumper a week later with a spare key in it. wish i had of know that sooner

[teckman02]

i once lost my only key to my liberty 06 liberty and to get the new key when all was done it costed me i think it was 250 something

[Burls]

The other day I manged to lock myself out of my new house that I just closed on an hour before. I left the only 2 keys on the kitchen counter. :fs1: I was making a run to the hardware store and out habit locked the door knob and shut the door, once it latched I realize that didn't have any keys. :oops: Didn't have garage door remotes nor had I set up a password on the keypad. I ended up having to call a lock smith and wait an hour for him to come opened the door with a casino membership card. My pride was gone and my pockets were 70 doll hairs lighter, but he did put the new door lock & deadbolt on free of charge. I went to get my check book and came back to find him putting them on for me.

 

 

I always keep a truck key in my wallet and have a house key strategically stashed behind a shutter and keep an extra one in my glove box.

 

First thing I always do when I get a new vehicle is get a flat key made for my wallet. Learned that the hard way.

[JeepcoMJ]

Never lost one of mine...only locked them in the trucks. Since I've stripped so many, I either just break the wing window, or if it's rusty, reach through the floor. Either way, I'm not out anything I don't already have.

[Philistine]

I always keep a second set of keys to my vehicles in my wallet. Of course there's that one time I locked my key ring and my wallet in the car at work. Thankfully we had a locksmith on the premesis.

 

I also keep an extra house key in a lock box hidden by my house. It's expensive to get a locksmith to unlock your house for you at 2:30 AM.

[Rymanrph]

That's the one thing I like more about my 98 TJ instead of my 2000. The '98 had a normal key, but my 2000 has the sentry key and I really don't want to spend $80 on key. I've got a GM key for the ignition on the comanche and an AMC key that I can't figure out what it does (certainly doesn't unlock the doors, which I almost learned the hard way). I need to make copies of those.

[Justin_k]

Got the door key for my cherokee in my wallet, ignition hidden somewhere inside. Comanche only has 1 key, no door key so I have to leave the wing panel window unlocked. (It looks pretty beat soI don't think anyone would even try and break in :oops: )