How to identify a good car locksmith

From AFR Cerrajeros we want to give you three simple guidelines so that you can know if the person you are calling is a real professional or not, since there is a lot of intrusion in the profession and the acts of third parties can cost you a lot of money if the person who is working is not qualified.

Nowadays, automotive locksmithing is a very technological profession in which if you are not constantly updated or trained, you will not be able to know how to act, which can harm the customer and even leave the electronic system of the vehicle completely dead due to bad practices.

That is why we share with you below three guidelines that will help you identify the right professionals:

An experienced professional only needs to know three simple things over the phone to be able to give you a closed price: BRAND, MODEL and YEAR of the vehicle, both for duplication or recovery of car keys, as well as for total loss of keys, since with that information we know which system you have, which key you use and the method to follow. If you are told that you have to see the car, or various excuses before giving you a price, it means that in a few words you do not know what you have in your hands.

A basic of locksmithing that you learn before starting this activity is to know how to lockpick. The lock-picking of locks and cylinders is the opening technique par excellence, fast and the least invasive that exists.

If when “the locksmith” arrives at your vehicle to open it and the first thing he does is put air pads in to force the door frame and uses a rod, he is not a true professional. Using this technique if you go too far you can bend the door frame and possibly cause scratches in the paint by the rubbing of the opening rod.

If they tell you or start removing the cylinder from the car door to recover the key cut IS NOT A PROFESSIONAL, today’s cylinders consist of overlapping parts and pressure, once dismantled, that pressure is no longer the same so the life of that cylinder is shortened considerably and sooner or later the problems will come.

A true professional doesn’t need to remove any cylinder to retrieve the vehicle key cut or the need to purchase the cutting code from the dealer. With experience and the right tools, a car locksmith can retrieve the key cut without disassembling anything at all and in less than two minutes.

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