Motorcycle Keys in San Rafael
Keys cut and transponder chips programmed for motorcycles and scooters, $119 to $285.
$119–$285
Typical price
21 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
A motorcycle key goes missing in the same places a car key does, and the bike is far harder to move afterward. The garages off Fourth Street. The Civic Center lots. The turnout at China Camp after a Sunday loop of Point San Pedro Rd. A garage in the Canal. The lot at Northgate. Marin Lock & Key cuts keys for Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Harley-Davidson, Triumph, BMW, Ducati, KTM, Vespa and most scooters, at the bike, from the ignition or a lock code, with no trailer and no wait at a dealer's parts counter.
Because one person can wheel a bike away, the paperwork comes first: ID against the registration or the title. Then the ignition or the seat lock is decoded. Most bikes leave the factory keyed alike, so a correct blade ought to run the ignition, the fuel cap, the seat and the helmet lock, and each is tried rather than assumed. Bikes with an immobilizer, whether Honda's HISS, BMW's EWS, Ducati's red-key system or one of the newer keyless setups, need the chip enrolled with the module, and that is done beside the bike. The fork lock is turned several times before the van leaves, since it is the lock most likely to bind on a blade cut a fraction shallow.
Motorcycle keys are named between $119 and $285. A plain mechanical key for an older Honda or a scooter is $119. Transponder keys, and immobilizer bikes where no key exists and the module has to be read, reach $285. The $89 service call is inside that figure. An ignition lock damaged past reading is named as its own line before any work begins. Weekends carry nothing extra; only the $55 evening and $90 overnight figures apply.
You call and describe the bike: make, model and year, whether it has an immobilizer, whether any key still exists. The full figure is named on that call. The van leaves and calls from the gate, after the text with the name and the window. Cut: ownership, the blade, programming where needed, and a test of the ignition, the fuel cap, the seat, the helmet lock and the fork lock. The receipt repeats the figure, card or tap at the bike.
“The front door of our 1915 house closed behind me while I was watering the porch ferns, keys on the hall table. The call named $148. The text with the technician's name arrived while I was still on the porch, and the van was at the curb in seventeen minutes. He opened the original mortise cylinder without a mark on the brass, checked that the latch still caught, and the card was charged $148. The figure named on the call was the figure on the receipt, to the dollar.”
Every job is priced from the list below. The full figure is named on the call, before the van leaves the yard, and the receipt repeats it.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$55
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$90
FAQ
Motorcycle Keys: quick answers
A Harley with no key, in the garage under a building on Fourth Street.+
A routine call. On most Harleys the ignition switch and the fork lock can be read where they sit, and a key is cut to that code beside the bike. Models with the fob security system need the fob paired or the PIN entered, which is done with you present. Text the level and the space and come to the garage gate, since the opener is probably on the same lost ring.
What about a Vespa or a small scooter for the commute to the ferry?+
A gas scooter is cut and named like a small motorcycle, and its locks read quickly. Several models carry a magnetic shutter over the ignition that needs its own key; mention it on the call, because the shutter key is named as a line of its own. An electric scooter locked only through an app is another trade entirely, and you hear that on the call rather than at the curb.
Someone tried to start the bike with a screwdriver and now the ignition will not turn.+
A forced ignition usually has broken tumblers inside and yields no code, so the lock comes off the bike. Where it can be, the cylinder is rebuilt to your existing key; otherwise a replacement goes in, keyed to the seat and the fuel cap. That figure is named before any panel comes off.
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24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays
One call, one full figure, the same figure on the receipt
Calls answered 24/7 across San Rafael and the Marin towns beside it. The $89 service call, the labor, the parts and the drive up the hill are inside the figure named on the call, and the receipt repeats it.