Automotive lockouts are some of the most frustrating issues that car owners can experience, being both frustrating and even dangerous. In this blog entry, the professional car locksmith team here at Green Locksmith Daytona will provide some useful tips to avoid car lockouts, or to implement if you ever realize that you’ve locked your keys inside your vehicle.
Locking Car Doors from Outside
It’s a great habit to ONLY lock your car doors from outside of your vehicle using your key or the key fob. This way, you can make sure that your keys are physically retrieved from your vehicle, and in-hand before the vehicle itself ever gets locked. If your car doesn’t have a remote lock, try to make a habit of only leaving your car when you have the feeling of your keys inside your hand.
Utilizing your Spare Key
Ideally, you’ll already have a spare key far in advance that you keep on your body at all times, or in an easily retriable place. If your spare key is at home or your workplace, get a trusted friend or family member to bring it to you. Remember, if you don’t have a spare key, and need to contact a trusted automotive locksmith service like those here at Green Locksmith Daytona, ask them to make you a car key replacement (and spares) from scratch, or after they retrieve your original car key from the vehicle’s interior. It’s not a bad idea to hide a spare car key on a discreet magnetic box positioned on your vehicle – but if you do so, make sure to hide it very, very, VERY well.
Check Car Doors
Make sure that all of your car doors are actually locked if you find yourself locked out. Some modern car models can unlock with a push even when the keys are inside the car. Just make sure that you can’t actually get back into the car before you contact a locksmith.
Look for Key Fobs
Sometimes, automotive key fobs house the mechanical key blade inside their body. If you have your key fob, and your car still requires a physical key that you cannot find, double-check to see if your key fob has the proper equipment already housed inside it.
Contact a Licensed Automotive Locksmith
If you find yourself locked out of your vehicle, contact the highly experienced automotive lockout team here at Green Locksmith Daytona for expert, direct-to-location, rapid-arrival, on-the-spot service. Our team unlocks car doors, replaces car keys on the spot, programs car keys directly at your location, and is available to travel anywhere in the Daytona area, at all hours of day and night, in order to provide you with a rapid and effective solution for your automotive lockout predicament.