£6 to get a key cut?

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£6 to get a key cut?
fadda
Full Member

One specialist later I was the owner of a £100 car ignition key

Vauxhall insignia = £145.

Yay! I win!

Oh, hang on…

Posted 7 years ago

giantalkali
Free Member

£6 at Timpsons? Criminal

Posted 7 years ago

Jamie
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Timpsons sense of responsibility is incredible. 10% of staff are ex convicts…

That’ll explain why I felt robbed 😀

Posted 7 years ago

wilburt
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The bottom line podcast is a classic btw.
Its not just about employing ex offenders although that always gets the headlines. Really its about how the owner has decentralised the business, the sales data isnt linked, what happens in a store is left to the manager of that store.
Unheard of from a big chain when normally everything is analysed to the last customer cough.
At the time of the podcast it seemed to be working, hope it still is.

Posted 7 years ago

CountZero
Full Member

Try getting a barrel-type key for a bike lock cut for six quid! I just had a nice brass back-up front door key cut to keep in my wallet at Timpson’s, and it was £6, IIRC. Seems reasonable to me.

Posted 7 years ago

allthepies
Free Member

If you’ve got a bog-standard Eurocylinder lock then replace it with something secure. A burglar will break the Eurocylinder and be in your house in under a minute, happened to me.

Eurocylinder snappage

Posted 7 years ago

RustySpanner
Full Member

ahwiles – Member
sounds fair to me, and i live in Yorkshire.

Incomer eh?
🙂

Sounds a bit pricey to me and I’m from Lancashire.

Three for a tenner in Asda.

Posted 7 years ago

fooman
Full Member

Three for a tenner at Homebase too, using an automated machine. It takes a picture of the key, tells the operator what blank to load and away it goes.

Posted 7 years ago

mattyfez
Full Member

For a bog standard yale type key, the shop in my local town charges £4. Got one done in the city where I work and it was £6.

Key cutting it seems, is like the price of a pint of beer, depends where you go! 😆

Posted 7 years ago

PePPeR
Full Member

Timpsons normally do 3 for a tenner too.

Posted 7 years ago

midlifecrashes
Full Member

Only £2.50 here, from a bloke in a blue overall who will happily sell you fork handles and various sorts of plugs.

Edit: pic not working, try again.

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Posted 7 years ago

jiff
Free Member

I agree with £6 seeming expensive.
I was given this quote for a similar Yale type key, so went to the local hardware shop who charged £2 for the same product. No issues with it not fitting the tumblers either – they put it onto a polishing wheel to remove any sharp edges.
Quality service still exists

Posted 7 years ago

brooess
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No wonder half the country’s broke and just voted to leave EU in protest! FFS… £6! Or do we not care about people struggling by on low incomes so long as we’re ok…

Thank goodness there’s businesses run like Timpsons – proving capitalism can be a force for social good at the same time as providing decently-paid jobs and creating wealth for the owners and shareholders.

The confounding thing about Timpsons is that the Chief Exec’s brother is a Tory Minister – so luckily for us not all Tories are of the May and Osborne variety… just rather a lot of them, sadly

Posted 7 years ago

Jamie
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No wonder half the country’s broke and just voted to leave EU in protest! FFS

Can I see your working?

Posted 7 years ago

brooess
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Can I see your working?

Well, if I was stupid enough to have voted out then I’d think that 52% of 70% was ‘all the people’ but as I’m not that stupid I accept your correction… 🙂 though of course the point still stands… the less we’re willing to pay for UK-produced goods and services the faster the economy will go down the pan as the jobs go abroad and remaining workers get testy… as we’re currently finding out…

Posted 7 years ago

revs1972
Free Member

There used to be an old boy operating out of the back of an old HiAce on the road into Torquay.
Only used to to operate in the summer. £1 a key. And they were good too, not like the sh1te I had cut at Trago for £4 that wouldn’t open the door. Haven’t seen him since they opened the bypass

Posted 7 years ago

Sundayjumper
Full Member

Have you seen the key for the current 7-Series ? It has a touch screen. I dread to think what a replacement costs.

Posted 7 years ago

Cougar
Full Member

Have you seen the key for the current 7-Series ? It has a touch screen.

What the actual…?

Posted 7 years ago

nickjb
Free Member

What the actual…?

Its smaller than the last one

Posted 7 years ago

Sandwich
Full Member

Have you seen the key for the current 7-Series ? It has a touch screen. I dread to think what a replacement costs.

You can have lube as an optional extra when ordering….

Best £10 you’ll ever spend!

Posted 7 years ago

trail_rat
Free Member

I was surprised this morning.

2 iveco key blanks cut from a pattern – i supplied both as iveco blanks like rocking horse poo

2 quid in the charity box. I gave 5.

Top service from timpson

Posted 7 years ago

deadkenny
Free Member

I’m sure you can find someone who will do a key cut for free if you let them know where you live 😉

Posted 7 years ago

zippykona
Full Member

I’ve just paid £4 and that’s surrey prices.

Posted 7 years ago

monkeyboyjc
Full Member

I paid £9the other day for an identical pair of padlock keys, wouldn’t have minded, but neither worked when I got home….

Posted 7 years ago

jimbobo
Free Member

£6 key? Lift up handle? Anyone with a drill could be through that in seconds, better off using duct tape and sticks

Posted 7 years ago