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thank you!!!
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Craig, I could use a good Mk1 boot handle if the chrome is in good shape. Can you please email me?
Collin , Email sent !
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Craig, I could use a good Mk1 boot handle if the chrome is in good shape. Can you please email me?
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I bought a Mini years ago as a tenager with a worn out FS door/boot lock key and on a whim i checked to see if it would work on other friends Mini's it would open up just about all of them. I heard there were only about 100 different FS key codes over the years, do the math 5.3 million Mini's produced originally with 100 different key codes there are a bunch of them running around with identical keys.
Makes you wonder what "FS" stood for. I suspect the "S" meant 'simple'. Pick what you want for the "F".
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"Hang on a minute lads....I've got a great idea."
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Contact these guys (website design might look shockingly familiar).
They are able to make any mini key if you give them the 3-digit key code. They have every master key ever made, I believe. I had this service done at MME back in MD as they were one of the vendors on site.
//www.triple-c.com/Keys_-_Replacement.cfm
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I bought a Mini years ago as a tenager with a worn out FS door/boot lock key and on a whim i checked to see if it would work on other friends Mini's it would open up just about all of them. I heard there were only about 100 different FS key codes over the years, do the math 5.3 million Mini's produced originally with 100 different key codes there are a bunch of them running around with identical keys.
If in doubt, flat out. Colin Mc Rae MBE 1968-2007.
Give a car more power and it goes faster on the straights,
make a car lighter and it's faster everywhere. Colin Chapman.
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Years ago i bought a Jensen Healey with a locking gas cap and a missing key. I took it to a locksmith and it was beyond repair so he took all the tumblers etc out of it and the result was it locked but any key opened it. It may be a cheap alternative rather than re keying every lock to be the same and only you would know.
... not that the lock cylinders are very sophisitcated anyway. My mid-1980's Mini's boot/door key has only 4 pin notches and the key will just about go in upside down anyway. I could probably pick it with a paper clip within about 1/2 hour.
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thank you for the info, i might go that route if i can't find a lock cylinder keyed to my ignition and door lock
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Years ago i bought a Jensen Healey with a locking gas cap and a missing key. I took it to a locksmith and it was beyond repair so he took all the tumblers etc out of it and the result was it locked but any key opened it. It may be a cheap alternative rather than re keying every lock to be the same and only you would know.
If in doubt, flat out. Colin Mc Rae MBE 1968-2007.
Give a car more power and it goes faster on the straights,
make a car lighter and it's faster everywhere. Colin Chapman.
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thank you!!
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yes i can wait, let me know what you find
thank you!!
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i am looking for someone that can re-key my boot handle lock cylinder, or can i buy a new one that matches
my door and ignition cylinder already keyed to my key code?, my ignition and door key code is 731. does
anyone have a good used boot lock cylinder with a key code of 731??