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Broken Key Extraction in Louisville, KY
Broken key removed from your ignition, door, or trunk using specialist extraction tools.
$85 to $220
Typical range
15
to 45 minutes
24/7
Answered every day
Keys break because they wear. Every insertion shaves a little metal, the blade thins at its weakest point, and one ordinary morning it shears off inside the lock.
The extraction itself is usually straightforward for someone with the right tools. It becomes expensive when someone has already tried to fix it with pliers, tweezers, or superglue.
The fragment comes out with proper spiral and hook extractors, then a fresh key is cut on the spot, so you are not left stranded with a hole where your key used to be.
What’s included
Proper extraction tools
Spiral and double-hook extractors designed to grip a key blade inside a wafer stack, rather than improvised tools that scar the cylinder.
Replacement cut on site
Extraction alone leaves you with no key. A fresh one is cut, and the transponder programmed if your vehicle needs it, in the same visit.
Any lock
Ignition, driver's door, trunk, glovebox, and toolbox locks.
Lock preserved
Done correctly the cylinder is undamaged and needs no replacement. That is the whole point of calling rather than improvising.
How the visit goes
- 1
Assess the fragment
How deep the break is, and whether the wafers are still aligned, determines the technique.
- 2
Extract
The fragment is gripped and withdrawn along the keyway rather than forced.
- 3
Inspect the cylinder
The wafers are checked for any bending or displacement from the break or the extraction.
- 4
Cut a replacement
A new key is cut to code, not copied from the broken fragment, so you get a full-depth key rather than another worn one.
Common Broken Key Extraction questions
Can I get the broken key out myself?
Please do not try. Superglue bonds the fragment to the wafers and turns a 20-minute extraction into a cylinder replacement. Pliers and tweezers push the fragment deeper and bend wafers. If the fragment is protruding far enough to grip with your fingers, gently pull it straight out. Otherwise call.
Will my lock need to be replaced?
Very rarely, when the extraction is done properly. The cylinder is designed to have a key in it. Damage almost always comes from improvised removal attempts rather than the break itself.
Why did my key break in the first place?
Metal fatigue. Every use wears the blade a little thinner, and worn keys concentrate stress at the shoulder. If one key has broken, any other keys of the same age are on the same path. This is a good moment to cut fresh ones to code.
Can you extract a key and program a new one in one visit?
Yes. Extraction and replacement happen back to back, in the same visit.
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