Ignition Repair in Abbotsford

A worn ignition cylinder is the fault behind most keys that will not turn. The wafers inside the lock wear against the key until the two no longer line up, and forcing it snaps the key off in the barrel.

We rebuild or replace the cylinder at the vehicle and code it to the key you already carry, so you do not leave with a house key ring holding two car keys.

Abbotsford is a booked visit rather than a dispatch. We agree a window on the phone, then drive Highway 1 east, about 70 km from the Macdonald Street shop, which takes 60-75 minutes each way.

You get the price on the phone before anyone is dispatched, and the technician confirms it at the door before starting work.

The key turns in the door but not the ignition

The blade is fine. The ignition wafers are worn.

You have to jiggle or lift the wheel

That is usually a steering lock binding against the cylinder, and it gets worse, not better.

The key sticks in the ON position

A return spring or a worn cam. Both are cylinder work.

A broken key in the barrel

We extract the broken piece and then decide whether the cylinder is worth rebuilding.

The service call in standard hours is $75 and the cylinder work is quoted on top once we have looked at it. Where a new key is needed as well, a programmed transponder key is $180-$280 and a proximity smart key is $280-$420.

Related pages: Abbotsford car keys and programming and the site-wide ignition repair page.