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Subject:Re: Lost Keys
From:Steven Johnson
Date:Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:14:46 -0800

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   http://www.steveslockshop.com/

Contact Steve.  He'll fix you right up!

Steven

--- marion lyle lathem <skylink@MFIRE.COM> wrote:

> Hi,
>    I have a 1985 Vanagon GL.  I had one door key
> that worked and I bought a
> new ignition key lock, thought I was in pretty fair
> shape.  That is until I
> lost the keys to the Vanagon, I kept seperate.  This
> seperate key ring had
> the gas cap key, door key and ignition key.  My
> ritual was to always put it
> in my right front pocket.  We went to go to town the
> other morning, my keys
> were gone. We have torn everything up looking so
> many times.. we live in
> disaster land. We did have the spare ignition key
> for the new lock.
>
>    I hate to make drastic changes, thinking my keys
> will show up some day.
> I have thought about installing a kill switch.  One
> option would be to kill
> the gas pump circuit..?  What would be the best way
> to install a kill
> circuit, and would you use a toggle switch..?
>
>     I have priced door lock sets... gads.. like
> going to a dentist...?  I
> was curious why the previous owner just had a key to
> one door, the right
> side..?  Is there a number I can give a VW dealer
> and get a key that
> possibly will fit all my other locks except the
> right door..?  The back door
> I of course never had a key for, but it seems to
> perhaps taken a different
> key...?  ( Depth of lock ) when trying all the keys
> I could find anywhere.
>
> Thanks in advance..!
> Lyle Lathem
> 1985 Vanagon GL
> Quinlan, TX
>

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