Two Saturns, one key

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David Teichholtz

When I bought my 97 SL1, it came with two keys. The ignition switch had
been replaced and the idiots who did it did not bother to have the switch
coded to the car.

Today, while doing some other work to the car which involved having one of
the door skins off, I decided to pull both door lock cylinders, the trunk
cylinder and the ignition and get them coded to the key to my 95 SW1. Now
one key works both cars. Locksmith charged $40 to recode the cylinders.

-David
 
When I bought my 97 SL1, it came with two keys. The ignition switch had
been replaced and the idiots who did it did not bother to have the switch
coded to the car.

Today, while doing some other work to the car which involved having one of
the door skins off, I decided to pull both door lock cylinders, the trunk
cylinder and the ignition and get them coded to the key to my 95 SW1. Now
one key works both cars. Locksmith charged $40 to recode the cylinders.

-David
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Wise move.
 
Back in the good old days I had a similar setup. My friends Dodge truck key
would open the door on my Volare and I didn't need a key to turn the
ignition so if I locked myself out I could just get him to unlock my door
and away I went. My anti-theft device was a kill switch under the dash and a
push button to replace the solenoid.
 
When I bought my 97 SL1, it came with two keys. The ignition switch had
been replaced and the idiots who did it did not bother to have the switch
coded to the car.

Today, while doing some other work to the car which involved having one of
the door skins off, I decided to pull both door lock cylinders, the trunk
cylinder and the ignition and get them coded to the key to my 95 SW1. Now
one key works both cars. Locksmith charged $40 to recode the cylinders.

-David
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Wow totally sweet!

later,


tom @ www.WorkAtHomePlans.com
 
When I bought my 97 SL1, it came with two keys. The ignition switch had
been replaced and the idiots who did it did not bother to have the switch
coded to the car.

Today, while doing some other work to the car which involved having one of
the door skins off, I decided to pull both door lock cylinders, the trunk
cylinder and the ignition and get them coded to the key to my 95 SW1. Now
one key works both cars. Locksmith charged $40 to recode the cylinders.

-David
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So now we know why Locksmithing is a dying trade and most locksmiths are
starving.

The last locksmith I met hadn't bathed in weeks, smelled to high heaven
and basically lived inside his smelly, messed up van.

He had half his teeth missing (or installed, depending upon how you look
at it) and couldn't string together a simple sentence composed of words a
3rd grader would understand.
In the proper order of course.

We used to have a couple of smiths' do work for the dealer I work at but
we quickly discovered that any idiot with the proper machine can generate
a key for a car so we cut them loose.

We ended up saving money big time because the number of cars the
lockmsiths screwed up (mostly popped airbags) was substantial.

My impression of Locksmiths is that they rank below insurance salesmen but
ever so slightly above a dustman.
 
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That costs extra money you know. Maybe they didn't have as much money
as you seem to have.

There are also disadvantages to having the same key for the door and
the ignition. A clever guy might have thought of that.

 
Tommy said:
So now we know why Locksmithing is a dying trade and most locksmiths
are starving.

The last locksmith I met hadn't bathed in weeks, smelled to high
heaven and basically lived inside his smelly, messed up van.

He had half his teeth missing (or installed, depending upon how you
look at it) and couldn't string together a simple sentence composed
of words a 3rd grader would understand.
In the proper order of course.

We used to have a couple of smiths' do work for the dealer I work at
but we quickly discovered that any idiot with the proper machine can
generate a key for a car so we cut them loose.

We ended up saving money big time because the number of cars the
lockmsiths screwed up (mostly popped airbags) was substantial.

My impression of Locksmiths is that they rank below insurance
salesmen but ever so slightly above a dustman.
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honestly, who gives a ****?
 
Little Tommy,

You shouldn't speak about your father that way...

He keyed the car to match out of love, and we know you filled the airbags
with beans be comfortable playing video games.

When the trailers a rocking, your picking your nose real hard - troll!


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sbb78247 <[email protected]>, the skin-headed-idler and
tongue-tied him-her who likes earth-shattering courtesy fucks with
xenopus, and whose partner is a minx with a gaping dicky dino, wrote in
honestly, who gives a ****?
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The dustman who has been classed as a lesser mortal than a fucking
locksmith.
**** me! At least dustmen do something useful on a regular basis and don't
expect to be paid large sums of money for fucking things up.



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Dishonoured mudskipper intestine with bladder seasoning under dirty carp
abscess and jackal liver topping garnished with half-raw hippopotamus
gizzard next to blemished cadaver foreskins and opossum penis topping,
simmered in a splashing bucket overflowing with big medley of stomach in
festering gore, a side of fruit and a pint of pond scum.
 
Banned Apache jabbered in alt.os.windows-xp:
sbb78247 <[email protected]>, the skin-headed-idler and
tongue-tied him-her who likes earth-shattering courtesy fucks with
xenopus, and whose partner is a minx with a gaping dicky dino, wrote


The dustman who has been classed as a lesser mortal than a fucking
locksmith.
**** me! At least dustmen do something useful on a regular basis and
don't expect to be paid large sums of money for fucking things up.
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this is true - the dustman should rank higher as long as we are not
speaking of dustbin ko0k!
 
sbb78247 said:
this is true - the dustman should rank higher as long as
we are not
speaking of dustbin ko0k!
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hey, ole clueless one.
you are defiantly with the right organization :-)
 
mm said:
That costs extra money you know. Maybe they didn't have as much money
as you seem to have.
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As much money as I seem to have? Ha! I paid $700 for this car after the
person
who owned it was offered $250 by her mechanic. It started running rough
literally at the
last minute before the owner was moving a few states away. I got the car
running and offered the $700
and she was thrilled. With a child in college and another in private school,
I have very little money
to spend on buying cars.

I did question the previous owner about the keys and she was never offered
the option of
having the lock coded correctly, she was surprised that it could even be
done.
There are also disadvantages to having the same key for the door and
the ignition. A clever guy might have thought of that.
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There are, but for my needs one key is much more convienient.
 
So now we know why Locksmithing is a dying trade and most locksmiths are
starving.

The last locksmith I met hadn't bathed in weeks, smelled to high heaven
and basically lived inside his smelly, messed up van.
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Well in this case the locksmith was a female, and was, in my opinion, a
fairly attractive person.
(and she smelled pretty good!)

-David
 
"to *have* the switch coded..." means you are talking about a previous
owner, right? If you were talking about locksmiths, you would have
said "did not bother to code the switch to the car".
As much money as I seem to have? Ha! I paid $700 for this car after the
person
who owned it was offered $250 by her mechanic. It started running rough
literally at the
last minute before the owner was moving a few states away. I got the car
running and offered the $700
and she was thrilled. With a child in college and another in private school,
I have very little money
to spend on buying cars.
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Well you seemed to have a lot of money, because most people without a
lot of money would understand why another such person wouldn't pay to
have locks keyed alike. Instead you called them "idiots".
I did question the previous owner about the keys and she was never offered
the option of
having the lock coded correctly, she was surprised that it could even be
done.

There are, but for my needs one key is much more convienient.
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Your needs are irrelevant, since it's the other people you called
idiots.
 
in message
[email protected]
says...

Ask the persons in your group that question. None of the
Saturn regs
have been crossposting. I doubt when the original poster
replied he knew
his post was hijacked and crossposted by a troll.
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"David Teichholtz" is also not on our group.

nuff said anyway.

g'day
 
David,
Can you tell me how to remove the door skins from my 96 Saturn Coupe?

Thanks,
Marc
 
I remember well when I bought my (new) 95 SL1. It was a nightmare. I
know everyone says they are treated well, but I guess they figured,
"This guy's a schmuck, we can ignore the bastard."
Indeed, my dad accompanied me, and he described the experience as
"pretty shabby."

Anyway, at one point, the sales guy says, "Here's your key!" One
stinking key! Aren't there two? I asked. "One opens everything!"

A 5 page letter to Saturn Corp detailing the nightmare got me the other
key.

[I would have returned the car, but I was starting an intense college
schedule in a few days, and I wanted a new car, and didn't not want to
restart the buying process."]
 
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