24/7 · van ~22 min out

Livermore and the Tri-Valley · 24/7

Automotive Locksmith in Livermore

The ACE station lot on Railroad Avenue, the outlet mall off the freeway, driveways and RV pads in Granada and Vineyard, three-car garages south of Concannon, the yards and lots along Vasco Road and Greenville Road, and the curb outside the community center. Photo ID and the registration are matched to the plate before a blank goes near the machine. Nothing gets packed up until the engine has fired twice on the new key and the doors lock and unlock with it, and a lost key can be dropped out of the vehicle memory when you want that done. One practical note: if the car is shut inside a garage whose opener has quit, say that on the call, because the house door gets opened first and the car comes after.

from $89

Starts at

22 min

Avg. arrival

24/7

Availability

Automotive Locksmith by Arroyo Key & Bolt in Livermore

On every job

Opened, Then Keyed

Four things that hold the same way for a 1962 ranch house in Sunset East, a bungalow behind an alley garage in the Jensen Tract, a builder keypad in Windmill Springs and a shop unit off Las Positas Road.

One figure on the call, whichever of the three doors it turns out to be. Say which door stopped you and what it is doing. A single figure comes back that holds the $89 visit, the labor and every part that ends up on the door. It does not matter whether the answer is the service door beside the garage, the slab between the garage and the kitchen, or the front door with the cylinder nobody has turned in four years. You hear the number first, and the evening or overnight hour is counted in before you hear it.
The receipt shows that same figure, whatever the technician finds. A knob set from 1962 that has been painted twice. A deadbolt whose strike is screwed into trim instead of the stud. A keypad flat since the July heat. A slab door so swollen the latch has not met the frame since spring. A cylinder that three owners of keys still fit. None of that moves the price. Your card is charged the number from the call, and an itemized receipt lands in your email.
Opened without damage first, and a drill only after you agree. Picks, decoders, shims and bypass tools come out before anything destructive does, so the lock is still a working lock when the van pulls away. If a cylinder genuinely will not give, you hear what it is doing, what would go on in its place and what that costs, and you make the call. Saying yes to a drill never earns anyone a bigger number.
Nobody leaves without a key or a code that works. Opening the door is half the job. The other half is that tomorrow morning is not a repeat of today: a key cut on the spot, a rekey so one key runs the front door, the garage service door and the slider, or a keypad code you choose yourself and punch in twice while the technician is still on the step. Card or tap at the door, and the itemized receipt goes to your inbox under a business name.

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Describe the problem on the call. The price gets named either way.

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24/7 — nights, weekends & holidays

Say which of the three doors stopped you, hear the figure, and get inside

Livermore, Pleasanton, Dublin, San Ramon, Danville and Sunol, 24/7, holidays included. The garage and its service door, the slab between the garage and the kitchen, the front door you never open, a shop unit, a car or a safe: one figure comes back with the $89 visit and the hour counted inside it. And you do not get left standing in an open doorway, because the visit ends with a key or a code that works.