Lose your Car Keys?Locked out of your car?We have all been there. It is that familiar gut-wrenching feeling of being stranded when you accidentally lock your keys in your car or lost your car keys. Locksmiths of Kansas City is here to offer help with prompt, friendly service. The solution to your automobile lock emergency is only a phone call away. Locksmiths of Kansas City appreciates how important your vehicle is to you and we will treat your car with great care and respect as
we work to get you back on the road in a timely manner. Our technicians are equipped with the most advanced tools and diagnostic computers available. Vats
Keys, Transponder/Chip Keys are no problem for our qualified technicians. No one knows locks and ignitions like Locksmiths of Kansas City.
Locksmiths today must come specially trained to deal with both the physical aspects of locks and keys as well as the new electronic aspects being added to
new cars. What you as a consumer needs to expect from your Automotive Locksmith is knowledge, specialty tools and inventory. The modern Auto Locksmith comes to a lock job
in a service vehicle such as a van. He will come complete with a good key blank and ignition lock inventory. He will have several manufacturers chip or transponder keys as
well. All the necessary tools to make and program a key into your car. The programmers locksmiths use can be expensive pieces of equipment. Serious
Auto Locksmiths have invested thousands of dollars in programming tools and software. Staying current with changing technology is one of the most expensive problems
the modern locksmith deals with. The consumer often does not understand why the cost of making a key to a car is so
expensive. But cars are in a constant evolution and the modern Auto Locksmith has to adapt. Car keys are now being constructed with the remote lock/unlock feature
being built into the key itself. These remote head keys while convenient can be expensive if lost.
Making a key today often requires a 2 step approach. Making a physical or mechanical key, and then programming the key electroniclly into the cars computer. Todays locksmith has to first make a physical key to your car or truck. Then the locksmith will connect a key programmer to the cars OBDII port to gain access to the cars computer system. Then he can begin the key programming step. Depending on the year, make and model of your vehicle,this could take a few seconds or as long as 30 minutes or more. Every car is different. So please be patient when our locksmiths ask you questions about your car over the phone. The few minutes spent giving the locksmith ACCURATE information about your vehicle can save hours of time and labor later.
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offers complete locksmith Services for Jeep
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Jeep HistoryThe Jeep
is the oldest marque 4 wheel drive vehicle being made today. It has gone through many evolutions and owners since its inception in 1941.
The origin of the name is hard to verify but the most popular are competing theories: the original military designation was GP which was phonetically
pronounced "Jeep". Many, including Lee Ermey of Mail Call, suggest that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally
named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye cartoons created by E. C. Segar. Eugene the Jeep
was Popeyes "jungle pet" and was "small, able to
move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."
Willy-Overland made the first Jeeps in early 1941 and demonstrated their off road capability by driving up the steps of the U.S. Capitol. The government
started giving large orders for the vehicle and Ford and others had to pick up the slack with their versions. Since then the Jeep
has gone through many evolutions
of ownership as shown by the following summary:
Chrysler LLC now holds title to the Jeep brand in its original headquarters in Toledo, OH although they are no longer produced there.
Jeep Locks and KeysJeep
locks and keys have evolved over the years. In the early years, Jeeps locks and keys were made by AMC. ( American Motors Corporation ) The American
motors name and logo often was on the key. Early Jeep Keys-Sentry Key ProgrammingJeep keys became much more sophisticated in 1998. Chrysler started adding a new advanced Anti theft security system to the WJ Grand Cherokees. It was called the Sentry Key Immobilizer System.(SKIS) With this system there is a transponder chip embedded in the jeep key. An RF signal communicates with the key and as long as the vehicles computer recognizes the key, the car is allowed to start and stay running. If keys are lost then you will only be able to have keys made by the dealer or a professional locksmith with the proper key programming equipment. These new keys have to be programmed into the Jeep computer. You are allowed to have 8 keys programmed into the SKIM. ( Sentry Key Immobilizer Module ) A Dart machine was one of the earliest Jeep programmers. If you have 2 keys already for your Jeep, adding a third key is simple. You do not need a locksmith to add a third key. Just follow the directions below. Jeep Locksmith Services
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offers complete locksmith Services for Ford
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Ford HistoryBased on total world wide sales, Ford is the world’s fourth largest auto maker. Founded in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, MI in June 1903, the Ford Motor
Company has become one of the largest and most successful companies besides being one of the few to survive the Great Depression in the 1930’s. Henry Ford’s
company is also the largest family controlled company with over 100 years of continuous ownership.
By 1913 Ford had introduced the moving assembly line that greatly enhanced productivity and boosted annual output to 202,667 units. By 1920 total production
would exceed over one million cars per year. Henry Ford died of a brain hemorrhage in 1947 and at his funereal an estimated 20,000 people stood
outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in the rain with 600 attending inside.
Early Ford
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Ford instituted novel labor practices (criticized by Wall Street at the time) that doubled his factory worker’s
pay and cut their hours to 8 hours a day and 5 days a week. Productivity soared and employee turn-over declined dramatically and with these changes cost per
unit also declined. Ford workers could now afford to buy the cars they had made.
The keyways on the door key and ignition key were exactly opposite. These locks were also 5 pin
tumbler locks. A lost key could easily be replaced. These ford locks could be impressioned by a master locksmith.
The next change for Ford Locks and Keys would come in 1984 with the Ford 10-cut system.
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