Lost the keys to my car — what now? We rebuild access from the VIN

About lost car keys in Austin, TX

You do not need the missing key, a spare, or a tow. It does not matter whether you truly lost the keys to my car or simply have misplaced car keys somewhere at home, work or a friend's house — once you tell us the year, make and model, we arrive with the right blank and the security tooling to teach your car a new key where it is parked. Most lost-car-key jobs in Austin, TX are finished within an hour of arrival.

Keys vanish at Zilker Park, on Lady Bird Lake trails, at Rainey Street bars and in Barton Creek Square parking garages. Our dispatchers ask three questions — year, make, model — and immediately know whether your vehicle needs a mechanical key, a transponder, a rolling-code remote head or a full proximity fob.

Because a lost key may be in someone else's pocket, we treat every all-keys-lost job as a security event. After the new key is coded we run a memory wipe that invalidates every previously paired key. Anyone who finds the old one is holding a piece of scrap metal.

We also handle the awkward cases: keys dropped in the lake, keys locked inside a running vehicle, keys shredded by a garbage truck, and rental or fleet vehicles where the ownership paperwork sits with a company office. Tell us the situation and we will tell you exactly what documentation we need.