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Losing your keys in Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn, or the surrounding areas can be a major inconvenience. You lose access to your home, your car, and potentially other things like a P.O. box or padlocks. It’s generally easy to locate spare keys to most of those, but a car can be more difficult, especially if you don’t have a spare key.
We rely on our cars almost every day to get us where we need to go and we need to be able to access them as quickly as possible. When the key is lost, you need to call someone who can get to you the fastest. You need a locksmith.
Your first inclination may be to call the car dealer, but there are several reasons you shouldn’t do that. You can end up incurring more costs and waiting longer than if you called a locksmith instead.
More often than not, you’re going to end up paying a lot more at a dealership for any kind of car parts. This holds true when it comes to replacing keys as well.
Dealerships also won’t come to you, meaning you will have to figure out a way to get your car to them so they can help you obtain a new key. Remember, you can’t drive your car, so you may end up having to call a tow truck or take a cab to obtain their services.
When you go to a dealership for a key replacement, remember -- that’s not the only thing they do. They sell cars, they service them, they’re busy handling hundreds of other administrative tasks. Your emergency may not be an emergency to them. They may just end up calling a locksmith for you and you may end up owing them a service fee for doing something you could have done on your own.
Additionally, most dealerships are only available during office hours, whereas other options like Sonic Locksmith are accessible 24 hours a day.
