For those who have replaced their ignition lock cyl
And don't want to use 2 keys for the car?
I found this out when I lost the keys to my 1987 XR7.
When you replace the ign lock cyl, the replacement key has the long, uncut shaft (easy there fellas), with the cuts at the end for the ignition. Reason why it comes like that is because the molds for our ignition, and molds for our door locks are on 2 different halves of the key. The top half of the key is for the doors, the bottom half is for the ignition. What I did was:
I pulled the driver's side door lock (took all of 5 seconds) and the replacement ignition key and took them both to my local locksmith. In 1 hour they had my car's door lock molds cut into the replacement igniton key (the part that is not cut). It costed all of $6 for them to do this and VIOLA! I have created a door/ignition key for the car.
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