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New Lock Barrels

Posted: 17 Apr 2012, 15:11
by Crackers211
Hi people. I'm after advice about new lock barrels please. After my girlfriend used my Beetle key to open my Van by mistake I have realised that any key (even my front door key!!!) will open all the locks.

Does anyone know if you can buy a new set of lock barrels that are matched to one key and if you can put them in to old handels???

Cheers
Crackers

Re: New Lock Barrels

Posted: 17 Apr 2012, 20:11
by Cruz
Problem is most likely the handles too

What happens is little segments wear grooves in the barrel bore in the handle and eventually they can be opened by near enough anything

To fix mine I bought replacement handles then rekeyed the new barrels to the existing key using a mixture of new and old segments

http://www.hallvw.clara.net/lockpart.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Re: New Lock Barrels

Posted: 17 Apr 2012, 21:48
by dansimpson
When I noticed this on one of my locks it turned out that someone had removed all the tumblers from the barrel, remove one and have a look

Re: New Lock Barrels

Posted: 18 Apr 2012, 05:32
by Titus A Duxass
Crackers211 wrote: Does anyone know if you can buy a new set of lock barrels that are matched to one key and if you can put them in to old handels???

Cheers
Crackers

I saw some at Tristar Connection's stall the other weekend.
Try them - http://www.tristar-connection.de/index.php?lang=en

Re: New Lock Barrels

Posted: 18 Apr 2012, 08:14
by Cruz
Custom and Commercial sell new barrels and do a keying service