all locks ? one key?

steveo3002 · Post by **steveo3002** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:49 pm

my polo has a differant key for the boot and petrol cap, is there a way to make it all one key?

i heard something about filling the tumblers down??

the petrol cap has a funny little key thats not like the ign key...is that normal or a aftermarket cap?

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:24 pm

Petrol cap is always different

Doors, hatch and ignition should match. The boot lock is susceptible to broken pins, so tends to get swapped.

If you're taking the locks out to rebuild the tumblers, you might as well get a matching lockset off a scrapper and just put that back in their place.

steveo3002 · Post by **steveo3002** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 9:44 am

so new cars had a odd small key for the petrol cap anyway? hardly worth bothering then as the doors and ign are the same

NornIron · Post by **NornIron** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:09 pm

If you remove your boot lock and take it and the door key you want to match it with to your VW dealer. They can re-tumble the lock to match your door key...my local dealer did it FOC

steveo3002 · Post by **steveo3002** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:13 pm

cant see my dealer doing that somehow

omicron · Post by **omicron** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:46 pm

steveo3002 wrote:so new cars had a odd small key for the petrol cap anyway? hardly worth bothering then as the doors and ign are the same

Sorry, meant always on Mk2 Polo's.

steveo3002 · Post by **steveo3002** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:43 pm

omicron wrote:
steveo3002 wrote:so new cars had a odd small key for the petrol cap anyway? hardly worth bothering then as the doors and ign are the same
Sorry, meant always on Mk2 Polo's.

yeah thats what i thought you meant....just figured it was a cheapie halford cap or summet becuase it had a small key