How do Car locksmiths re create a key without the original just using a VIN number?
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There are a lot of ways that this works. Sometimes they’re just looking it up and seeing what the manufacturer says it should be. Other times they’re just looking at the lock cylinder for the profile ANY the code printed on the cylinder itself. If you’ve replaced the cylinder it may even be written down by the helpful guy who did it previously to make sure that any future locksmith could figure it out real fast.
This is for physical keys, if you mean just electronic keys those are pretty generic. You need the right kind of key but there aren’t many of them and it’s pretty well registered. If you have an electronic key controlling everything(IE if you have the same key as another car but yours won’t work in their vehicle, now you know why), they’re just connecting to the car to register an ‘official’ key with the right code. You’ll know they are doing this if they call a dealership or they have to plug something into the communication ports of the car.
The keys are pretty standard in length/shape/etc and these are well known and documented. There are even devices for physical locks that can probe and tell you what the correct cut would be for a specific key.
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