Help urgently needed broken key.

Can you help me someone out there.

I have a Defender 110 1999,which is used extensively for off road mountain trips for my hotel guests. Last week the door key broke in half leaving half in the drivers door lock, it refused to come out dispute special tools for the job.It was my only remaining key.

Reluctantly I took "Wunder" my Defender it to the local Santana man who said 20 mins to fix, he said no replacement keys where no available for Lardrovers? the key has a number on it of FT205, seems odd but this is Spain.
He then said as I had no keys all door tumblers need to be replaced and set about it promising the job would be very quick completed.

He broke the door handle with mins ,and then said it would take 2 days to replace it, I left him too it and when I returned and found he had the back door lock removed and had started to try and get it apart with a hammer and chissel ( I could not see any reason for this) .In the end it took 4 days to change the door locks and cost 160 pounds.

Then I see the fuel cap has no key either, I am not letting him near my beloved landy again and wonder if anyone knows how to get the fuel cap off when no keys is available without more damage.He must have been at it as the plastic cover is damaged.

I cant find a car locksmith here and have only a few gallons in the tank so travelling a long way could be a problem.

Waiting to hear from a from a LR genius.

Many thanks


Peter Plegder

who was this knob? name and shame please.......

how warn is the lock on the cap? if it is quite warn you can normaly get a key of the same size (a little smaller is better) and wiggle it in there while turning the key, this can cause the tumblers to drop into place the turning force keeping them there (it works in the same way as picking a yale lock)

G-man said:

who was this knob? name and shame please.......

how warn is the lock on the cap? if it is quite warn you can normaly get a key of the same size (a little smaller is better) and wiggle it in there while turning the key, this can cause the tumblers to drop into place the turning force keeping them there (it works in the same way as picking a yale lock)

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The lock is not too worn out, I have tried that without sucess but will keep on trying other keys.

Thanks for the suggestion and help.

Peter

the only way to get a locked fuel cap off is to either prize it off and **** it up or drill the lock out snd **** it up. the choice, my friend, is entirely yours

i would either run a 6mm drill bit down the top and bottom of the hole and get a big screwdriver and it'll undo,

i've found most series door locks can be opened with a terminal driver and some wiggling aboot! can't imagine the lock on the fuel cap is too complicated, if it stays on with out locking i'd pick it at home and leave it unlocked. better than picking it in the petrol station!

i'd go back to the garage and open the guys head with a chissel!

yella said:

the only way to get a locked fuel cap off is to either prize it off and **** it up or drill the lock out snd **** it up. the choice, my friend, is entirely yours

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nah, yer obviously just nay good at lock pickin!

scwrewdriver and big hammer whack the 'driver into the lock and give it a twist (easier if the screwdriver has flats for a spanner to go on)

Just a suggestion, if you get desperate you may be able to refuel through the hole the sender unit goes through? Not sure how that's accessed on a 110, easy enough on a 90 though

dunno about the 110 but reckon the fuel filler neck an cap is the same as the 90. Any how if you take the rubber tube the goes between the filler neck an the tank off the filler neck, undo the four self tappers that hold the filler neck to the body an take the filler neck off, undo the small screw on the bottom of the filler cap with a long pozi screwdriver you'll find that the whole of the filler cap comes apart. Watch out though cos there's a small ballbearing an spring an things that'll fall out.

Thanks everyone for your help. its solved.

I stopped for a break at a bar in Nerja, when a locksmith parked outside, I grabbed him and told him the problem and he opened the cap in a few seconds with his special picker. He said as the key was symetrical it was easy to do, as working on one edge of the key only was needed to undo it.

Thanks for all your help.


Peter

funny that, i can get into and drive all my mates LRs on the key for mine but they cant get in mine.
bugged them to death when they would come home from work and there car was pointing a different way, they only found out when one of them locked the keys inside and i said hang on ill get em and got in with mine.
entertained me for a bit anyway!

Keys for early Series Landrovers, were like most cars around that time, only one set of tumblers and if you got a key nicely worn, it would open most locks, as there were only a few combinations.
Course when they were designed and run up in the Dales where I was brought up, nobody locked their car and often left the key in the ignition.

if you still need a key i can have one made and post it to you????

let me know [email protected]

does it work on any discovery??