Peter Pledger
New Member
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
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