Key snapped off in your car door, house lock, or ignition in Vancouver? We extract broken keys professionally — no damage to your lock.
A key can break inside a lock at any time — most often when the lock is stiff, when the key is old and worn, or when too much force is applied. Whether it has happened in your car door, your home's front door, a padlock, or inside the ignition cylinder — the result is the same: you are stuck, and the broken piece is preventing you from using the lock at all.
The wrong response is to try to extract the broken key yourself using tweezers, a bobby pin, or a screwdriver. These improvised approaches almost always push the broken piece deeper into the cylinder, scratch and damage the internal pins, or make the extraction significantly more difficult and expensive. Professional extraction requires specialized tools — key extractors, broken key pullers, and cylinder alignment tools — that are designed for exactly this situation.
Houdini Locksmith performs broken key extraction across Vancouver, Burnaby, and the Lower Mainland using professional tools that remove the broken piece without drilling the cylinder and without damaging the internal pin mechanism. After extraction, we assess whether the lock cylinder itself was damaged during the break, and whether a new key can simply be cut or whether any further service is needed. In most cases we can cut a replacement key at the same visit.
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Houdini Locksmith is a fully mobile locksmith service serving Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver, Coquitlam, Richmond, and the surrounding Lower Mainland. Car lockouts, lost car keys, house lockouts, lock changes, rekeying, commercial security — we dispatch immediately and arrive fully equipped. Available 24/7. Call (236) 886-6269.