Ok so im going to have to start this story back about a month ago when i went snowboarding with my friend, i wiped out real bad and i broke the key(i was ok) in half. i went to start my car and noticed it was broke and i only had a stub for a key. after panicing i found the other half in my pocket. i was over an hour away from home and didnt want to be towed. i put the broke half in the ignition and when i put my stub in too it starts. i took it to the dealer and he said 200+ for the part alone, i said NO. he said if i could get the broken piece out of my ignition then it would be cheaper

ok so now here we are yesterday and i went out to a party. got pretty liquored up and sometime in the night lost my keys. on the keychain i had my stub, my keyless entry, my room key, mailbox key, and some other crap. today i retraced my steps home last night to look for my keys. no luck. went back to the houses i was at yesterday, no luck. so until i find them im starting my car with a F-ing screwdriver. this happened, im hungover, and now i get to go to work...

Things could have been worse tho, im actually pretty lucky. if i didnt break my key snowboarding then i wouldnt have been able to start my car at all, and i would be walking to work. if i didnt buy keyless entry and bring my extra reciever to school, just in case, then i wouldnt be able to get into my car at all.

 

Wow, I've never heard of a key to snap like that, bend yes but snap, must of been a hard fall. Keep us updated on how you get your key out.

 

Yeah, holy hell how did you snap a key but not hurt yourself. Might take a little bit of work to get the little sucker out of the ignition.

 

LOL, hard luck dude, I hope everything works out for ya.
maybe next time your keychain should have some sort of thing that locks to your belt loop??

Sorry to laugh, but it's funny when someone falls and they land on their "keys"

funniest thing ever, see a dude fall(not that hard) but they are on the floor in pain, and you ask : "you okay?

Dude who fell: "yeah, ...but I fell on my keys"
LMAO!

 

yah it was crazy, i was like holy hell it didnt even hurt. no bruise or nothing. i wrecked pretty bad a few times that night, they had some good jumps. and it didnt even bend, at all. about how im trying to get the little piece out im thinking about trying a big magnet(not sure if the key is magnetic), one thing i was going to try, before i lost my key, was putting a very small amount of super glue on the edge of the key stump and inserting it into the ignition. i would rubberband it so that it is firmly against the inside piece. and leave it over night. hopefully the next morning it will pull it out... have to find my keys first...

 

Big magnet, ROFLOL. Amazing how crazy ideas come about when you are trying to figure out how to do something. That super glue idea wasn't that bad though.

 

Turn your car on the side and shake it... laugh.gif:

 

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LMAO!!!!

The hulk: "You would'nt like it, if I got angry."

Serioulsy though, yeah that super glue idea is a good one, just as long as you put only 2 dabs of glue on like this:
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Then you should be okay if you stick it in with firm pressure and wait 15 - 20 seconds.

I think more than 2 dabs you risk having glue contact inside the lock = bad.

 

Good one Java...

Yeah, I noticed my key is very maleable (means bendable for those verbally inclined). I noticed my key was a tiny bit bent (I skateboard and fall on em' all the time) so I started to bend it back straight, and it was so easy! I could've bent it all the way to 90 degrees it I wanted. Maybe it's because it's a copy, not the original...?

Big magnet? Put the magnet up to your stub first to see if it attracts it before you waste yout time with the broken piece. The glue is risky (last resort option) because I would imagine the glue would spread when the two pieces make contact and dry around the broken piece making it stuck even worse. Your best luck will be a paper clip or something of the like.

Do you know how a lock works? I actually learned how to pick locks (door locks not cars) from HowStuffWorks.com, I suggest you actually go there and learn how locks work before attempt glue. Seariously. Glue won't work becuase the ridges on the key push up different (matching) movable pieces inside the lock which allow the chamber to turn (because the ieces are no longer keeping the chamber from turning...they are "up" with the key in). That's why sometimes you can put a key in a lock but it won't turn (because one of the ridges on the key isn't long enough to puch up the piece so the chamber hit that piece when you try to turn the key).

Howstuffworks.com can explain it better (w/ pics) but super glue won't work because those ridges are stuck in there as they are pushing up those pieces inside the lock. It may just work though if a strong enough bond is made between the key pieces.

Other wise try a long skinny (atraightned paper clip) to push up the pieces inside the lock (on the top part of the key) then get another skinny metal stick with a curve at the end and wiggle it past the ridges and try and pull out piece.

otherwise, just fork out the dough (get other estimates first though).

 

maybe call a locksmith?