- Calif. license LCO 6801
- Open now · 24 hrs
- LA + Orange County
Locked out at any hour. You get the price before we drive.
Tell us what happened and you hear a firm total on the phone — before a van moves. No service-call fee, no "the technician will assess it," and no bigger number when we arrive.
What happens when you call
Usually about a minute, start to finish.
What we do
Five jobs, all day and most nights.
Auto Locksmith
Car keys, fobs, ignitions
How it works → 02Residential Locksmith
Homes, apartments, rekeys
How it works → 03Commercial Locksmith
Offices, storefronts, master keys
How it works → 04Emergency Locksmith
24/7 lockouts
How it works → 05Safe Service
Opening, servicing, combinations
How it works → 06Car keys, by make
39 makes, each with its own key generations and what to tell us on the phone.
Find your make →Why the quote matters more than the ad
Los Angeles has a locksmith problem. We built the way we quote around it.
The FTC and the California Attorney General both list this region as a hotspot for locksmith fraud. The pattern never changes: an ad promising a $29 service call, a technician who is not the company you phoned, a sudden announcement that your lock is "high security" and has to be drilled, and a final bill many times the quote.
It works because the real price never gets committed to until you are standing in a doorway with no leverage. So we commit to it on the phone instead — a firm total for the finished job, said out loud before a van moves, and held to when we arrive.
Our specialty
Car keys, quoted by what the key is — not what the car is worth.
A key's price comes down to three things: how the blade is cut, what chip is inside it, and how the vehicle lets that chip be registered. None of it depends on your car's value. Anyone pricing off the badge is pricing off your wallet.
- Toyota keys
- Honda keys
- Ford keys
- Chevrolet keys
- Nissan keys
- BMW keys
- Mercedes-Benz keys
- Hyundai keys
- Kia keys
- Jeep keys
- Lexus keys
- Dodge keys
A free tip that costs us money: on a great many Fords, if you already have two working keys you can program a third yourself from the driver's seat — no locksmith needed. Ask us on the phone. If your vehicle supports it, we will tell you how instead of charging you.
How a call goes
Four steps, no surprises in any of them.
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You call and describe the problem
A person answers, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not a dispatcher in another state selling your job to whoever bids lowest.
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We quote a firm total and a real arrival window
Including the after-hours surcharge if it is 2am. You hear that number then, not when we hand you the bill.
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We arrive, show ID and license, and check yours
You should see license LCO 6801. We should see proof the property or vehicle is yours. Both directions, every time.
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We do the job for the price we quoted
Non-destructive methods first. If it turns out to be genuinely different from what you described, we stop and re-quote before touching anything.
Where we work
Los Angeles, 20 miles around it, and Orange County.
Each area page is written for that area — the housing stock, the parking, the hardware we actually find on those doors. Not one template with the city name swapped in.
- Hollywood
- Beverly Hills
- Santa Monica
- Glendale
- Pasadena
- Burbank
- Inglewood
- Torrance
- Downey
- Whittier
- Compton
- Hawthorne
- Culver City
- West Hollywood
- Downtown Los Angeles
- Koreatown
- Silver Lake
- Highland Park
- Echo Park
- Studio City
- Sherman Oaks
- North Hollywood
- Van Nuys
- Encino
Orange County
Questions people actually ask.
How much will it cost?
Call and you will have a firm number in about a minute — for the completed job, including any after-hours surcharge. We quote on the phone rather than printing a price list because what we charge depends on the actual lock on your door or the actual key your car takes, and a figure broad enough to cover everybody would tell you nothing. What we will commit to is this: the number you agree to on the call is the number on the invoice.
Do you charge a call-out fee on top of the price?
No. The quote covers the completed job. If we arrive and it genuinely turns out to be different from what you described, we stop and re-quote before doing any work — you are never handed a bigger number at the end.
Will you drill my lock?
Only as a last resort, and never without telling you first. Almost every residential lock opens without damage in the hands of someone who knows what they are doing. Drilling means you also buy new hardware, which is exactly why the bait-and-switch operators reach for it in the first sixty seconds. If anyone does that at your door, stop the job and send them away.
How fast can you actually get here?
It depends entirely on where you are and what the traffic is doing, and any locksmith quoting a flat fifteen minutes across a 500-square-mile city is guessing. Tell us your cross streets and we will tell you where the nearest van is and give you a real window. Sometimes that is fifteen minutes. On the 405 at 6pm it is not.
Are you actually licensed?
Yes — California license LCO 6801, issued by the California Bureau of Security & Investigative Services. You can look it up yourself, and we would rather you did. A locksmith who will not give you a license number over the phone is telling you something.
What do you need from me before you open a lock?
Proof the property or vehicle is yours — ID matching the address, a lease, registration or insurance in your name. We ask every single time, on every job. It is the line between a locksmith and a burglary service, and any company that skips it should worry you.
Right now, at any hour
Get your price before we drive out
Tell us what happened and where you are. You get a firm total on the phone — not a "service call fee" and a surprise at your door.