Volvo 240 Lost Key

[Mankins]

Hi-

This is a story with two happy endings. I had "lost" the key to my 1988 240 wagon (245, I guess). I had ordered keys from the Mercedes dealer (for an old Mercedes) in the past and figured I'd start at the Volvo dealer. So I drive to the dealer in my old Mercedes with my title to the Volvo and my ID. I go to the parts dept. and the parts guy looks over my info, goes to the back, grabs a key blank, a notebook and a manual key cutter. He looks up the the numbers, dials them in one at a time and squeezes the tool and cuts out a chunk of the key each time. It was really impressive and really old-fashioned. I loved it! At $20, it wasn't cheap, but that was the difference between a running car and a non-running car. Happy ending one complete.

Once I paid up and complemented their work, I went back to my old Mercedes and decided that I better put this key in a safe spot since I had "lost" the key before. Hey, no better place than the glove box, so I open it, look in, and put the new key right next to the "lost" keys. After a great laugh at my serendipity and stupidity, I enjoyed the second happy ending and just looked at it as a nice extra and original looking key.

So, if you lose your key, take your info and go to your local Volvo dealership and hopefully they'll treat you as well as my local one did.

Phil.

[billofdurham]

Welcome to Matthew's Volvo Site.

Those were the days when the Volvo dealer could cut any key from his factory supplied chart. Nowadays, with electronics being the fashion, you can multiply that $20 by quite a few, go to the bank, negotiate a loan and you will have a spare key.

Keeping the Volvo key in the glove box is a good theft deterrent. Any car thief would try for hours to get the Mercedes started with that one.

Bill.