O.K. Barton ;
Go get a cheap spare outside door handle and take the lock cylinder out of it , take that and your ignition key to the local locksmith and ask him to make the cylinder match they key ~ this should be $40 if he's honest , if he hesitates in any way , leave and find another locksmith .
This is the easy way IMO , gets you back to square one where you belong as the ign. key still matches the VIN.....
I had this done to the trunk lock of my old red Coupe when the original one died .
I need to have it done to my other red Coupe's trunk lock as it's also dying and hard to get the key to unlock it .
BTW :I had *no* trouble understanding your initial request for matching door handles & trunk lock with key...
-Nate
Barton wrote:
>
> oops - I see how this thread needs some more context to execute..
>
> so....the car came with the following key/lock "features"..
>
> 2x ignition keys that start the car and match the vin of the car it starts
>
> 2x trunk keys that fit the rear trunk and is my only means of locking anything
> valuable in the car at present and may or may not match the VIN of Sylvia
> but probably not and only the PO or the PPO (or their mechanic(s) might know).
>
> 1x drvr/pax door key and 2x salvage locks/tumblers installed by PO who
> doesn't know VIN ofthe car those locks
>
> As sold, the car came to me w/ two rings of keys:
>
> Ring 1: Ignition key #1 + the drv/pax door key + trunk key #1
>
> Ring 2: Ignition key #2 + trunk key #2
>
> Rumored to be lost forever in the den of inequity that is my garage and first
> floor basement is Ring 1, with now no way to lock the doors and no VIN to tell
> Mercedes how to recut the keys for that lock. Prevailing domestic theory is that
> the keys somehow fell into the black hole from which the gear selector emanates
> and they are slowly settling their way into the bowels of the car. If anyone has
> lost something in there before and knows how to retrieve it, or even how big that
> space is, please expound forthwith. I have proved with bright light and see nothing
> but really long for one of those fiber optic cameras on a flexistick for just such an occasion.
>
> Previous queries to this forum have indicated that in the case of Mercedes
> keys, unless you either have a copy of the key or the VIN # of the car the
> key was delivered with, one is SOL w/r/t to getting a key cut for that lock
> for a fair buck (given any motivated locksmith could probably cut a key
> given full access to the tumbler/mechanism).
>
> As before, if you gots 'em, I need 'em.
>
> 1984 300SD
> 2x lock cylinders (drvr/pax doors)
> 1x working (ideally original) matching key
>
> cheers,
>
> -Barton
>
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