"Howard" <howardh@nospam-cybrstar.com> wrote in
news:ldgJd.94738$zy6.32634@bignews5.bellsouth.net:

> Your car is at least 14 years old
> now. Even a key cylinder wears.



Very true, but sometimes it is...just the key.

I was starting to have problems in my '91 where you had to hold the key
just so to get the ignition and door locks to work, and I was starting to
think my locks were finally wearing out.

Luckily, I had been using a hardware-store key copy the whole time, so my
original keys were unused. Got a new hardware-store copy made (for $3) from
one of the originals, and I was astonished to find that the locks worked
about as close to as-new as I'd ever need them to be.

If there's any wear in the locks themselves, it's minimal. They feel almost
the same as the ones in my wife's '99 Tercel with 55K miles on it.

All my locks get regular dousings with Rust Check, which may have helped
longevity.


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