subject: Locksmith Toronto Guide On Key Replacement [print this page] One of the most famous and delicious types of food in the world is the frozen delight everyone knows as ice cream. It is widely considered to be one of the favorite types of food by virtually anyone of any age, and enjoyed throughout Toronto's humid summers and even in its cold winters. One of the key ingredients of why people love ice cream so much is because there are just so many flavors to choose from, with virtually thousands upon thousands of flavors suited to any and every person's particular taste buds. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life, and ice cream has tons of it.
Ice cream flavors vary from the usual (fruit flavors like strawberry), specialty (cookie dough and double brownie fudge), to the downright bizarre (beer and bacon). As with ice cream, there are also many different types of car keys and various methods of key replacement for each of them. Locksmith Toronto experts know them all, just like the flavors of ice cream.
Ice cream flavors evolved with the variety of people's tastes. The variety of car keys however, evolved hand in hand with developments in car technology and user functionality. The first kind of key was the metal key with a bit; this was first seen in ancient times and is still continued to be used today by locksmith Toronto experts in everything from door and drawer locks in homes to ignition systems and door locks in cars. This type of key has a blade edge, which is inserted into a keyhole to either engage or disengage a lock mechanism. This is also the most easy to replace key. Key replacement for this type of key would involve the use of a blank metal key, a key cutting machine, and an existing key pattern. The key cutting machine would essentially cut a new key out of the blank one using the existing key pattern as a guide.
The more car technology was developed, key technology advanced along with it. The next evolution of the metal key would be the keys that used electronics, such as transponder keys for cars and magnetic car keys for electronic access doors. Transponder keys for cars that locksmith Toronto professionals are familiar with make use of a built-in transponder chip that communicates with another chip built into the car itself; they allow a driver to remotely unlock a car's doors or start its engine from a distance. Key replacement for transponder keys, or any type of electronic key for that matter, would involve the use of specialized computers, blank keys, and the necessary software to program these blank keys with.
