I saw something like this years ago… it was a spare key for your car that was made of plastic and in a credit card shaped rectangle so you could keep it in your wallet. Not durable by any means, but good enough to get you into your car if you lock your keys inside.
The words involved are all too common for my Googling to have been very effective… has anyone seen these or know where I can get one?
Opal, when I bought my Saturn, it came with it. I liked it so much, I had one made for my wife’s Honda. As I recall, I had it made at a locksmith’s, rather than a hardware store.
I don’t think they’re all that uncommon, it’s just that lately, everyone has gone to the “no training, skills, or knowledge required” style of key duplicating - where you put a particular cartridge and blank in a machine and it does the rest.
Search out any locksmith or find an Ace hardware that still cuts keys by hand, and they’ll almost certainly have what you are looking for.
Thanks! I’ll check one out.
When I became a member of the American Automobile Association (AAA), I received a credit card-sized plastic key.
(AAA may go by other names in other states.)
I got mine from AAA, free as a member, a couple bucks for non-members. I keep it in my wallet, and it has saved my butt on many, many occasions.
No fair! I didn’t get one when I joined AAA a couple of months ago (when my car died on the side of the interstate at 4am and I decided the next day that just maybe I should have had some sort of way to handle situations like that, especially living in a city where I don’t know anyone!)
My car key has a chip in it, so I had the dealer make me one without a chip that is always on me so if I lock the key in the car I can use the non chip key to open the door at least.