Car Lockout in Redwood City
Keys on the seat, in the trunk or in a coat inside the car, opened at the curb or in the garage, $99 to $169.
$99–$169
Typical price
21 min
Avg. arrival
24/7
Availability
Redwood City parks in structures. The Jefferson and Marshall garages downtown after a show at the Fox. The Kaiser lots at shift change. The Caltrain lot at Sequoia Station after the last train south. A campus deck on Seaport Blvd with the fob on the passenger seat and the badge on the same ring. Sequoia Lock & Key opens cars in all of them, at any hour, at a figure settled on the call and not reopened at the car.
The method is an inflatable wedge in the top corner of the door, pumped until the gap is a few millimeters, then a long reach tool guided to the unlock button or the inside handle. The load goes into the door frame, not the paint, and the glass is never involved. Electric and hybrid cars, which the Shores and the Seaport campuses have in quantity, add one habit: some relock themselves the moment the fob is outside the cabin. The year, make and model settle the angle of reach, so they are part of the call. A child, a pet or medication inside puts the job ahead of every other. Registration or an insurance card is compared with your ID before the door swings.
Car lockouts run $99 to $169. A common sedan, crossover or hybrid in daylight is $99, and the $89 service call is already inside that. Trunk-only access, a car that relocks itself with the fob inside, or a European door with a tight double seal reaches $169. Between 8pm and midnight the $99 opening reads $149; between midnight and 7am it reads $184. There is no line for tools, for mileage, or for which deck you are on.
Tell us the car: year, make, model, and where it sits, down to the level and the bay if it is in a structure. Hear the figure read back on the same call. Watch it opened: the ownership check, the wedge, the reach, and a look inside to confirm the key really is there before the tools go away. Pay what was read at the curb, card or tap, receipt by email before you pull out. If the key turns out to be lost rather than shut in, a replacement is quoted as a separate line and the choice stays yours.
“Keys locked in my Honda in the Kaiser visitor lot with my father inside for an appointment. The call gave me $129 and told me which lot entrance the van would use. Text with a name, seventeen minutes, and the door was open in about two more with an air wedge and a long reach tool, paint untouched. $129. I was back upstairs before my father was called in.”
Every job is priced from the list below. The figure is settled on the call, before the van turns its own key, and the receipt shows the same figure.
- Daytime (7am–8pm)standard rates
- Evening (8pm–12am)+$50
- Overnight (12am–7am)+$85
FAQ
Car Lockout: quick answers
I am on level four of the Jefferson garage after a show and the stairwell door wants a ticket.+
Text the level, the row and the space number, then walk down to the pedestrian entrance to meet the van. Nobody can search four decks for a grey Prius. The downtown garages, the Kaiser lots and the Seaport campus decks are ordinary stops at every hour.
It is an EV that locked with the fob inside. Does that change the figure?+
It leans toward the top of the range. The door has to be held open long enough to reach the fob before the car decides to lock again, which takes a steadier hand than a plain opening. Nothing under the trim is different. With the fob back in your pocket the car forgets the whole episode.
Keys in the trunk, hatch closed, Sequoia Station lot near midnight.+
The cabin is opened first; nearly every car then releases the hatch from a button inside or from the fob. On the few that do not, the technician goes through the rear seat pass-through or works the trunk cylinder, and says which of the two it will be first. Near midnight the evening figure applies and is already inside what was read back.
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One call, one figure, settled before the van turns the key
Calls answered 24/7 for Redwood City and the towns beside it. One figure for the visit, the labor and the parts, with the $89 service call inside it, and a receipt that matches it line for line.