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Locksmith Aurora
Mobile locksmith service for Aurora — emergency lockouts, rekeys after a move, car keys and commercial hardware, quoted on the phone before we drive.
Local knowledge
What A Locksmith Actually Finds In Aurora
Aurora has one of the widest ranges of housing age in York Region, and it shows up in the locks.
The heritage core around Yonge and Wellington has century houses with original frames and, frequently, original mortise hardware. The recurring job there is alignment: doors that have to be lifted, strikes that have been moved three times, and jambs painted so many times the reveal has changed. Fitting a modern deadbolt into a mortise pocket is the expensive mistake to avoid.
The post-war and 1970s neighbourhoods sit in the middle — solid doors, tired hardware, and a lot of side and garage entries still carrying the original builder knobset with no deadbolt beside it.
The newer subdivisions east and north are the smart-lock belt. Modern frames, modern deadbolts, and the two calls we get most: dead batteries in January and a lock left behind by the previous owner that nobody can administer.
Services in Aurora
Every Locksmith Service We Bring To Aurora
Residential, commercial, automotive and 24 hour emergency work, all mobile.
Emergency lockouts
Homes, cars and businesses at any hour, with non-destructive entry wherever the lock allows it. Emergency locksmith →
Rekeying and lock changes
After a move, a tenant change or a lost keyring. Cheaper than replacement and the old keys stop working. New-home rekey →
Car keys and fobs
Cut from the VIN and programmed at the vehicle, including all-keys-lost. Auto locksmith →
Commercial hardware
Master keys, exit devices, closers, storefront hardware and access control. Commercial locksmith →
Door and frame repair
Doors that will not close or lock, and forced-entry repair that leaves the frame stronger than before. Door repair →
High-security and smart locks
Anti-drill cylinders, restricted keys, keypads and smart deadbolts fitted properly. High-security locks →
Getting to you
Honest Drive Times To Aurora
Aurora is thirty to fifty minutes from King City depending on the route and the hour. Yonge Street through the middle of the day is the slow part; early morning and late evening are considerably quicker.
We quote the range for your specific part of Aurora rather than one number for the town. East of Bayview and up towards St John’s Sideroad is a different trip from the Yonge Street core.
For non-urgent work — a rekey, a lock upgrade, a spare car key — booking a daytime slot gets you a better rate and a scheduled window rather than an estimate.
What to have ready when you call
✓ Your street address or nearest crossroad.
✓ What is actually happening at the door or vehicle.
✓ For a car: year, make and model.
✓ Photo ID or proof of address — or tell us it is locked inside.
✓ Whether anything is still running or shut inside.
✓ Whether the door has been forced.
Two minutes on the phone turns a vague call into an accurate quote and a realistic window.
Moving in
The Aurora Rekey Nobody Regrets
Aurora turns over a lot of housing, and every sale carries the same invisible problem: nobody knows how many keys exist. Previous owners, their family, cleaners, dog walkers, the trades who prepared the house for market, the agent, and a lockbox a dozen buyer agents opened.
Rekeying changes the pins inside the cylinders you already own so every old key stops working. It costs a fraction of new hardware, keeps the finish you have, and takes under an hour for a typical house.
Ask for keyed alike while we are there, so the front, back, side and garage doors all run on one key. It is the change people notice every single day afterwards.
When you call
What Happens When An Aurora Address Calls Us
The first thing we establish is whether this is an emergency or an inconvenience, because the two get different treatment. Someone shut out of the house with a pot on the stove, a child locked in a car, or a business that cannot open goes to the front. A spare key you would like made next week does not, and it will be cheaper for exactly that reason.
The second thing you get is a number. Aurora is a drive we make constantly and the housing is familiar enough that we can quote the job properly on the phone. That number is what appears on the invoice. There is no callout fee that arrives separately, no minimum that gets mentioned once the van is in your driveway.
If the situation on site is genuinely different from the one described on the phone, the work stops and you approve the change first. That happens most often with locks somebody has already tried to force, and with vehicles where the owner believed a spare key existed and it turns out none does.
We ask for proof that the property or vehicle is yours before anything opens. A licence with the address, a piece of mail, a registration. It is a small friction that exists so that the same service cannot be used against you.
Opening is non-destructive wherever the hardware allows it. On standard residential locks it nearly always does, and on the older mortise hardware in Aurora’s heritage core it usually does too, because those cases are more forgiving than people assume.
When we leave, the door works properly — not just open, but latching, locking and closing the way it should. A lockout that ends with a door you now have to shoulder has not actually been fixed.
What we get called for
The Six Calls We Get Most From Aurora
House And Suite Lockouts
Front, back and side doors opened without damage, twenty-four hours a day, across every part of Aurora.
Move-In Rekey
Aurora turns over a lot of housing. Every exterior door rekeyed in one visit, keyed alike, for a fraction of the cost of new hardware.
Heritage Door Work
Mortise cases, rim locks and century frames in the Yonge and Wellington core, serviced and aligned rather than replaced.
Smart Lock Rescue
Dead batteries in January and previous owners still administering the lock. Both are quick when someone knows the platform.
Car Keys At The Curb
Transponder keys, remotes and proximity fobs programmed at the vehicle, including all-keys-lost from the VIN.
Commercial Hardware
Exit devices, closers, storefront cylinders and master key systems for Aurora businesses, done to fire code.
Local detail
Three Aurorae, Three Different Lock Problems
Aurora is really three towns wearing one name, and each one fails differently. The heritage core around Yonge and Wellington has century houses whose doors have moved with the building. Strikes have been relocated, jambs have been painted until the reveal changed, and original mortise hardware is still doing its job in doors that have been rehung more than once.
The expensive mistake in that part of town is conversion. A modern deadbolt cut into a door that already has a mortise pocket leaves a hollow through the stile and weakens the very thing you were trying to strengthen. The right move is almost always to keep the case, upgrade or rekey the cylinder inside it, and reinforce the frame where nobody can see it.
The post-war and 1970s neighbourhoods sit in the middle of the range. Solid doors, tired hardware, and a recurring pattern: a front door that has been upgraded at some point and a side or garage entry still carrying the original builder knobset with no deadbolt beside it. That side door is the one that matters, because it is the one nobody can see from the street.
The newer subdivisions east and north are the smart-lock belt. Modern frames, modern deadbolts, and two calls we get more than any other — a battery that died in a cold snap, and a lock whose administrator account still belongs to whoever sold you the house. Neither is a crisis, both need someone who has met the platform before.
What ties all three together is the frame. Whatever the age of the house, the strike plate is usually held by three-quarter-inch screws that reach trim and nothing else. Three-inch screws into the stud cost almost nothing and change the outcome of a forced entry more than any lock upgrade you can buy.
That is the advice we give in Aurora more than any other, and it is the advice that makes us the least money. It is still the right advice.
Before you call anyone
Four Things To Check Before You Call
Is another door open?
The back, side or garage door being unlocked resolves more lockouts than anything else. Worth a walk around the house before anyone pays for a callout.
Does someone nearby hold a key?
A neighbour, a relative, a cleaner. If a key is fifteen minutes away, that beats a visit and we will say so on the phone rather than drive out anyway.
Has the key snapped in the cylinder?
Do not push the fragment deeper and do not try to glue anything to it. Extraction is fast while the piece is intact and slow once it is not.
Is a person or pet shut inside?
If anyone or any animal is trapped and there is heat, cold or a medical concern, call 911 first. Tell us when you call and we treat it as the emergency it is.
Straight answers
What You Pay In Aurora, And Why
An Aurora lockout is quoted before we drive, and the quote holds at the door. Daytime, overnight and holiday rates are different from each other, and you are told which one you are getting before you agree to it.
Rekeying is priced per cylinder with the rate falling as the count rises. A typical Aurora house — front, back, side, garage — is a single visit of under an hour, keyed alike.
Heritage and mortise work is quoted after we see the door. Those cases vary too much for an honest phone number, and pretending otherwise would only mean revising it in front of you.
Car keys are priced by what the vehicle needs, not by what is convenient to charge. Cutting a spare from a working key and generating keys from a VIN with none present are different jobs, and we sort out which one applies before we come out.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does it take you to reach Aurora?
Thirty to fifty minutes from King City depending on the route and the time of day. We quote your specific part of Aurora rather than one number for the whole town.
Do you rekey after a house purchase in Aurora?
Constantly — it is the most common residential job we do. Every exterior door in one visit, keyed alike, for a fraction of the cost of new locks.
My Aurora heritage home has a mortise lock. Can it be saved?
Usually yes. Mortise cases are serviceable and the cylinder can often be rekeyed or swapped independently. Converting to a modern deadbolt leaves a void that weakens the door.
Can you program a car key in Aurora?
Yes, at the vehicle through the OBD port. Keys can also be cut from the VIN where no original exists.
Do you handle commercial doors in Aurora?
Yes — exit devices, closers, storefront hardware, master key systems and access control, all to fire-code requirements.
Are you available overnight in Aurora?
Yes, twenty-four hours including holidays, with the after-hours rate quoted before we dispatch.
Service area
We Come To You
We are a mobile service — there is no shop counter to drive to. King City is our base, and we cover King Township and northern York Region.
Not on the list? If you are anywhere in York Region, call and ask.
Locked Out? We Answer The Phone.
24/7 mobile locksmith service across King City, Nobleton, Schomberg and York Region. Real prices on the phone, a marked vehicle at your door, and a written invoice when we are done.