THE KEY TO SUCCESS
There’s nothing worse than buying a Bus and being handed literally a handful of keys by the previous owner. Okay, maybe there is something worse: not being able to either lock or unlock your pride and joy, either because the keys don’t work properly, or because there’s something wrong with the latches themselves.
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve bought Buses or had a customer bring a Bus to me with a similar tale to tell. But I’m here to show you that getting your locks sorted out and onto one key really isn’t brain surgery. In fact, it can be a surprisingly therapeutic job to carry out on your Bus and one that means you won’t be fumbling for the right key the next time you exit your front door.
01 Work out a plan/order parts
The Bus that was used as an example in the pictures arrived with no door keys but had a genuine VW ignition key that wouldn’t turn in all the door locks. As VW originally supplied Bay Buses with one key to fit everything, I figured it had been changed and decided to re-key the door locks to suit this key.
More often than not though, when buying an import project Bus with no keys, or having lost keys to a Bus,
