How heavy is your keyring?

[WPOZZZ]

Just my car key. The old cars have ignition switches, newer ones are puch button. The houses have electronic locks.

[id10t]

3 keys no remotes etc. Think the length of knotted 550 cord weighs more than the keys on it

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera

The puffball makes it easy to find my car key in my purse.

That's a great idea! I think I'll try that.

[id10t]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

Not heavy at all. I mostly keep one car key per key ring.

I have 2 ignition keys and a door key on my 356 coupe key ring, and my Speedster's key and the VW's key on my VW key ring. I don't know how either of them came about - it happened a long time ago.

Looks like you are missing a couple of 356 keys....

Here's mine - solomon bar knot is my daily wear - truck key, house key and house key for mom's place, grabbed the 356 keys out of the safe. 356 has glove box key, antenna key, transmission lock, ignition, and doors. FWIW, original fob and keys dad got when he bought the car new.

[911Ghia]

In the 60’s the good ole boys I worked with said….car key is just your car key and never leave stuff on your dashboard.

Rich

[gacook]

Just the fob, nothing else. Office and house are both digital or biometric entry, so no key required.

[GH85Carrera]

The ignition lock on my El Camino was totally worn out after 350,000 miles. For a few years I could pull the key out while the engine was running, and finally it got to the point it did not really need a key to start. I guess the engineers did not expect some fool to drive it 380,000 miles.

Anyway, I found a new in the box, OEM ignition key, that used a round key like for the doors. I had it re-keyed by a locksmith to be the same as my door key. So after 32 years of carrying two keys I now have just one.



The keys were so worn out that to old ignition key broke in half when I dropped it.
So now I just have the round key to open the doors and to start the car. I never figured out what stupid reason they had for using two keys. That is fixed.

It is a real mouse trap pain in the butt to take apart that steering column with the tilt wheel but changing out the lock was a real improvement in the use of the car.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by id10t

Looks like you are missing a couple of 356 keys....

Here's mine - solomon bar knot is my daily wear - truck key, house key and house key for mom's place, grabbed the 356 keys out of the safe. 356 has glove box key, antenna key, transmission lock, ignition, and doors. FWIW, original fob and keys dad got when he bought the car new.

Cool, that you've got the original keys, but sheesh, why so many!?! "antenna key" and "transmission lock" - were those original? And the doors, glove box and ignition were all different?

I made a key fob like that for the missus. It's a solomon bar knot that ends in a small monkey fist.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The ignition lock on my El Camino was totally worn out after 350,000 miles. For a few years I could pull the key out while the engine was running, and finally it got to the point it did not really need a key to start. I guess the engineers did not expect some fool to drive it 380,000 miles.

Anyway, I found a new in the box, OEM ignition key, that used a round key like for the doors. I had it re-keyed by a locksmith to be the same as my door key. So after 32 years of carrying two keys I now have just one.



The keys were so worn out that to old ignition key broke in half when I dropped it.
So now I just have the round key to open the doors and to start the car. I never figured out what stupid reason they had for using two keys. That is fixed.

It is a real mouse trap pain in the butt to take apart that steering column with the tilt wheel but changing out the lock was a real improvement in the use of the car.

Those keys remind me of some of the pics that I've seen on the Internet of things that get used a lot. A set of highly defined footprints on some wood in a temple where a monk stood every day for prayers, stone steps in a building with big depressions worn into them, a Roman road with cart wheel tracks worn into the stone, a spoon worn flat on an angle due to a grandparent using that spoon to stir stuff for many, many years.

Amazing stuff!

[stevej37]

Don't have a keyring. I just carry a fob or a single key for the other cars. The keys remain in the ignitions when home in the garage.

[id10t]

Originally Posted by masraum

Cool, that you've got the original keys, but sheesh, why so many!?! "antenna key" and "transmission lock" - were those original? And the doors, glove box and ignition were all different?

I made a key fob like that for the missus. It's a solomon bar knot that ends in a small monkey fist.

Locking glove box and the trans lock was standard on all T6 cars (last half of the Bs and all C/SC) and the retractable/lockable antenna was a factory option, though there is no radio (I have the Blaupunkt from the '63 dad had that was totaled, which lead to buying the '65 - last one for sale new in the SE USA) or speakers installed. It isn't really a lock, more like a weird screw head, the first bit is threaded in and you need the antenna key to turn it.

[Steve Carlton]

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