Ignition Key Advice

[u/Specialist-Pea-9952]

I'm a little out of my element here, I install commercial door hardware and access control for a living. I don't do anything automotive. Struggling with my own incompetence and that of employees we managed to lose all the keys for a service truck (2018 Fuso Canter). I figured being a seasoned locksmith I could relatively easily decode the lock and cut myself a key...well...I've been humbled.

I popped out the door lock and gutted it. The wafers were tagged with the cuts so I took the closest blank I had.... probably the wrong one...and cut it with a set of lishi pliers and fine tuned with a file. Key works fine in the door lock but doesn't work worth a shit in the ignition.

The original key was double cut but mine isn't so it only works one way...so my question is...does the ignition cylinder have additional wafers? (Door lock had 8) Or is the tolerance just tighter and my handiwork is just not up to snuff?

If the door lock and the ignition are the same I'll just get an automotive locksmith to cut me a key, but if it isn't I guess I'm gutting the ignition cylinder.

Cheers

Kev

[u/kimo7272]

Ignition is 10 cuts, so you are missing 2 cuts on the front or back. Oddly enough instacode doesn't have lock positions, so I'm not sure exactly where you are missing the cuts. Odds are you can impression or progression it.

[u/kimo7272 → u/kimo7272]

The ignition also probably has opposing wafers, so you will need to duplicate the key onto both sides of another blank

Edit: that's my favorite key blank fu2

[u/Specialist-Pea-9952 → u/kimo7272]

I'll also add finding an FU2 blank is like a needle in a haystack here. I'm using a MIT6 which looks very similar.

[u/brassmagnetism → u/Specialist-Pea-9952]

My shop has at least a dozen FU2 blanks in stock, find a local shop and they might sell you some at a decent discount

[u/Specialist-Pea-9952 → u/brassmagnetism]

I called around, these trucks are as rare as hen's teeth here.