Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Car keys dropped down drain

27 replies

Nominative · 11/04/2025 22:01

AIBU to ask for ideas on this? DSis has dropped her car keys down a drain - she could see them stuck in the mud but too far down to reach them. Sod's law, she's looked everywhere for the spare and can't find it. She's been quoted £600 by an auto locksmith to replace the keys (apparently it would be less if she could wait, but she can't really) and is going to try the manufacturers. She was told that even if she could retrieve the dropped key it almost certainly wouldn't work again - it's the remote electronic type. Does anyone have any experience of whether that's correct? Or have any ideas about any cheaper way to resolve the problem?

OP posts:
Poonu · 11/04/2025 22:10

That is one of my nightmares.
Sorry that's not helpful

Solmum1964 · 11/04/2025 22:07

Magnet on string to retrieve them and clean off.
I managed to machine wash a car key and it still worked so I wouldn't rule out them working just yet!

Swipe left for the next trending thread