Sandy Levine wrote:
how many different keys came with a 70 TR6? I am the original owner
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Sandy
The answer is fairly simple. Dockers, transit damage and general theft. We went
through
the replacement keys thread about a year ago (?) and I'd guess the ignition key
got lost
or someone nicked the switch/lock barrel so a new one was fitted to the car on
arrival.
If your car is a true 1970 model it ought to have a steering lock, so it would
have come
with three keys.
There were over 3000 combinations of key coding in those days and it would be
improbable
the import centre had an identical combo for your car.
The handbook is an oddball as I see Andy Mace suggested you might have had a UK
version.
If that was the case, it would have been of little use to you as it would have
related
only to the injection engine which your car wouldn't have had. There were
separate
handbooks for TR6's depending on the destination market. It's my guess your car
never had
a document wallet ex-factory - fairly unlikely or it got lost (more likely) and
the import
centre/dealer supplied the nearest one they had. I think the 1969 TR6 was
fitted with a
conventional ignition switch and no steering lock but I could be wrong. These
had one key
for the ignition and both doors with another for the boot and glove box.
Took you some time to getting around to reading the handbook, didn't it? BTW,
take out
your front and rear lamp lenses and see if the spare set of keys are still
there. That's
where they were always put. If they've gone, then you'll know the dockers
pinched those
as well or they never got replaced when the front / rear end transit damage was
repaired.
Jonmac
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