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Locked Out works out of 21 Charlotte Drive in WN3, which puts every district of the Wigan borough inside a few minutes of the van, from Ashton in Makerfield and Orrell in the south to Standish and Shevington in the north.
This page covers the borough district by district. The whole of Wigan as a town is covered on the home page, and the service pages carry the prices and the process for each individual job.
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The Wigan borough runs across ten postcode districts and well over twenty named places. The table lists the districts the phone rings from most, with the postcode and the job that comes up there most often.
| District or area | Postcode | What comes up most there |
|---|---|---|
| Ashton in Makerfield | WN4 | Lost keys and spare keys, with a steady run of older vehicles still on a single key |
| Orrell and Far Moor | WN5 | Lockouts and spare keys, much of it on driveways rather than roadsides |
| Billinge and Chapel End | WN5 | Key programming and spares, and the odd ignition on an older vehicle |
| Hindley and Hindley Green | WN2 | Van keys and work vehicle jobs, booked early so the day is not lost |
| Standish and Shevington | WN6 | Keyless smart keys and newer vehicles, where spares cost the most to leave undone |
| Pemberton and Worsley Mesnes | WN5 | Lockouts and broken keys, often at a retail park or a supermarket car park |
| Platt Bridge and Abram | WN2 | Lost keys and ignition faults on higher mileage vehicles |
| Aspull and New Springs | WN2 | Spare keys and key programming, usually booked rather than urgent |
| Ince and Lower Ince | WN2 | Lockouts and van keys, with several trade yards in the area |
| Wigan town centre | WN1 | Station car parks and multi storey lockouts, where the keys are usually inside the vehicle |
Every district above is the same price, because no call out fee is added anywhere. The figure is set by the vehicle and the key type rather than the postcode, and the full list sits on the auto locksmith services and prices page.
Every Wigan job runs through the same four stages, and the first one happens on the phone before anybody drives anywhere.
The registration gives the make, the model year and the key system, so the right blank and the right programmer are in the van before Paul sets off rather than ordered afterwards.
The price is given on the phone, not after the van arrives. A lockout and a spare start from £80, a lost key from £135 and a new ignition barrel from £120, with no VAT added to any of them.
The work happens where the vehicle is parked, on a driveway in Standish or in a car park in Pemberton, because the cutting machine and the programmers travel in the van.
The new key and every key you already carry are tested on the doors, the boot and the ignition, so you know exactly which keys work before the job is signed off.
All six jobs below are carried out in Wigan at the same starting prices charged in Wigan, because no call out fee is added anywhere in the radius.
From £135
A new key created from the vehicle when no working key is left, and the lost key deleted so it cannot start the vehicle again.
From £80
A second key cut and programmed from the working key while you wait. The cheapest key anyone buys.
From £80
Entry with opening tools rather than force, whether the keys are on the seat, in the boot or still in the ignition.
From £120
A replacement barrel coded to the keys you already carry, so no new set of keys is needed.
By key type
Transponder, remote and keyless keys coded to the vehicle, and blades cut from a key, a code or the lock.
From £135
Van keys including the separate load area key, with early starts for vehicles that have to be working.
Being based in the borough is the practical difference on these jobs. A locksmith travelling in from another town has the same tools, but the Wigan districts are a few minutes away rather than an hour, and that shows on a morning when a work van has to be moving.
Ashton in Makerfield, Orrell and Billinge each used to have a page of their own on this site, and each one said the same thing with the place name swapped. They are districts of one borough served by one van from one address, so they belong on one page with their own detail rather than three pages with none.
Those three district pages stay live at their own addresses with a canonical pointing here, so no link anybody saved is broken and the borough is covered properly in one place instead of thinly in four.
Four details turn a call into a firm price in one conversation rather than three.
A photograph of the key settles anything the registration leaves open, and it costs nothing to send one before the visit.
Every service below is carried out in Wigan and has its own page with the process, the price factors and the questions drivers ask.
Wigan sits 0.8 miles from the Wigan base in a straight line. These are the towns either side of it.
All 25 towns and the districts inside them are listed on the areas we cover page.
Two guides cover the detail behind the price you are quoted.
Yes, and it is one of the busiest districts on the list. Ashton in Makerfield sits in WN4, a few minutes from the Charlotte Drive base, and the same starting prices apply there as anywhere else in the borough.
At 21 Charlotte Drive, Wigan, WN3 6BF. It is a working base rather than a shop counter, because every job is carried out at the vehicle, but it is the address the whole coverage radius is measured from.
A spare key or a lockout starts from £80, a lost key starts from £135 and a new ignition barrel starts from £120. No VAT is added to any of them, because Locked Out is not VAT registered. The exact figure moves with the make, the model year and the key type.
No. Standish, Shevington and Abram cost exactly what the town centre costs. There is no call out fee anywhere in the borough or in the wider 25 mile radius.
Usually, because the borough districts are the closest work on the map. What decides it is what is already booked into the day rather than the distance, and a realistic time is given on the phone rather than a promise.
Six in the morning until half past eight at night, seven days a week. The early start exists for work vehicles that have to be out before the first drop, which is a large part of the WN2 trade.
Yes. Keyless smart keys are supplied and programmed, and on some makes the module is read on the bench. They are the most expensive keys to replace, which is why a spare makes the biggest difference on the newer vehicles around Standish and Shevington.
Yes, before any key is cut. At the home address of the registered keeper the logbook alone is usually enough, and for a company vehicle a letter on company headed paper naming the driver is what is needed.
Anywhere in the Wigan Borough Today
Call with the postcode and the registration and you will have a price before the van moves.