key question

I bought my bike last winter, it came with 3 keys - 2 work the ignition, the other works the gascap and seat lock. Did the bike come with 2 keys (hard to believe) or was the ignition replaced on my bike for some reason? anyone know how hard it would be to re-key the igintion?

 

Bought my new and it only came with 2 keys. Both work everything.

 

That's what I assumed. I wonder if my bike was stolen...

 

Maybe it was recovered and the ignition had to be changed due to the thief ruining the stock ignition. Definitely worth looking into...and info the seller should have provided.

 

The title is not salvage titled. I bought the bike under bizarre circumstances. To make a long story short the "owner" was a different person (and unnavailable) than the person on the title and who I bought it from, an old lady who didnt know a VFR from a moped. Also, the old lady/scumbag who decided not to keep up payments were the second owners.

 

yeah you gotta be careful when buyin stuff man. my uncle just bought a v-strom last week and just found out that the police were loking for that bike! he thought he was in trouble! haha! last i heard they confiscated the bike. i havent talked to him in a while should call him and see what happened!

 

On the older bikes, the ignition, tank and helmet lock only used one side of the key. Honda cut both sides the same for convenience. You can have a blank cut one side to one key - and the other side cut to the other key. Should only cost you about $6 to find out...

 

that's a very creative suggestion, thanks.

 

If you've taken a lock apart it's really easy. You can remove the ignition, take the cylinder out, rearrange the tumblers until they are as close to correct as possible, file the ones that are too long, put it back together.

Or you can have the 2 key sides cut for the 2 different keys.