Missing passenger key lock

Throwing my $.02 in here -
Unless you have a Smartkey, you still need to pull the key out to start the truck, so I don't really see how it's that much easier to use the fob . . .

I carry the Smartkey fob for my wife's CR-V on my keyring which has my Tacoma key, housekey, work key, and a couple others. Kinda have to carry the Honda fob, and really don't want to have a second one tying up space in my pocket.
However, after 10-1/2 years the key I've been carrying in my pocket has worn enough that it's sometimes a bit iffy in the door lock - seems to still be ok in the ignition.
I've tried a couple times over the years to have a hardware store cut new keys (using the other key that my wife keeps, which isn't worn at all) but neither one could cut them accurately enough to get them to work. They weren't excited about continuing to scrap out chip key blanks, so I gave up.
I sometimes will throw the fob in my pocket if I'm somewhere that I really need to lock the door, just in case my physical key won't work.

I was really glad that my '90 Toyota pickup had a lock on the passenger side the night that I came out of a restaurant in Boston to find that someone had apparently tried to jimmy the drivers side lock with a screwdriver.

 

^You guys talk about smart key as if it's some newfangled technology, when the rest of the world had already moved on from keys and fobs...



Meanwhile the Land Cruiser 300-series station wagon got fingerprint readers in the door handles, so the seats and steering column automatically adjust to individual presets:

 

The scenario I was talking about is one in which I don’t have a passenger side keyed entry. The question was posed, what if you need to get into the passenger side quickly and you don’t have a keyed door? My answer was, I use my fob.

Even if I had a keyed lock on the passenger side I would never use it. I park my truck such that the passenger side is closest to the front door. When I walk out the door I hit the fob, unlock the truck, and the family gets in. It would be so much more awkward to walk up to the truck, unlock it with the key, and then step aside so my wife could get in.

When I’m driving the truck alone, I STILL don’t use the lock. Why would I? I hit the fob as I’m walking up to the car (like everyone in the world does) and then it’s unlocked when I walk up and I can immediately get in. I’m switching from the fob to the key in my hand as I’m approaching the door. First world problems, but it would be annoying and slow me down if I had to insert the key to unlock the door. Of course there are scenarios as previously described where one might need to use the key or might prefer to use the key. Have never encountered those scenarios myself.

I mean, the fob and the key are on the same damn split ring. How hard could it possibly be to switch from one to the other? Please don’t tell me you carry them separately.

 

Why not? Remo

Dunno about you, but I have had smart/chipped keys (and FOBs) in vehicles I have owned since at least Model Year 1998: 26 years.

Maybe that's the: "New Newfangled"

 

^Over the past 15 years or so, "smart key" means proximity key system - touch the handle to unlock, press the Start button to start the engine; the fob stays in your pocket.