Can a locksmith open a car with a VIN number???

All cars have a VIN number.

SO the answer is yes

maybe call one and find out

Yes. A locksmith can call and get the key codes from the manufacture. They do it everyday. However, I believe that their is a verification process as to the owners private data involved and its not just a matter of calling up and getting them without that data…

no

I don’t think anyone can open a car that way. Even with OnStar, you need to provide some “secret” information to prove who you are if you call to say you were locked out. Car thieves don’t need locksmiths. If they want your car bad enough, they’ll find a way.

most locksmiths use the vin as a guide to determine the specs on that vehicle. It also is used to insure that you own the vehicle

I know that you do not want car dealer info but here it is. I locked my truck keys in my dodge ram 1500 a while back. I called the locksmith that is right across the street from me and they quoted 85 dollars to me. Yeah right. I called the dodge dealership right down the street from me, gave them my VIN # and they made me 2 keys for only 4 dollars!!!! Id go with the dealership. good luck

For whatever reason, locksmiths are eminently trustworthy.

Any locksmith could make a key for just about any lock, yet people lock their houses, cars, boats and trailers all the time and never fear a locksmith gone bad.

Think about it–wouldn’t your ‘bad’ locksmith do a lot better stealing really expensive items instead of somebody’s used car?

Lock smith is bonded and criminal back ground searched. No smith would ruin a very lukerative career to play thief…
Most smith can open just about everything–don’t need a VIN

If he or she has the corresponding code. You see, there is a machine that is used to cut keys by hand. You punch in the series of numbers and presto…..a new key. Yes, if they have the machine, no if they don’t.
Good Luck, Rick

you don’t need a locksmith to do that, it’s easy, any kind of car is easy to open, car in my town are stolen everyday, 400 were stolen in just a weekend, people who steal figure out the way to do it by themselves

yes it is possible depending on what kind of vehicle as long as long as i has original lock set. legal/registered owner can obtain key code from dealership (usually original selling dealership) locksmith can cut a key to that code without the vehicle even being there.

Probably so…im almost certain they can.
Years ago….probably around 15 years ago i had a newer Jeep truck. Lost one set of keys, and as fate would have it before i could buy the second set i actually broke the other key off in the door.
I dont know what to do, i go to the dealer in my parents car. They had me bring in some numbers (I think it was the VIN number and they made me new keys. Thus i imagine if they could do it a locksmith could as well.
But…i highly doubt thats what happened with your friends vehicle. Cars are stolen everyday. 99% of the time they are simply hotwired. That would be easier than conspiring with a locksmith to make keys for you.