Reply to post: Re: WTF?

84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

Ben Tasker

Re: WTF?

> Is it a keyed start,

Asking the wrong question.

You want to know if it's a keyed start *and* if the keys are actually unique...

A decade old, but, it used to be an issue: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/daveharvey/2010/05/one_key_fits_all_tractor_polic.html

In 2003, JCB were (one of?) the first in the industry to announce they'd be using unique keys, rather than a one-key-for-all.

I don't know about their dozers, but in 2019, Caterpillar were still selling common keyed padlocks. Amazon has this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Replacement-SP8500-Key-Caterpillar-Excavators/dp/B0051OF2Y4 which suggests that there's some recent kit that uses a common key

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