LocksmithSouthern Suburbs
One number for the whole Southern Suburbs, from Mowbray down to Diep River. A marked van from the nearest branch in the region, and the price agreed before anybody drives out.
- One number for the whole region, answered by our own team
- Open 24 hours, seven days, including public holidays
- PSiRA registered and insurance approved
- 5.0 from more than 5,000 Google reviews
Locksmiths across the Southern Suburbs
Doors, cars, locks, keys and safes, from Mowbray to Diep River.
073 100 3033 is the Southern Suburbs line. It is one number for a whole region rather than for a single high street, which is the useful thing about it: you do not have to work out whether your address counts as Claremont or Harfield, or whether Plumstead is somebody else’s patch, before you can phone. Say where you are and the job goes to the nearest AAA van in the region.
That region is not one kind of place, and the work reflects it. There are Victorian semis in Harfield and Wynberg with original hardware still in the doors. There are large older houses in Newlands, Bishopscourt and Claremont Upper where the answer is usually a high security cylinder and a keyed alike set across gate, garage and front door. There are blocks of flats along the Main Road corridor with caretaker keys and sectional title schemes behind them. There is student accommodation around Rondebosch and Mowbray that changes hands every year. And there is retail and office work through Cavendish, Kenilworth Centre, Access Park and Wynberg village.
AAA has branch premises inside this region, which is why a Southern Suburbs callout is a short run rather than a trip across the city. Tell us the suburb and the street and you will be told honestly how long the van will be.
Call 073 100 3033
Services we do across the Southern Suburbs
Everything below is work our vans do throughout this region. Follow a link for the detail, or phone the Southern Suburbs line and describe what has happened.
What happens when you call the Southern Suburbs line
The line needs three things to give you a real arrival time: where you are, what has happened, and what you are locked out of.
- 01Give us the suburb and the street
Claremont, Newlands, Rondebosch, Wynberg, Kenilworth, Plumstead, Diep River or anywhere between them. The suburb decides which van; the street decides the time.
- 02Describe the lock or the car
A gate, a front door, a safe or a vehicle. For a car we need the make, model and year before the van leaves.
- 03You get the price first
The full amount is agreed on the call. Nobody starts work on a number you have not heard.
- 04The nearest van comes to you
A marked AAA vehicle and a locksmith who can identify himself. The work is tested with you before we leave.
Why one number for the whole region
You should not have to know which suburb you are technically in before you can phone a locksmith.
Search "locksmith near me" from anywhere in the Southern Suburbs and some of what comes back is a national number wearing a local name. The call is answered somewhere else, the job is sold on, and the person who arrives is a stranger to both you and the business you thought you phoned. The defence is simple: phone a business with premises in the region and a review history you can read before you dial.
073 100 3033 is that number for this region. It exists because the Southern Suburbs is a band of suburbs that run into each other rather than a single town — the boundary between Claremont and Harfield, or Kenilworth and Wynberg, is a thing estate agents argue about and nobody standing outside a locked door should have to think about. One line covers the lot, and the job goes to whichever of our vans is closest to your address at that moment.
It also means the dispatch is genuinely local. AAA has branch premises inside this region rather than a call centre pointed at it, so a callout to Rondebosch or Plumstead is a short run and the arrival time you are quoted is one taken from where a van actually is. The people answering know what the M3 and the Main Road do at five, know which blocks along the corridor run a caretaker key, and will tell you plainly if the honest answer to "how long" is longer than you were hoping.
- Region
- Southern Suburbs, Cape Town
- Phone
- 073 100 3033
- Hours
- 24 hours, 7 days
- PSiRA
- Registered, no. 1827493
A real Cape Town business, not a call centre
AAA Locksmiths has branch premises, marked vehicles, registered technicians and a review history you can read before you phone. All of it is checkable, which is the point.
- PSiRA registered, number 1827493, verifiable on the PSiRA register
- Marked vehicles and technicians who identify themselves on arrival
- 5.0 average across more than 5,000 Google reviews
- Insurance approved work and a written price before anybody starts
Questions from across the region
The things people ask the Southern Suburbs line before they agree to a callout. If yours is not here, ask it on the phone.
Which suburbs does 073 100 3033 actually cover?
The whole band: Mowbray, Rosebank, Rondebosch, Newlands, Claremont, Harfield, Kenilworth, Wynberg, Plumstead, Bergvliet, Diep River, Bishopscourt, Constantia and Lansdowne. If you are between two of them, phone anyway — that is the reason the region has one number.
How long does it take to reach me?
Usually not long, because our vans work from inside this region rather than driving into it. It still depends on your street and on what the M3 and the Main Road are doing at that hour, and you are given a time from where the nearest van actually is when you call.
Can you open my door without damaging it?
Usually. Most residential locks can be picked open, which leaves the door and the lock exactly as they were. Some genuinely cannot, and when yours is one of them we say so before anybody starts.
My house is old and so are the locks. Repair or replace?
Depends what is wrong. Across Harfield, Wynberg and Rondebosch there is a lot of hardware old enough to be worth keeping, and a lock that has gone stiff can often be stripped and serviced rather than replaced. Where the case is worn out we will say so and quote a replacement matched to the door.
I am letting a flat. Can you set up a caretaker key?
Yes. A master key system gives the caretaker or body corporate one key across the block while each tenant holds a key that opens only their own door. It is routine work in the sectional title schemes along the Main Road corridor.
Can you do my car anywhere in the region?
Yes, at the car. Have the make, model, year and whether you still have a working key. That determines what the technician brings with him.
Are you open at night and over weekends?
The line is answered 24 hours a day, every day of the week, including public holidays. Nights and weekends are a normal part of the work rather than an exception.
How do I know the person at my gate is really from AAA?
The vehicle is marked, the technician carries identification, and the line can tell you on the phone who is on the way. If anything does not match, do not open the gate — phone 073 100 3033 and check.
Locked out in the Southern Suburbs?
Phone 073 100 3033. One number for the region, the price first, and a real arrival time.