^^^
I'm familiar with all of this, but the locks still stick.

I think you are on to something about viberations as the roads here are terrible. I tried to align the plates on the first lock which froze with no luck. I even took it to a locksmith who couldn't get it to open.

On a side note both my wife and I have Abus chains with the same style key as the OnGuard which haven't given us a single problem over several years, so I don't think it's user error.