FIRST off, Adam A (fellow locksmith here) .... BRO.... DAMN, I have got to give you mad love here.... Most folks don't realize, that if you seriously mess up your wrist, elbow, shoulder (or knees) on this job, you could end up starting from square one and have to learn it all over again backwards in this job.... If you own your own business the healthcare plan is usually "don't get sick" which don't help things heal when they do break.... I tore the heck out of my rotater cuff a few years back, got some nerve damage which results in some numbness in my right hand... A lot of folks wouldn't think it wouldn't make much of a difference, but you know... Six month out of work just so I could carry a tool bag, another few relearning how stuff should feel and get back to my old level... but I can still do it right handed, just had to adapt to how things feel with two numb fingers... That crap was hard, I would highly not recommend it.... So, YOU, SIR are a FREAKING ROCKSTAR having to relearn it left handed..... If you're ever in Savannah, GA, you have a beer coming to you on me. Secondly, I've been resisting getting into auto, other than classics for a while because of the cost, but these days unless you got a never ending string of industrial or commercial contracts, that's where the money is, you have to... So I've been working on learning it.... I got THIS version of the Lishi in GM39, figuring, "I'll learn on my own vehicle before I put a tool in a customer's"... I've had it for MONTHS, I've prolly put in 60 hours or work on it, and STILL can't open my old GM work vehicle, even my neighbors have gotten used to seeing me, on a stool, in my driveway, trying to pick my own door open at this point... Finally had a few local buddies of mine who are also locksmith's, and who SPECIALIZE in auto, try it with my tool versus theirs, and while it's a (redacted, redacted, redacted, redacted) PITA, with theirs, it's impossible with mine... Lesson learned, so for anyone still paying attention, get the one with Mr. Li's picture, that's what my buddies cleaning up doing auto locksmithing use. It's my next purchase... Then I can figure that out and, then figure out where the rest of the money is coming from... lol ALSO, and I'm sure Bill knows this, and I know you do as well, but for anyone else, again, still paying attention,, as I've said in other comments on other videos, working on a practice lock in the shop is NOT the same as working on locks in the field... Even my locksmith buddies who specialize in auto find my old 2002 work vehicle a PITA to try to unlock... The Lishi's not really needed for mine, since there's both inside the door, and in the vehicle openings for it, but that's not my point here... Especially since the dawn of remote unlocks, most car locks, especially either on the coast or in areas where they salt the roads during winter, are SO out of shape and corroded after quite a few years, they might even lock up with the ACTUAL key... So, once again, it's another tool in the toolbag, it's not a magic wand...and it still takes a load of practice to get it right....

@@derekbroestler7687 can't you just use a wedge or long thin piece of metal to open a car door? It's all i use and it almost always works

His channel would then be called, "JimmyJoes" if he did it like that.

It small businesses like yours, that mske America Great. Glad you didn't give in or up.

@@stompingpeak2043 these are used to make keys

What do you mean "Man I miss Bill's videos"? Did something happen to him??

I dont think he lubricated the lock because it would show blurs for the video so the springs woild be rigid without lubrication.

@@robertwilkins839 no

what are the 8,7,4,3, at the top right under 10,9,6,5,2,1, do? Or is it a display of it at the top were all the tumblers are place in the lock?

onimusha5dm just in case the top tool is covering the lower numbers, you can tell what pin you are on.... also allows you to pick locks with non-standard pin allocation.

LOL Seemed that way but I wasn’t wanting to say that.

I figured that out right away.

@Paul M Absolutely true. On a Ford Fusion door for example wafers 2/3, 6/7 and 10 are on the same side. There is no wafer in position 1. You should test every lock unless you know for sure.

rickhard rockpt True, but, if your keys are locked inside the car or in the trunk, these are great. Yes, there are car door unlocking tools out there but they often set off the alarm which activates a security protocols in the car bypassing other electric door locks and electric trunk releases. But picking the lock will bypass those protocols and not set the alarm off. And this is primarily used to decode keys for cutting new ones with the chip in the key. LS will program the newly cut transponder key to the car, and viola, $250+/-, you now have a key to the one you lost that will start your car. If the LS has to call the dealer to get the key code to cut the key, they often will charge you more as they are charged by the dealer to get that code. For a lock picker, these are overkill. For a LS, or roadside technician like me who has to get keys out of trunks, these are priceless!

Last I checked vag was Volkswagen Audi group ; -)

I did notice it but decided not to mention it lest viewers think that all locks would work like that. This one was a fluke, as I've never had any other locks line up so nicely like that.

@@bosnianbill Yeah I suppose, but it kinda makes me curious if they do the numbers that way to make it easier to separate groups or if all the locks line up like that.

They probably built the training lock to match up with the tool.

I am guessing that they separated the numbers like that to reduce confusion on what pin your on. It makes it easier on the eyes when operating the tool.

could also be that those are the typical standard for most cars but as manufacturers are inclined to do they will change it up if they feel the need to still its best not to instill crutches on the student and to demonstrate to them how to go about feeling for the positions themselves its like most british peoples attitude to driving you learn how to drive a manual (stick shift) then you can drive a automatic afterwards so should you ever have to you can still drive manual transmission

are the china copy of this tool any good ?

You can call in the manufacturing vin# code on the vehicle's dash and the car company can tell you the key cut settings. They charge a fee for this. Have to do this to set the fob if it doesn't transmit anymore.

Nice work, but don't forget the two rules of lockpicking. 1) Never pick a lock that isn't yours or you aren't explicitly allowed to pick. (Obviously :) ) 2) Never pick a lock that is in use. (Unless forced to by circumstances of course. Picking leaves forensic marks inside the lock and damages it in a different way than usual key use. And if the lock had a master key or some rekey system, you can easily lose a master wafer or whatever the rekey system uses during opening, breaking the lock for one of the keys. In short, even though it is unlikely when you know what you are doing, the lock may break.)

That will only hold true for the training lock, which is designed that way.