I was wondering how the re-key worked for these locks. Very clever.

Truly an amazing demonstration of this lock. I like that you don’t just pick the lock but you really show us the inner workings. I don’t know how safe this kind of locks are, but you can’t help admiring the ingenuity of their mechanism.

Lock Picking Lawyer. This is a bit dated, and I would love to see you breakdown the latest generation of this lock. The Kwikset Gen3 of this lock CANNOT be single pin picked in the way you're doing here. Their system has been vastly improved with a sidebar that keeps wafers from binding individually in SPP picking. Only after all the wafers are to shear does the sidebar fall into place allowing the plug to turn. That said, others have been able to pick this lock by tensioning the sidebar with a shim. I have tries this technique, and on the latest models I can get some wafers to bind, but I still can't pick it. There is also a decoding tool for this, and you can cut a key by finding the kwikset depth codes which a special magnifier decoding tool will allow you to do with practice. This tool costs 300.00 dollars though! I'd love to get your professional feedback on the latest version of Kwikset's cylinder in the smartkey version. I want to see if you can pick it, or provide additional tips and feedback to us fellow follow lock nerds!

I realize this is a four year old video, but I wanted to thank you. I got one of these given to me this last Christmas. Just something handed to me, because it didn’t have a key. Because of this video, I learned about the side bar, which is why I couldn’t get any feedback from trying to pick, and it also gave me the confidence to gut the lock, set it for a new key, and get it back together. So again, thank you for this video. You turned something to mess around with, to something I can use.

Thanks for this description. I had one for a few months and only managed one open on it. Tension seemed to just bind the whole plug so I had to work very light. This helps, your technique for picking it more like a car door than a house lock, it makes sense. This is almost how you'd use a Lishi pick.

Love that dude telling us what you're feeling and what you're doing and tension and whatever's happening inside to look that you feel👍🏻

This one was amazing! Your locking mechanism explanation blew my mind💥 You are doing great! 💪🏼

I misprogrammed my smartkey lock while I was changing the keys, this video helped me take it apart and fix it so I didn't need to get a whole new lock when I couldn't fix my mess up. Thank you, LockPickingLawyer!

Okay I really appreciate this video I love how you explained in detail the tools and objectives

Thank you for sharing not just the inside but also how it works! Other channels just pull one apart and say, there it is folks. Great demo, I always watch yours, when I can, in downtime.

Thanks for the tear down. Had an issue where i re keyed it but it would work afterwards With this video I was able to take the dead bolt apart and manually re key it and brought it back to life.

Crazy. Pretty cool design for a lock. Thanks for sharing this little gem brother. Keep em coming!

Really interesting lock with good explanation. Great picking too. Thanks.

Darn, I've really loved these locks :( and the technology is freaking cool!

If it takes the LockPickingLawyer longer than 30 seconds to pick it, I may aswell not even try. :(

I was told when these first came out that they couldn't be picked so I never even tried... not anymore. Thanks!

I found one of these by the side of the road. I know locks can be anywhere from $20-$60. So, I thought I could try messing with it to see if I could re-key it. I couldn't immediately find a piece of metal small enough to fit in the re-key hole. So, I just took it apart to see if I could re-key it with a spare key we had. It wasn't until I found this video of how the re-keying slider works that I was able to put it back together and make it work with a key I already had.

I love how little your videos have changed. Very satisfying for my brain lol

Thank you so much for this I took one apart just to see how it worked and had trouble putting it back together, this video made it possible for me to reassemble one and to have a better understanding of how it works

Lock talk.this makes me feel better. Ive tried numerous times, on bench as well as in the field and i have NEVER picked one

Very nice video. I was hoping to find a description of how these work. Didn't expect to find one quite so good. Thanks.

been unsuccessful so far with the one you sent Harry, this explains why! great pick n gutt.

Interesting design for a kwikset, thanks for the gutting 👍🙃

nice piece of engineering and well explained. fast pick as usual...

Awesome picking!! and great info on the lock!

Thank you so much. I just got one of these and I could not believe how tough it was to pick. Now I know why. I will try again tonight. Good stuff LPL...

if you want the new ones get the uptown or downtown style deadbolt they are brand new styles so they will have the new core. it will say ”new advanced smart key technology” on the back of the package also if it's the new core

Awesome. I have the cylinder from one of these things and had no idea what it was till I saw this video. I just thought it was an oddball wafer lock. Now that I know what I'm dealing with maybe I'll have better luck picking it.

Excellent breakdown! I had been wondering if the rekeying can only happen once or multiple times (it's not really specified anywhere), and this both answers my question and gives me some insight to the lock. Now, if only there was a way to make it not key-retaining...

Nice,very nice😘😘👍🍻 Thanks as always for sharing your knowledge👍👍👍👍

Interesting and very informative. Thanks

I've seen that tray before! 😄 Lock Noob has one exactly like it! 👍

Very interesting - thanks for the detailed explanation.

That was some great picking. Great video.

I check out your vids when I need decent advice and descriptions. Thank you.

Hey Lockpicking Lawyer: You might want to let Bosian Bill know that the the padlock can be spp'd. His video shows raking with a worm style pick is the best way in... Thanks for you video's as always.

great job!

Hi Harry, Great picking again of course, you must have "the touch"! Interesting to see the actual mechanism - well explained as well. I know the locksmiths don't like these self change locks, and generally advise customers to change them. Apparently Kwikset have strengthened them to better resist the crushing technique, I wonder where the "improvements" have been made? Regards, Brian.

Just locked myself out today. Have this on the front door. Guy came said he was gonna have to drill it out. Tried that didn't work. Tried my back door was ruff with it, but got in pretty easy there. Now I'm out a deadbolt an $240. Wont be able to sit down for about a day.

Hey @Lockpickinglawyer, love your content. One request though - can you make a video on this lock in layman's terms? Itd be very helpful for people suggesting locks to a loved one

Thanks

Incredible technology

The second time I was tasked to rekey a lock at work at a hardware store I accidentally took apart one of these thinking it was standard lock but the casing was made out of plastic not metal and didn't seem to have a side bar like shown. So from that point I kind of steered people away from them unless they wanted the rekey feature. But seeing this one in all metal I wonder if it's because it's a deadbolt keyway...

You lucked out! I am a master locksmith.

Good video

you are good

The design looks pretty good. I have to wonder, though, shouldn't the false gate spacing match the comb-like feature in size? It seems like the false gates are double the size of the actual mechanism.

We use these at the apartment complex that I work at. The core is basically impossible to drill through.. Best way we've found is to aim for the 2 bolts on either side. But brute force always prevails if all else fails.

The scary thing about picking a kwikset is that once you've successfully picked it you can reset the pins to a different key. Crazy!

Dude really! I have so much trouble with this lock! ...this video makes me just fucked up and upset...Love your content.

Great picking and gutting. Excellent work as usual. I've got an WEISER SmartKey Rim Cylinder here. It is a Kwikset but from Canada. It is a Challenge lock from "Locks of Anarchy", and I am struggle with it for a while now.

You picked it in 45 seconds and that's on my front door.

this version has been upgraded, and is unpickable due to the fact that no tension on the lock gets transfered to the sliders or the pins, " no feed back", and any tension just binds the sidebar from being depressed due to it being square on top and not angled, and that the only thing that can depress the side bar are its tiny springs, way weaker than the pin springs. I have both versions.

May or may not of lost my keys to a room in my house that’s why I’m here xD

Was hoping you would show aligning the True Gates with Channel, Reassemble, being Sure it Slides back for Rekeying. With same or other Key. I go to a Local Door/Window shop, remove old locks from their Discard Pile, Then Rekey to a Key I have. Wanted to Show Brother In Law aligning the Grooves, Great Video, looking for one with the groove aligning. Thanks

You first mentioned about a padlock, but quickly moved on to the door lock. Did it also have the changeable keying?

I've had one of the for a while, but I haven't been able to pick it. Do you have any tips for picking this one? What kind of tension did you use?

Can you show me how to get the sliders in the right spot for a new key? How do you get the notches correct?

When can we see a video about the new version that can't be tensioned this way? I can send you a brand new lock if you wish. Gen 3 is what I believe they call it. Someone claimed it can be tensioned by pressing down on the sidebar, but I don't think it is possible due to the very small gap between the core and the lock housing. Anyway, it would be interested to see if you could attack it.

Where did you get that clip removal tool is you don't mind me asking????

I was Like #500! Great videos! I'd like to see some recommendations.

I'm so glad people are taking this lock seriously. A few years ago people would hate on this lock for being easy to open by force. It's still a beautiful lock design and a hard pick! Great job btw!

I'm not clear if this was previously asked, but does this lock prevent bumping? Context - looking at a lot of LPL videos, all locks are pickable. Bumping is a ridiculously easy way to get into a house (i.e. small barrier for someone who wants to do this). There are likely less people who can pick a lock, so if it can stop bumping, the lock is a step up from all the other locks. Thoughts?

This is the lock that's driving me nuts. Your videos have help me a lot. I have watched your other smart key video as well. Also your video on tension, which has me sold on getting a heaver top tension bar. Now my questions are. Can you go through this type of lock again and address the tension question? Heavy tension does not work with this lock. 2nd in this video you keep mentioning springy at different points. Could you go into more detail on what you mean by this in relation to the pins binding? Thanks again for the great info!

I tried picking one of these. I kept trying the pins, increasing tension, repeating, regardless I couldn't get any to bind!

Im not sure what I am doing wrong but I cant even get the pins to lift without being very rough. They seem to get stuck on the false gates or something. Its driving me nuts!!!

I still dont get it :( Its nice having a visual of the interior, which lets me recalculate my thinking when i pick the lock, but i still have no idea how it really works lol Great video though, I appreciate you taking the time to take it apart :)

im curious what the bb does for drill protection, couldnt one just use a larger drill bit, pop the ball out, and continue? or just drill above and below to pop it?

I understand Kwikset has redesigned this lock, with a different sidebar mechanism that prevents the plug from rotating unless the sidebar is physically depressed. If I'm understanding it correctly. Are you familiar with that change, or had any luck picking the new design? Thanks very much for all your videos - they're very well explained and have been a great help to me.

Have you ever been able to rake a smart key deadbolt?

Who else has been just trying to open this for hours on end

4:51 'meow'

very interesting id be scared to take it apart. could it be master keyed. great job picking it gonna have to try one

Is this also break resistant? Are they made of steel? Like when a thief is using screwdriver and a wrench.

Do you have an album of the best locks in the world?

Now do it on the newer model with a square sidebar.

Hey LPL I just bought this cylinder to play with and noticed on the key a very small peak? unben? Small rise, right at the back of position 3. I know it’s a manufacturing flaw I’m just wondering if you’ve seen this on a new key.

Is there a top of key way or bottom of key way difference for tension? Or is that just a preference?

Cane to see the clip removed, was opted out RIP

Is there a way to disable the key retaining feature of the Kwikset Smartkey padlock?

Any tips for if we have one on our house to make it more secure? I just got one like 3 weeks ago from Lowe’s and I’m just not sure if I should or shouldn’t trust it. I know that single pin binding is damn near impossible with the newer model but there is still bumping and whatnot on the table in my head.

Any tips on how to pick this lock..I can't seem to get any feedback from the lock

My only question is... If I pick the lock using your method, can I rekey it to a new key. This would be handy to know as a maintenance supervisor at apartment complexes using these locks.

Whats preventing me from changing bitting on any lock??

5:30 for fingerprints lol

Can you use any kwik set cut key to redo the lock. I tried to use a key with deep cuts and it didn't seem to want to go all the way into the lock

Do you have a video explaining your terminology?

Can it be picked by tensioning the slider?

So what is you opinion about this type of lock on your home? 1 to 5

Is this identical to the Weiser Smartkey?

hello friend, I was wondering were you got your tools from? thanks

lol you said "nubs" jk nice job

What he is able to do by unsetting a pin, barely letting off the tension, I have found is a hard skill to master. Correct me if I'm wrong but this is like an undo button if he accidentally sets a pin too high?

Now that I have your fingerprint,.....I'm wondering what I can open with it?

So the one thing I (Im a Locksmith) am confused or perplexed by is how you were able to put pressure on the side by at all. Because you can pick at these cylinders all day long, but if you don’t put pressure on the side bar, you can line the key pins up to the sheer line, but the cylinder still will not turn. Any answers on that? Does it have something to do with you inserting the tension wrench at the top of the key way?

Whats the difference between this kwikset cylinder and the one from your other video where you had to slide the stock shim into the outer edge of the cylinder?

Can you open these with an electric pick? I have not been able too!

Can this lock be rekeyed with the smart key without its current key? Or do you need both current key and smartkey to rekey?

What do you mean by binding do you think that the people that are new at bypassing smart locks know what binding means on a lock

could you make a video about rekeying it