LPL has already done SEVERAL videos about Kwikset SmartKey locks. He said that they are slightly more difficult to pick, but only slightly. But for the average lock picker, it will most likely be much more difficult to pick open.

@@Conqueef-tadoor Slightly for LPL is about 3 seconds... I'll have to go find the videos. Thanks.

Already been done

@@Conqueef-tadoor Drill goes brrrrrrrrrrr

​@@Floridamancan locksmith here, can confirm drill goes brrr. These locks are vendor trash. Worn keys don't work well with these locks. And when you have a failed key change attempt you need a special tool to reset the lock. And these locks wear out in a very fun way where they just randomly stop working.

These locks are remarkably pick resistant.

@@CannonAndre-ce7fi Not really.

​@@CannonAndre-ce7fi He Just Picked It!!! SMH!! 🤣😭

Only if you have the original "master key"...

You need the original key or you can't change it. edit: Original meaning the key that currently opens the lock, not the original factory key.

Love this comment!

Lol

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Thanks for your service and repairs!

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😂 that part ❤

Creeper maintenance guy! 😮

Ah if you can change it so can they with the same tool da.

@@alphahoss1947but then it looks like they wouldn’t be able to get in with the original key?

​@@alphahoss1947once you change it using your original key, the creep's copy of yr key will no longer work. For them to open the door they would need a copy of your NEW key which I assume you would not share with them.

This is what I was going to ask about

Wait in the us you cannot change locks without changing the entire door knob setup? That's wild

​@@My1xTyes you can

I used it for kinda the opposite. Replaced the doorknobs at my moms house. Used one of these so I could set it to use her existing key. Since she has multiple doors with the same key it was easier than replacing everything and her using a new key.

@@tonyblake7569 couldn't you just use the existing locks on the new door knobs?

God bless you for this comment lol I was staring at that the WHOLE TIME

Thank you! When this started, I thought is was going to be a warning about how to recognize that someone has picked your locks. Frankly, I'm not sure about the actual point of this video at all. You still need the original key to get into the house. Is this an instruction on how to rekey your locks without hiring someone? For $20, you can just buy all new hardware. It doesn't take any more time to remove the old and reinstall the new.

Why is that?

A dead knot is a weakness and undesirable in a lockable door.@@TheCorrectionist1984

Yupp, an asshole installed that.

Well they have to have the other key

Its not a secret its on the instruction of the lock when you buy it

This should not have been shown at all this gives thieves extra tool to break into your house.

You still the original working key.

Let me say this once more, you still need the original working key to be able to reset the lock to a different key.

I like Schlage.

@@hotdrumchick Schlage does have a reputation as a very good quality lockset.

And what brand do you recommend? Just curious 🧐

@@SG-ze9noBaldwin made outstanding locksets and hardware, however they can get quite pricey. They do however have a cheaper version and I've heard it's not what it used to be, beware. Schlage has a good reputation and they've been around for years, however the average Home Deopt line seem a little cheaper built. Emteck is really good also, snd and I think it's a good choice. And the top of the line buget model that I like and own now ( our home was built in 2012) is BHP, Better Home Products, they were on the house when we bought it, I took the entry lockset off and it looked it over and liked what I saw, so their staying. All the passage sets in our home are BHP and the quality is good.

@kevinpercell7452 what brand do you recommend?

They don’t malfunction… you have them because owners don’t need you to rekey. This guy is full of trash. I work at a property management company with approx 575 homes under management. Vast majority of homes have 1 to 2 of these deadbolts with ZERO issues

Take a kwikset key with all 3 cuts or 4 cuts and apply pressure youll get in

@@michaeldodd721 that does not work as well as you think it does

easy to defeat... get a schlage

Agree. Junk. They often reset in northern climates spontaneously.

However, it does mean that if someone does pick the door once, they can have unlimited access and lock the rightful owner out

@@EdgyShooter picking the lock and having a key in the lock are two different things. to reset the pin configuration, you need the key to be in the lock to do it.

but if you lost your original key.....this won't work. you need the original to be able to change it, no?

@@ShawnNSteph61022 I don't know about the original key, just the one that was used to set the pin configuration last most probably. All I will say is that it would be (I presume) very difficult to hold the lock picking tools in place if you were going to pick the lock while doing this XD But I guess anything is possible. Otherwise it's just going from one key configuration to another. Like when you make a new computer password, you have to put the previous password in first to authenticate the changes.

@@ShawnNSteph61022 pretty much, you can back up key configurations in places like Home Depot tho if you trust them

You are so right this is a lock that is so prone to failure that it's a joke. Not to mention that a large screwdriver can be used to open the lock.

Any lock on a door only keeps honest people out.

"Not if I can do anything about it!"

There is a legal eviction process that one must follow. Don’t lock people out in this dangerously cold weather, deprive them of thier medicine, pets etc. Honestly id break a window to get in a start arranging to move. I mean you have my security deposit, first and last rent so ya, that and don’t leave until you lawyer up so you can’t just be thrown out.

@@richard09able ... its a joke.

Ok I was wondering what the point was 👍🏿

@@tammiejohnson5103 the point of the lock? or a joke?

It's a very Knotty door!

Doesn't matter, one good kick on any door will shred the doorjam at the bolt. Locks do next to nothing against forced entry, how solid the door is doesn't matter either. It's how solid the door jam is

aren't knots supposed to make the wood stronger?

So would most doors, they really are not all that strong.

U can do that only from inside not from outside....I found them very convenient so I don't have to change the whole lock every time a tenant move out , I just have to change the key....

I've worked for 4 different builders (ranging from rental to entry level to luxury) - they all use these now. Interestingly, the only build I worked with moving away from them was the new construction rental builder - Legal was concerned using these opened the company up to more liability.

I managed 32 rental units for my boss at the steelyard where I worked. We've been using those things for years That's really all there for

Thank you, was genuinely looking for an answer to why

Same. We rotated unit keys every few months in our vacation rentals. These can be paired with electronic versions, too. Keyless access is the norm, and we put the hard key in an rental box on the side in case batteries fail. Then no callouts for lost keys.

It's also handy if you want one key to open all your doors, no need to carry a bunch of keys.

Can't any just get the reset tool?

It's a Kwikset "Smart Key" which has been available for decades at Home Depot for anyone to buy.

Right, I couldn't figure this out from the directions either

I mean, if it was already installed on the house you just bought you wouldn't have seen the box.

Nobody keeps the box.

@@thybigballs I’ll rephrase: it’s so secret that it’s the main thing that one of the largest Doorset manufacturers markets. See above on something not being a secret just because you don’t know it.

And "Kwikset" engraved into the front of the lock.

Just have a locksmith or hardware store rekey the locks to a new key while someone is home.. it's a lot cheaper to carry in the lock.

@@Stache987 This was for my own house, not a rental. I can get new keys made to the bitting I select for a couple bucks each at the hardware store and reset the lock myself for free.

When renters move out, I just put new locks on the doors. They are pretty cheap at Home Depot.

@@Irideonandon all my landlords used a lock from another apartment someone moved out from, like my district manager did with safe heads when someone got terminated, and took one at a time to a locksmith to change the combo

Another words leave it to the professionals

Could you not just pick the lock once it is unregistered? Then when it is picked you can try to set it to the new key again. Might be an option if you do not have one of those reset rekey tools.

Yup, that's true. Learned my lesson on the first install of these to match the back door. Thank God I had another set in the truck.. of course customers were watching like an owl lol

@@VestigialHead Despite their crap construction. Those changesble Kwiksets sidebar design are difficult to pick by conventional means.

Mo Money..... AIN'T IT JUST AIN'T IT 😜 lols

Doesn’t make any sense

@@infunerous666 yes, because you have to have the original key to change the lock, and the landlord who installed the lock would have that. If they change it it’s easy and the old key won’t work.

It takes 5mins tops to change a Kwickset deadbolt and only a CPL more to re-pin one for a master key. I'd just replace it after ea tenant and be done w it.

@@HBSuccess yes if you want to keep spending money

These are not secure! I got locked out, and used the wrong key and a sim card remover and was able to get in

whats the purpose of that?

@@ScreamingEagleFTW if you lose your keys or you Let somebody borrow a key you can change the lock without actually changing the lock

Nobody has the box that my locks came in unless they installed it themselves, which almost nobody has.

@@juliezbeez it doesn’t matter if they have the box of now. If you have this brand lock, you probably have this on your lock. You can rekey your locks to any other key of the same style. Just need the shim to stick in there and the current key it’s key to. It will only work if the current key is present, otherwise you need to call a locksmith or replace it.

Right. It's like the whole reason we bought that kind of lock. duh.

Yeah lmao

No one reads the back of the box😔

🤣

Maybe so, but you didn't know that info.

@@flthunderdigginwrob3162 Anyone who works in or around hardware or locks would know this. An informed consumer should know this. Kwikset has had this feature and advertised it for years. But unfortunately most consumers are not informed.

only homeowners and multiple unit owners would no this

@@michaelamos2336 You just named like 80% of the people who buy residential locks. The point the guy was making is that people are posting videos on things that should be known, but since the general population is so stupid and uninformed, they think this is a magic trick.

@@michaelamos2336 exactly.

@@michaelamos2336 And builders, who can change the key and now none of the construction workers still have a key.

Thanks. I was wondering about the efficiency of this stuff... that is... the failure rate.

Good to know thanks

Have to disagree. Only have a sample size of 1 but had em on my exterior doors for 8.5 years now. Rekeyed multiple times between now ex wife, different roommates, and a few girlfriends with no issues. Even did the mod recommend buy LPL to make em unpickable (yes they're grade 1 bolts and grade 2 knobs). Highly recommend!

a lil too good to be true :\

My parents have 4 houses and only use Kwikset. They've been using them for years with no issues.

Where do you get the new keys, though? How can you just buy random keys without a lock?

@@KathrineJKozachok get a random new pattern from a keysmith.

My apt complex just did this to everyone who lives here. Thats about 200 people.

You have to have the original key.

You're not smart

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

No. You won't.

I replaced all three locks on my house, the spouse had a bad habit of losing the Lock to the Doors, and I had all three keyed the same so I could get in the house if someone messed up the lock. I can reset all the locks to my new keys in less then 10 minutes, and did so when my car keys and house key were stolen two years ago. Instead of three hours of intense labor it was 10 minutes and done. And you can easily buy a new set of keys at Lowes if they get compromised. I love these things.

@@bobh.6108 ooo, that is a great idea! Thank you !

Schlage had a system which did something similar. I had them put on all my doors in my first house.

They came out in 2005

43 here ...SAME

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Rarely do I see a comment and audibly lol….you sir did that for me. Thank you I needed it

@@Chandler34 that made me feel better sir. I wrestled with my honesty to post but that comment but it's compulsory at this point. Lol 😆 thanks!

😂😂😂😂

SWEAR!!!!!

Never question youtube

possibly to cause a flood of comments like this one, which drives up engagement, and puts this on the top of the suggested videos list.

​@@i.lostblur I huuuuuu

I'm a leprechaaaaaaaaun! - Wayne Campbell

Never seen such a square head

It's all fun and games till people realize that all they need is that majic key to be able to reuse their old key again.

@@redwolf1135 I was thinking the same, but then it dawned on me that they would need a key that turned the lock in the first place to reset to new key

This is also assuming the lock was recently replaced.

Stop saying today years old it's stupid

@@stephenmoore3035 your opinion and your entitle to it but I would continue to use it because this is America and I have freedom of speech and like the phrase. If you don’t like it don’t look at it and move along.

Actually, this is the worst lock you can have on your doors, there is a bypass tool that can get you in by force and sometimes the original key still works. They are garbage. Look for a video on how to bypass the Kwikset Smart lock.

@@azarellediaz4892u can buy a bump key that will work on most locks, lol

so we are siblings!? nice to meet you brother/sister. as pure hearted as our dad is this is really surprising to me. lol

In the locksmithing business they say a lock is just a gentleman's agreement not to enter.

Dad is on point

Bahahaha

As is typically the case..

That's what she said...

somehow I would guess he has put his magic tool into a few young men's little hole....

he made it sound weirdly suspicious in just 12 words

Yeah as in which house to look for😏if you get me🥷🥷

That's the first thing I thought 😆🤣

I was wondering what possible utility this feature might offer, but I think you've put your finger on it.

​@@BilgemasterBill The original intended purpose was to make it easier to make all the locks in your house share the same key. It's convenient for the homeowner, but it's also much cheaper for them because they can make one kind of lock and then just vary the keys.

​@@DrMattHHlol you said luck not lock 🤣🤣

You can’t change it unless you have the original key

Try emtec locks... very nice.

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Was bouta say the same you beat me to it 😂

When you do that your crazy

To begin with I wouldn't go out with a crazy chick, but if she was in stealth mode and I didn't find out she was crazy until later into the relationship I still wouldn't give her a key. I give my pet dog a key before I give it to a woman.

@@kingssingyou’re *

@@SpiritualConduit Never been a problem. If you have to damage a lock to get in, that would be chargeable against their deposit. Or locksmith charge to pick the lock.

Was it a blue colored skinny key? If it was, it's a schlage brand lock and it was their attempt at doing what this video is demonstrating, but with a blue key that does what that thin tool does in the video. Their locks kept jamming up and everybody kept trying to use the blue key to lock and unlock their doors, which made it even more likely to jam up the locks. They eventually stopped selling them all together.

@@BimbusBucklenuts It was a brass colored key.

Not the same. That was most probably for interior locks.

@@BillGreenAZ that was for interior locks.

@@llaneelyort5599 Thanks.

Big brother is always listening

No worries. It's on my feed too, even though it has never before crossed my mind.

I know man happens to me all the time and I don't have digital spies in my house like echo

@@rockinHurley777 I like to call it "Big Google/KZfaq". If Scott wrote to someone about it or mentioned it, the information is in a cookie on his computer. KZfaq reads the cookies on your computer and can present videos that are related to that subject.

Yet we don't switch to flip phones and keep electronics, and mic TV remotes locked up when not being used

Yep.

The secret trick that's a feature listed right of the front of the box is bold letters.

When I got my house it was over 15yrs ago 🤓

Actually, you just found that out.

@@markcunningham2959 And then....

Except it kinda defeats the purpose of the lock if any key can be made to open it...

@@prestonbeaulieu4379 anyone can open practically any door lock, especially residential. Drill it, pick it, bypass it entirely. Hell take a breacher kit or make your own; and breach it. It’s all about WHO is getting in, a common criminal likely won’t even bother with picking a lock. Drilling it at best, and at worst maybe prying a door open with a crowbar. Police can breach doors, and so can anyone else. It just stops low effort crimes, and slows or delays a entry to prepared for a fight. If you rely on a lock to keep bad people out, you’re one flimsy lock away from getting robbed or killed 😂

The only thing wrong with these locks on apartments are these can’t be masterkeyed.

@@cwebblocksmith Kwikset actually makes ones that can be masterkeyed, but they're actually 2 locks in one and you rotate a ring on the front to use the master key instead of the resident key. Both resident and master lock cylinders can be rekeyed like this video. They're kind of big and goofy looking though

Exactly it’s like why make this video do they want theft 😂

He would need a working key to change it. Can’t believe 32 people liked your comment. SMH

​@@bandjsdadwe know that but it's nit like folks wint come visit you and steal your key

That's really cool but have you considered that not everyone who has these locks are who actually bought them?

You read instructions????

Renters might have these without knowing the owner put them in.

Not just that, it's literally written on the front of the box for the deadbolt as a major feature.

it’s called Kwikset Smart Key system. Literally in giant letters on the packaging explaining what it is. It’s like trying to argue buying vanilla ice cream vs vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips.

It's very common for landlords to move a lock from one apartment to another when there is a move out, I've always asked the landlord if it's master keyed, and bought new locks myself (no wear and tear, and the kind I want) and personally handed him a key. I used to be a shift lead in a franchise restaurant with many locations in a metro area, the district manager was always bringing a new safe "topper" from a store where a person who wasn't there anymore thus protecting two stores. I was the one to pick up the bank bags and get the days cash supply, we were cash only BTW. Many things you learn about cash handling, dimes are a pain, get nickels, two forms a dime BTW. I'd also ask customers if they had any pennies they'd like to get rid of. We had parking meters nearby and people always wanted proper change.

The money you save on paying a locksmith to rekey your lock is nothing compared to what you have to pay for a new lock when this pos fails.

@@Kiisu8888 lmao yeah someone's gonna reset the lock and rob the place

@@batt3ryac1d nah cause you need a working key to begin with, but I wouldn't trust this mechanism over real cut pins

This is why apartment buildings don't want tenants to change their locks.

@@JAMES-wl2pd I’ve never faced that issue, they usually just want a copy of the new key. I always swap out these junk locks wherever I move.

These are trash. It takes such a small amount of leverage to destroy the mechanism completely and unlock the door.

Bump key goes brrr....

OH, you were SOMEthing....

That a damn shame

Oh no, you caught us,,, lol.