![]() ![]() Do yourself a favor and even do some independent research. If you live in The Villages, please read this and click on the links and read/watch the articles and videos. These locks do not have the ability to be master keyed, so this limits their application even further. However, if the lock fails on the tenant, or the tenant re-keys the lock, this would present even more issues. The idea that they could save money having to re-key locks between tenants is great. ![]() Property managers new and old seem to love the idea, what property manager wouldn’t. Think about this before you install Kwikset Smartkey on or in your home. ![]() In my opinion, they are not the Grade 1 locks they claim to be. While they have made these changes and a few others, they still fail. Since then, in most if not all, the newer versions use a weak pot metal which replaced the plastic. Locks and plastic really do not have any place together in my opinion. These locks have also had plastic in them, yes plastic. They made the wafers thicker, the older version has thinner wafers that are easier to defeat. While Kwikset did address a few of the issues, they didn’t really solve the problems altogether. The one thing that the article does not seem to mention (newer versions weren’t out yet) is that these locks have gone through different versions, as many things do. Here is an article that has a focus on all of the ways the well known Marc Tobias has found to defeat the Kwikset Smartkey. People have reported that they left their home and locked it up as normal, only to come back and find that their key no longer operates the door that it locked just hours earlier. First of all, these locks tend to fail under normal usage, even within the first year many times. Now let’s talk about why it is not a good idea to install Kwikset Smartkey locks on your doors. These locks are also very resistant to lock picking and bumping techniques.They are easy to be re-keyed by the owner as long as they have a working key.Surely these locks can’t be all bad, right? Of course not, they do have their good points. So you want to install Kwikset Smartkey on your doors, or you just did and have waited until now to do some research on them. Notice the small slot to the left of the keyway, this indicates that the lock is a Smartkey lock ![]()
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