Re: Kwikset Smart Key Re-keying - Landlord Forum thread 357070

Re: Kwikset Smart Key Re-keying by Anonymous on May 3, 2018 @15:40

To rekey the lock, you literally:

Insert key. Rotate 90 degrees.
Insert smartkey tool into the lock's special tool slot
Remove smartkey tool from the lock's special tool slot
Remove key
Insert differently keyed key
rotate key back 90 degrees
remove key

Done. The lock is now rekeyed.

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Re: Kwikset Smart Key Re-keying by Anonymous on May 3, 2018 @15:54	[ Reply ]

Forgot, mike drop.

Re: Kwikset Smart Key Re-keying by Garry (Iowa) on May 3, 2018 @17:13	[ Reply ]

OK, I'm intrigued by this. But another Q. That will give you a single "new" key. I always give my tenants 2 keys, while keeping 1-2 for myself. Are there other keys in this set, or do I have to now go to a locksmith to have 2-3 more keys made.? And I always put in a double lockset for a house----a keyed handle and a matching deadbolt for both front and back doors, so I assume I need to do this 4 times with the same key ?

Re: Kwikset Smart Key Re-keying by Anonymous on May 3, 2018 @19:37	[ Reply ]

They make a re-key set for these type locks that cost about 10 or 12 dollars that have 4 new keys and the small tool to reset the locks.

Re: Kwikset Smart Key Re-keying by Anonymous on May 3, 2018 @19:58	[ Reply ]

Honestly, I just play musical keys. Every turnover, I swap keys between houses. So one year house A will have the original key from house B and so on so forth. I have enough keys on my keychain, I don't need to keep adding to them.

Re: Kwikset Smart Key Re-keying by Garry (Iowa) on May 3, 2018 @20:42	[ Reply ]

I do that same thing, but I do it with a whole lock set (2 DBs and 2 handles). What fouls me up sometimes, is when a T actually breaks a handle to the point I could never use it. Then I have to buy a whole new set (because I like my Ts to need only 1 key to get in either front or back door). I have 20 SFHs, scattered all over the city. So nobody knows where an old lock has been, or where its going.