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Great Close-up pictures Tooly!

My Advice : Do Not Buy Kwickset Locks.

On key in knob only,I just pop out the cylinder faceplate use needle nose pliers to open. Then proceed from there. Deadbolts...are the evil twin that we all love to hate.

I don't think you can pop the face off of the smartkey series, I may be wrong. It would damage it also I figure.

The concept of the lock isnt bad, but if you ever take one apart they are junky plastic and poorly machined metal. I have picked quite a few and the majority end up working but not as well as before. Its not that i broke them there just not very trustworthy locks after they have been picked. I have a few cylinders though maby about 5 that are still in perfect condition after multiple picks. All hail !

Every single time i picked a Kwikset Smart Key lock they always ended up not working after for some reason and now i know why. They are cheap though. The concept of the lock though I thought was a great idea how you can just make it a new key in seconds.

You probably bent or broke the tabs on the "pins".

BTW, nice necropost. Four years, I'm impressed.

That's your ignorance if you think Home Depot pushes these locks. Are you talking about the company in general or the individual? I allow my customers to make informed choices based on what I know. Most people who work at Home Depot are not locksmiths and I noticed you said nothing about Lowes and their Baldwin line.

I'm afraid you won't get an answer. Since he's been banned from the forum.

I've never pick one , but can decode the original key with a bent paper clip, and deph keys, the cylinder is easy to get out.

Have you tried a manual rekey? I know when i pick my uptown gen3 sometimes the key dosnt work for reasons. A manual rekey seems to work for me and resets the ability to use the "smart key tool".

I've picked the older ones, but I've never tried the newer ones. I do have some personal comments on the newer smartkey locks though.
They generally work fine if you've got them on some kind of heated structure, but I have some issues with the one on my garage. When it's very cold outside, after the cars are parked in the garage, the snow and ice melt somewhat and make it humid. The moisture then freezes inside the lock, and the lock can't be opened with a key unless it's heated up. There's a code pad on it, and at least you can opened the lock with the code. I had a Schlage lock in there before, and it had different problems, where the mechanism that allowed the keypad to work wouldn't always open the door, so I had to use the key, which always worked. I suppose I could seal around the lock so it wouldn't get moisture in it, or put an exhaust fan in the garage to keep it drier in there.