The Market Ticker - KwikSet 888-Style Locks

I have one here.

The “888 style” locks are a newer Kwikset model that is Zwave+ enabled.  It has a newer board in it, basically, and a somewhat-different internal design than the older units.

One word of caution — some of these are shipping with the “keying” on the front piece upside down.  I don’t know exactly how that sort of stupidity happens, but it’s trivially easy to fix if it does, or send it back and get another one.  With that said, once you take care of that if you get one that’s flipped installing it is easy.  (If you run into this let me know and I can explain how to fix it; takes about 5 minutes.)

It has the KwikSet “rekeying” setup in it, so you can rekey it without having to have a pin set.  I’m not a big fan of this in general but KwikSet has it in all their deadbolts now, they’re all over residential installations and it works. …….

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