All-Weather Mechanical Keyless Deadbolt Door Lock - Satin Chrome, #0409 by Anaconda

I'm very happy with this deadbolt. I use it for the door between my house and garage (which is the one we end up always using). I put it up high so my little kids can't get out during the day. I had to do everything, including drilling all the holes. It wasn't too hard and turned out great. A few things to note:1. You don't need a circular hole cutter for this. Usually when you do a door, you use those 2 1/8 hole cutters to make a spot for their doorknobs and deadbolts but the template here actually wants a square hole and recommends cutting it with four cuts through with a smaller bit, like 7/8 inch. I purchased a hole cutter for this project and didn't use it. guess I'll take it back. Though to be fair, maybe the hole cutter would have worked...making the third drill hole was a pain. I ended up using a smaller bit to cut out some parts to make it fit right.2. Setting the combination is extremely easy and foolproof. I think I have read of people having trouble, but the design must have changed. To change the combination, they have turning switches on the back. You use a little screwdriver (included) to turn them so the ones you want in the combination face out. That's it. Nothing to mess up, really.3. In order to switch this from a left handed door to right handed, there's a pin you have to pull with needle nosed pliers. It required a surprisingly hard tug to get out and it was hard to get a grip on. It worked, though. That was the only adjustment.4. As some people may have mentioned, the order of the numbers/letters you press doesn't matter. That dramatically cuts down the number of unique combinations. Still too many for a normal crook to get through by trial and error (5811 possibilities, by my calculation), but if you are interested in high security, you should look elsewhere.So how is the operation? Pretty great. From the inside, there's a little handle you turn one way to lock it and the other way to unlock it. Unfortunately there's no indication of whether it is locked or unlocked when you just walk up to it (with a normal deadbolt, horizontal means locked and vertical means unlocked.). That would have been a nice feature. But anyway, locking and unlocking from the inside is super easy.From the outside, you turn a little knob one way to lock and enter the combination and turn the other way to unlock. This door doesn't automatically lock when the door is shut. You always have to lock it if you want the door locked. Just like a regular deadbolt.Fit and finish are great. It's pretty sturdy and functions well. I'm sure an attack with a crowbar or something would take it down fast, but anyone with that kind of determination could get through any of my doors or windows pretty easily. Regardless of how strong it actually is, it looks very strong and unbreakable. Reasonably good deterrent.I think I'm going to swap out the door handle for one that doesn't lock at all and rely exclusively on this for security through that door. That way I will never be locked out. I may buy another one of these for the back door. My kids are always sneaking out of that one as well.

If you want to lock yourself out of your house, this is the lock for you. When I pulled the unit out of the package I was initially impressed by the sheer weight of the thing - I mean if you put it in a sock and swung it around melee style you could really do some damage. And If I had the CEO of the company in the room with me right now that's just what I'd do.The problem is the deadbolt cylinder assembly itself. after blowing a whole afternoon breaking in to the room without while trying not to do much damage to the door or walls, I took the screws out from the inside, took both of the lock's face places off, and realized the bolt would not retract into its cylinder because the cylinder had come apart at the tail end. The way the assembly failed, the bolt would never come unlocked. I actually did *a little* damage to my door just getting this piece of crap extracted from my door. I don't write reviews but with my entire afternoon gone, what's a few more minutes of spreading the word about this *horrible mistake of a product.*Look folks, locks have to work as intended. When they dont YOU GET LOCKED OUT OF YOUR ever lovin HOUSE. In my case, it was installed on a small utility room where I store power tools and other important man crap. Which is the crown jewel of a man's existence.When I examined why the tail of the cylinder came apart it appeared to be held together with a hammered in pin. But the pin was not staked or made secure in any way, and was just loose and wiggling around in there. It was a failure waiting to happen.So when I examined the part of the product you won't see in side the door, I saw the whole bolt cylinder looked like one of those cheap die-cast toy cars from china. Now the rest of the visible lock looked REALLY nice an like I said, was heavy and had a very nice fit and assembly. Make it look nice on the outside for the suckers. Cheap out on the internals so the boss can get the new Porsche.If I had the engineer and production manager and accountant for this product in the same room, I'd bang their heads together like the three stooges that they are. Why cheap out on the MOST IMPORTANT PART? So now I am hoping Amazon will make it right. The thing was roughly 50 bucks and change, and I could have gotten any number of brand name locks that work without fail. ( I won't mention name brands cause I'm not here schilling for them, just warning YOU about a piece of crap.) I so hope I can figure the "add photo" out so I can show you guys what cheap die cast pot metal painted a shiny chrome looks like when it fails.

There have been a number of inherent mechanical issues with this lock so far. Just trying to install the unit is very difficult and the instructions are almost irrelevant. Refuses to work correctly in cold weather outdoors. The faulty parts are found in the actual bolt retracting mechanism. Bolt sleeve and mechanism must be periodically removed and lubricated. Going to ask for a refund or return.