@@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639 Basically of UA-cam Trending. Have you ever read some of the "Trending" videos on their list? Clickbait after Clickbait. Even Clickbait of Clickbait. Oh and CNN being pimped like crazy.
Typical LPL video. In barely 1½ minutes, he introduced himself, introduces the lock, enumerates 3 weaknesses, bypasses the lock twice, and signs out by wishing us a nice day. No wasted time.
If I'm ever in the market for a new lock, all I got to do is search his channel, and I can find out in 90 seconds whether or not the lock is junk. If only product reviews for other products was this dead simple.
Heck, even a tiny bug could wedge itself in, and unknowingly unlock it!* _*Probably would require a strong, thin bug. Probability of happening: 0.0001%_
But all of his videos are either 90 seconds or he got mad and made a 5 minute rant. Rarely does he not pick or defeat the product in a scary time frame. (Yes there are at least 2 locks he never picked)
You know you've watched too much LPL when you can immediately guess the weakness from his description of the lock. Cast zinc? Low melting point Cheap wafer lock? Raking attack Clicks it when it locks? Shimming attack
It's amazing seeing how your videos have progressed in quality and how much more confident you sound while presenting the locks and what you're doing. Thanks for everything you do for the lockpicking community!
Pathetic?? Some strong words you're using there, id love to see you invent something so i can call it a "pathetic piece of design" whatever that means buddy :)
@@noby5711 I think you're likely being sarcastic, but I'm not entirely sure. I realise product design can be a challenging job, that products are normally heavily cost engineered, also development and testing resources are often very limited. However, I would expect anyone designing security products to know about the most common weaknesses and attempt to design them out. Shimming trivially bypasses this lock, making it a pathetic design - it provides only an illusion of security. This product could have been made more difficult to shim by adding a cap to the top casting that fully enclosed the ratcheting prong from the bottom part of the lock in the highest possible position, closing off the easy option of shimming the lock from the top. However, the lock would still have been shimmable from underneath so long as you could find a way to insert the shim. As LPL has shown previously, mechanisms that lock onto teeth and ratchet are inherently vulnerable to shimming so long as the insertion of a shim is not physically blocked. It would be far better to lock using an unshimmable ball beating based mechanism. Trailers are typically high value targets - they are easy to move, often are valuable and usually have valuable contents. I appreciate that the market demands inexpensive trailer locks which might act as minimal deterrence to a thief (if there are two trailers side by side, one locked with this and one totally unlocked, perhaps this product would be enough to push a thief who knows nothing about locks to take the unlocked trailer). However, if I owned a valuable trailer, I'd be looking to use a high quality coupler lock and either a.high quality wheelclamp or (better, where it's practical) a high quality hardened chain through the frame of three trailer and an immovable locking point. I'd use high quality padlocks with these items. I realise such an approach is not cheap and it would involve carrying a lot of metal around to secure the trailer, but you should choose security products corresponding to the threat. If the trailer and its contents are worth £10,000 plus, it's likely worth spending £500 to secure that trailer in a way that will slow even a dedicated thief significantly.
@@noby5711 Well, there are several lock-picking channels out there. If I had to design a lock, the first thing I'd do would be to binge-watch LPL, BosnianBill, and a few others, trawl through black hat presentations, &c, and find out what *doesn't* work. Top of the list is poor tolerances. Another is brittle shells. I've opened several suitcases when I lost the keys by simply crushing the lock with a pair of pliers. (There's no point in putting a good lock on luggage that can easily be cut open.) I'd certainly join the nearest locksport group and give them my prototypes to test!
Thank you for doing your videos. As far as I am concerned you are the gold standard on UA-cam. I have learned so much from you... The lock information is amazing however placing my emphasis on your communication skills. Once again thank you.
Have you ever thought about making a compilation video of the locks you think are best in class. For example, a padlock, a trailer hitch lock, a bike lock etc etc. I think it would get a lot of views and be very helpful for the viewers who haven't had the time to watch every video.
Honestly, probably more. My reasoning being that this can already be easily defeated by shimming and the core isn't much, which leaves its ONLY minor potential resistance being to a mechanical attack. Zinc will already melt and is easily cut, as well as being brittle. At least the right plastic composition, especially a fiber-reenforced one, likely wouldn't be prone to shattering with a blow like this would.
Omg I'm bringing this pos lock back to home depot. I have no box and it's like 3 months old but idk. Total waste of $ .. thanks to you LPL I sleep with one eye open lol
They do, then they send him replacement locks because it was "from a bad batch", which he promptly defeats using the same attacks. Check out his video on the Viro lock from a few days ago.
This seems like the kind of product you'd buy when you WANT your trailer/boat/whatever to be stolen but you want plausible deniability when the insurance adjuster looks at your case.
@@bontrom8 Do any do that? I could see some insurance companies for higher cost things like cargo in shipping containers might actually have a lock standard.
This makes no sense. Whether you want it stolen or not. You are not required to lock your items in order to receive compensation on your policy. If you leave your keys in your car and it’s stolen. You’re still paid
@@black88lx That depends on your policy. The policy can be written however they like. For instance you're not going to be covered for a $5000 bicycle if you leave it unlocked in Manhattan.
Thanks. My friend has this lock on his trailer, and he can't find the keys and he's been months trying to figure out where his mom put them. I was pretty sure you would have the answer...I'm glad I found you. 👍
Thanks for keeping me from buying this, I've noticed it in the store but not looked at it yet. Now I won't bother! Can you recommend a good way to secure a trailer, besides making the coupler removable and taking it off and removing the wheels? My dad always said a lock is to keep honest people honest, not to keep dishonest people out. So glad you are honest!
I have one of these, it is perfect for my use! My wife is extremely worried that someone will steal our nearly 30 foot long trailer in the middle of the night and the bright red POS stuck on the hitch helps her sleep much better.
I would honestly love to see how you approach a brand new product you havent seen before and see you figure out and try various methods to bypass or just figure out how it works
The last trailer coupler lock I bought was a sod to insert and a sod to remove. And that's *with the key!* However many thieves just rope the coupler to their hitch and drive away. My current trailer has a tiny lock in the handle such that the whole barrel has to be removed. I've backed it up with a Denver Boot that I've modified with extra metal welded on. Of course someone could just lift the whole thing onto a flatbed! 😩 A fellow club member had an 8 seater people carrier stolen that way.
We have a couple of these locks on our trailers at work as a deterrent. We lost the keys for them a while ago so to take them off we just kick them off of the hitch and to put them back on we just rake them open real quick, (raking them is equally as fast as the key).
Borrowed my neighbor's trailer a couple days ago. He couldn't find the key, for the hitch lock. It was a Master Lock. I had to exert a great deal of personal discipline, to not whip out my picks 🤨
This is why I use multiple locks to secure any trailer....... The longer it takes you to get the coupler free, the more likely it is you'll be caught...... Used the reverse logic when I worked for the cable company, the quicker I could get up and down the pole, the less likely anyone would know I had disconnected them..... Almost never used a ladder
@@springbloom5940 no lie...... Hook it and book it...... Ofcourse I had so much experience with it, I was getting called out to other guys jobs to get at the poles they couldn't get to..... Pissed me off the one time I had to go to a guy with a busted ladder who could have called another tech with a ladder and he had the new guy with him..... So pissed I free climbed right in front of the new guy..... Yeah, you should never do that
For all the flaws in this particular lock, I do understand the demand for ratcheting locks, since they are pretty convenient. It seems to me that they could be made secure by eg. putting a cog-wheel between the rack and the pall, or just anything to make the pall inaccessible from the outside, but I haven't seen that anywhere. Is there any lock that actually does this?
Bright red lock that just screams, "Steal this trailer!" It really couldn't even look more cheap. I'm wondering how well it stands up to physical attack. What would be better a long pry bar or a sledge hammer. If the point of engagement is so slim that shim will defeat it, how much resistance can it muster?
I know the only purpose of a lock is to keep honest thieves honest, but I have a feeling that even an honest thief would argue in court, "I mean, if he didn't intend for someone to take the trailer, he'd have secured it with something more robust like a zip tie," and the judge would respond, "you make a fair point and you seem honest; Not Guilty, and you can keep the trailer."
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 The metal of a nail file is sturdy enough, but it might be too thick. Feeler gauges are made to be a exact thickness. The best answer I got is try it. If it doesn't work, bite the bullet and buy a set of feeler gauges.
My neighbor just put one of these on his travel trailer yesterday. He was not happy when I showed him how easy it was to shim with just a piece of plastic.
This and the Reese's Tow Power lock were both easy to bypass. I'd be interested if there was a good trailer lock out there somewhere as I almost feel it's more secure to just chain the trailer wheels together than anything.
It also looks like that you can slide a pry bar underneath that Red Bracket and pry forward and simply roll it right off the top are the trailer hitch.
Pretty much all coupler locks are defeatable in seconds. If you have the one I think it is (yellow with a metal rod bent around the coupler) you can just use a prybar and pop it right off.
I have to wonder if they were making a bad lock by design rather than by mistake in this case. Zinc lock, massive shim hole, easy shim geometry, wafer lock, and I'm sure a lot more errors which were ignored in this video.
The most popular locks are not good, because the lock-pickers train on them ! *The rare and unique locks are better,* because nobody trained for them. What I do is it to disguise my custom locks, so that the brand is impossible to guess.
You should travel around the World an pick the Locks from Subscribers that have lost their keys from Locks you never seen before and in real life conditions. 👍
When you design a prototype of these you need to hand it off to a few experienced lock smiths and ask them to break in to it. if they can do it with ease then maybe you should do some tweaking. Having a cutting torch will draw attention to you. But if its a shim attack no one will notice.
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One of the only channels where this kind of title isn't clickbait.
That's what I think every time I see the title
As opposed to which other channels?
He could be more clickbaity if he said bypassed in less than a second. Oh wait, thats what happened.
@@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639 look at the Trending list of UA-cam
@@justincarawan-carawanco.pu1639 Basically of UA-cam Trending. Have you ever read some of the "Trending" videos on their list? Clickbait after Clickbait. Even Clickbait of Clickbait. Oh and CNN being pimped like crazy.
Typical LPL video. In barely 1½ minutes, he introduced himself, introduces the lock, enumerates 3 weaknesses, bypasses the lock twice, and signs out by wishing us a nice day. No wasted time.
I'd love to be on a jury in one of his cases!
@@sfmc98 lol! Right? He'd introduce the case and trial would be done by lunch.
If I'm ever in the market for a new lock, all I got to do is search his channel, and I can find out in 90 seconds whether or not the lock is junk. If only product reviews for other products was this dead simple.
Yeah, a lot of other youtubers would somehow stretch this out so it gets to the magical ten minute mark.
And I just came from AMMO NYC about how to wash a car in 15 steps. With some other stuff thrown in, in case 15 is too short.
I like that you systematically destroy all lock companies. Also, remind me to never start a lock company.
I'm pleased to know that you are subscriber! Crazy too see you here 😁
Or, start one with lock picking lawyer as your QA team.
Casey D no good, then you just build it for a light tension picker and LPL has to call BosnianBill.
Hey D
He gives credit where credit is due... unfortunately credit is very rarely due.
"You should probably be getting the idea that this is a product to avoid" is such a lawyerly way of saying it, lol.
I listen to his videos over and over to try and pick up this behavior.
The gap is so large that using the key as a shim might be more convenient than turning the cylinder with it...
ElZamo92 use my weiner as a shim oh yah baby!!!
Kush Hunter well that’s a really thin weiner 😂😂😂
Heck, even a tiny bug could wedge itself in, and unknowingly unlock it!*
_*Probably would require a strong, thin bug. Probability of happening: 0.0001%_
You know it's a garbage product when the video is only 90 seconds.
@@Pyth110 but it's true mate!
He doesn't even bother to pick it, that's actually worse than a masterlock
Aaron Anderson half of the video is listing all the flaws lol
But all of his videos are either 90 seconds or he got mad and made a 5 minute rant.
Rarely does he not pick or defeat the product in a scary time frame. (Yes there are at least 2 locks he never picked)
I'ts RED, therefore it's garbage.
My favorite LPL videos have to be the ones where he can bypass the lock faster than it takes to use the key.
I need a playlist!
Yeah my thoughts exactly.
wooooooo hoooooooooo I slipped in fast enough to be LIKER # 400 !!! Loved this video !!!
We include a key in case you want to open it the hard way.
You know you've watched too much LPL when you can immediately guess the weakness from his description of the lock.
Cast zinc? Low melting point
Cheap wafer lock? Raking attack
Clicks it when it locks? Shimming attack
Glad I'm not the only one this happens to.
Cast zinc alloy, I'm thinking one or two good whacks with a hammer and it falls off. The shim is easy and discrete though.
Master Lock? Everything
It's amazing seeing how your videos have progressed in quality and how much more confident you sound while presenting the locks and what you're doing. Thanks for everything you do for the lockpicking community!
Well explained as always, LPL. This is a truly pathetic piece of design - even cheap products should not be trivially bypassable like this.
Pathetic?? Some strong words you're using there, id love to see you invent something so i can call it a "pathetic piece of design" whatever that means buddy :)
@@noby5711 I think you're likely being sarcastic, but I'm not entirely sure. I realise product design can be a challenging job, that products are normally heavily cost engineered, also development and testing resources are often very limited. However, I would expect anyone designing security products to know about the most common weaknesses and attempt to design them out. Shimming trivially bypasses this lock, making it a pathetic design - it provides only an illusion of security.
This product could have been made more difficult to shim by adding a cap to the top casting that fully enclosed the ratcheting prong from the bottom part of the lock in the highest possible position, closing off the easy option of shimming the lock from the top. However, the lock would still have been shimmable from underneath so long as you could find a way to insert the shim. As LPL has shown previously, mechanisms that lock onto teeth and ratchet are inherently vulnerable to shimming so long as the insertion of a shim is not physically blocked. It would be far better to lock using an unshimmable ball beating based mechanism.
Trailers are typically high value targets - they are easy to move, often are valuable and usually have valuable contents. I appreciate that the market demands inexpensive trailer locks which might act as minimal deterrence to a thief (if there are two trailers side by side, one locked with this and one totally unlocked, perhaps this product would be enough to push a thief who knows nothing about locks to take the unlocked trailer). However, if I owned a valuable trailer, I'd be looking to use a high quality coupler lock and either a.high quality wheelclamp or (better, where it's practical) a high quality hardened chain through the frame of three trailer and an immovable locking point. I'd use high quality padlocks with these items. I realise such an approach is not cheap and it would involve carrying a lot of metal around to secure the trailer, but you should choose security products corresponding to the threat. If the trailer and its contents are worth £10,000 plus, it's likely worth spending £500 to secure that trailer in a way that will slow even a dedicated thief significantly.
@@noby5711 Well, there are several lock-picking channels out there. If I had to design a lock, the first thing I'd do would be to binge-watch LPL, BosnianBill, and a few others, trawl through black hat presentations, &c, and find out what *doesn't* work. Top of the list is poor tolerances. Another is brittle shells. I've opened several suitcases when I lost the keys by simply crushing the lock with a pair of pliers. (There's no point in putting a good lock on luggage that can easily be cut open.) I'd certainly join the nearest locksport group and give them my prototypes to test!
I like that your side hobby is literally just adding job security to your career.
The red paint is the only security deterrent!
The red ones get picked faster.
Hughes Home - I disagree it. Narayan Babu get's it. Red doesn't say, "Give it up", it says, "Free trailer!"
The bright red paint is very intimidating. I would have to avert my eyes when using a metal shim to bypass this lock...
You guys got it all wrong, red is so you can find where your trailer used to be easier. Where red lock is laying on ground as place keeper
Zip ties are harder to defeat.
Right? I don't even have a pair of scissors to cut zipties with because the scissors are in packaging that needs scissors to open.
actually, the same shimming attack might work on them
I love the quick and to the point videos you create. Well done sir.
Thank you for doing your videos. As far as I am concerned you are the gold standard on UA-cam. I have learned so much from you... The lock information is amazing however placing my emphasis on your communication skills. Once again thank you.
I did my due diligence and left a review on Home Depot's website :) LOL
Ha ha ha, "LPLVIEWER" good job.
@@HAWKTOMAS the nickname I used was "Human" LOL
Seems like they deleted my review... those bastards
@@valveanti-cheat9348 LPLVIEWER one was deleted too..
Now only HayK47 is there...
Have you ever thought about making a compilation video of the locks you think are best in class. For example, a padlock, a trailer hitch lock, a bike lock etc etc. I think it would get a lot of views and be very helpful for the viewers who haven't had the time to watch every video.
get em to pay you too
Thank you LPL! Love hearing your calm voice in the morning.
I feel like the lock can be made out of plastic and would still give the same amount of protection.
Honestly, probably more. My reasoning being that this can already be easily defeated by shimming and the core isn't much, which leaves its ONLY minor potential resistance being to a mechanical attack. Zinc will already melt and is easily cut, as well as being brittle. At least the right plastic composition, especially a fiber-reenforced one, likely wouldn't be prone to shattering with a blow like this would.
or made out of paper, so when users realize their "lock" is just garbage it can be disposed in an eco friendly way
Or try playdoh?
What about Play-Doh with a glass skeleton?
*Posted 4 minutes ago*
*Already has 410 views*
LPL with that mad loyal viewer base. :D
@Bman
25m and 4.5k
453 likes 3 dislikes.
12k and the dislikes are so obviously from tow smart😂😂😂
He bypassed it so fast, some of us had to watch it more than once. 😆
bmitch3020 you’re so right like 3 times for me😂😂😂
Omg I'm bringing this pos lock back to home depot. I have no box and it's like 3 months old but idk. Total waste of $ .. thanks to you LPL I sleep with one eye open lol
Do you ever think these lock companies possibly come across this channel by accident and think, “Well damn”?
They do, then they send him replacement locks because it was "from a bad batch", which he promptly defeats using the same attacks. Check out his video on the Viro lock from a few days ago.
aj4000au holy crap just watched it.
They had so many chances ha
This seems like the kind of product you'd buy when you WANT your trailer/boat/whatever to be stolen but you want plausible deniability when the insurance adjuster looks at your case.
Which bring the question that insurance companies may or may not have an approved list of products they will pay out if bypassed. Hmm.
@@bontrom8 Do any do that? I could see some insurance companies for higher cost things like cargo in shipping containers might actually have a lock standard.
This makes no sense. Whether you want it stolen or not. You are not required to lock your items in order to receive compensation on your policy. If you leave your keys in your car and it’s stolen. You’re still paid
@@black88lx That depends on your policy. The policy can be written however they like. For instance you're not going to be covered for a $5000 bicycle if you leave it unlocked in Manhattan.
@@John_Ridley That would be fair. But if you claimed that it was locked, how could they prove otherwise?
One of the most useful UA-cam channels EVER!
Thank you.
Thanks. My friend has this lock on his trailer, and he can't find the keys and he's been months trying to figure out where his mom put them. I was pretty sure you would have the answer...I'm glad I found you. 👍
This video has the feel of a Monty Python skit.
Thanks for keeping me from buying this, I've noticed it in the store but not looked at it yet. Now I won't bother!
Can you recommend a good way to secure a trailer, besides making the coupler removable and taking it off and removing the wheels? My dad always said a lock is to keep honest people honest, not to keep dishonest people out. So glad you are honest!
because of binge watching your videos i was actually able to guess the last 2 failures by looking at the lock
I have one of these, it is perfect for my use! My wife is extremely worried that someone will steal our nearly 30 foot long trailer in the middle of the night and the bright red POS stuck on the hitch helps her sleep much better.
So $30 or so for a good night's sleep...? 🤔 Not bad! 👍
Just make sure she never sees this video or you'll never hear the end of it.
@patrick henry lol
"This is the LockPickingLawyer, and what I'm about to do is destroy your business."
Still waiting for that sub 1 minute video.
Still waiting for that sub 10 sec video.
I mean, this easily could have been sub 30 seconds but he likes to give a little information on the lock first.
"Hello, this is LockPickingLawyer and what I have for you today is a new product from MasterLock."
I was honestly expecting to find a link to one or more videos here.
@@mamatmag Me too.
Nice. A master lock on the normal coupler retaining lever securing a cutoff trailer ball inside is literally more secure than a purpose-built lock.
i never though of doing something like that that is a good idea
come on guys at least make people find a wave rake to open your lock...
You can probably jiggle it open with any random key though :-)
This guy should be a consultant for every lock companies out there..
Thank you so much for that,we we're looking at that lock for our jetski trailer.. I think I'll get a different lock.🤔
I would honestly love to see how you approach a brand new product you havent seen before and see you figure out and try various methods to bypass or just figure out how it works
That has to be a world record, surely?
Nice work, LPL. 👍
Ouch..... didn't want that trailer anyway
LPL, you sound congested. Get well
He was at hacker summer camp (including Defcon). Everyone ends up getting sick afterwards.
@@Anonymouspock Hacker virus?
@@Anonymouspock do you mean defqon the hardstyle fest?
@@ShuffleToExpresss no defcon for hackers
The last trailer coupler lock I bought was a sod to insert and a sod to remove. And that's *with the key!*
However many thieves just rope the coupler to their hitch and drive away.
My current trailer has a tiny lock in the handle such that the whole barrel has to be removed. I've backed it up with a Denver Boot that I've modified with extra metal welded on. Of course someone could just lift the whole thing onto a flatbed! 😩 A fellow club member had an 8 seater people carrier stolen that way.
We have a couple of these locks on our trailers at work as a deterrent. We lost the keys for them a while ago so to take them off we just kick them off of the hitch and to put them back on we just rake them open real quick, (raking them is equally as fast as the key).
As soon as you moved it, immediately thought “glorified zip tie” and you proved right.
Saw this product yesterday and said to myself that this is so easy to pick or knock off with a sledge hammer.
Borrowed my neighbor's trailer a couple days ago. He couldn't find the key, for the hitch lock. It was a Master Lock. I had to exert a great deal of personal discipline, to not whip out my picks 🤨
This is why I use multiple locks to secure any trailer....... The longer it takes you to get the coupler free, the more likely it is you'll be caught...... Used the reverse logic when I worked for the cable company, the quicker I could get up and down the pole, the less likely anyone would know I had disconnected them..... Almost never used a ladder
@@christopherrosas2738
Spurs! Bad for the pole, but fun!
@@springbloom5940 no lie...... Hook it and book it...... Ofcourse I had so much experience with it, I was getting called out to other guys jobs to get at the poles they couldn't get to..... Pissed me off the one time I had to go to a guy with a busted ladder who could have called another tech with a ladder and he had the new guy with him..... So pissed I free climbed right in front of the new guy..... Yeah, you should never do that
I don't know why I am watching lock picking videos at 3am but its oodly satisfying
For all the flaws in this particular lock, I do understand the demand for ratcheting locks, since they are pretty convenient. It seems to me that they could be made secure by eg. putting a cog-wheel between the rack and the pall, or just anything to make the pall inaccessible from the outside, but I haven't seen that anywhere. Is there any lock that actually does this?
Damn, I just bought one today, It's going back!
Constantly blow my mind with how quickly you're able to defeat these locks
Great vid. Shows the ease with which anyone can get in.
Lock manufacturers shudder when their product end up on this channel and it's only 90 seconds long.
The irony, after the video a whole 2 minute trailer played, how amazing is that?
When the advertisement is longer than the actual video XD
Can you pick a keyless lock? the ones that only have a combination push buttons?
He does
Bright red lock that just screams, "Steal this trailer!" It really couldn't even look more cheap. I'm wondering how well it stands up to physical attack. What would be better a long pry bar or a sledge hammer. If the point of engagement is so slim that shim will defeat it, how much resistance can it muster?
You’ve made it look so easy. I can’t get mine to bypass and I’ve lost the stupid keys haha
I know the only purpose of a lock is to keep honest thieves honest, but I have a feeling that even an honest thief would argue in court, "I mean, if he didn't intend for someone to take the trailer, he'd have secured it with something more robust like a zip tie," and the judge would respond, "you make a fair point and you seem honest; Not Guilty, and you can keep the trailer."
"...you can keep the trailer" LMAO
I love your videos even though I don't come here often.I hope you continue to enjoy uploading and creating content for your viewers
Can you fit a zip tie or something more common down to bypass it?
You should show it open up with a single paperclip jiggler tool
A shim cut from a tin can maybe. Aluminum is too malleable. Feeler gauges are made of sturdy stuff, unlike that lock.
ScorpionRegent Maybe a nail file? Not a weapon and common to carry.
@@johnfrancisdoe1563 The metal of a nail file is sturdy enough, but it might be too thick. Feeler gauges are made to be a exact thickness. The best answer I got is try it. If it doesn't work, bite the bullet and buy a set of feeler gauges.
"Hi I'm the lockpicking lawyer, and the two ads that preceded this video lasted longer than it will take to open this lock."
Atleast they are consistent, bad design, bad lock, bad materials ;)
Literally the first lock I ever picked. That should tell you something.
So what do you do with it now? Return it? Scrap it? Garbage can?
On my way to "buy" a new trailer, thanks dude
It also looks like you could tilt it forward and that way slide it off. Have you tried this?
My neighbor just put one of these on his travel trailer yesterday. He was not happy when I showed him how easy it was to shim with just a piece of plastic.
This and the Reese's Tow Power lock were both easy to bypass. I'd be interested if there was a good trailer lock out there somewhere as I almost feel it's more secure to just chain the trailer wheels together than anything.
It also looks like that you can slide a pry bar underneath that Red Bracket and pry forward and simply roll it right off the top are the trailer hitch.
Is it one of these ch751 keys?
Wow! Shocked how quick it opened without the key. Did that company even try to make a good product?
This is why I have my RV trailer secured by Proven Industries coupler lock unit. Yes its expensive but not in the overall cost of the RV.
I can pay 15 years worth of insurance for the cost of those things....
This is the perfect lock for those who tend to loose their keys.
Is there like a UL listing for locks? A way to know a lock meets some basic level of security?
Still having trouble with my towsmart. Went and got feeler guages from oreilys. Which thickness do you use?
i just bought a Reese hitch lock, grey in color....hope it doesn't have a fatal flaw.
Pretty much all coupler locks are defeatable in seconds. If you have the one I think it is (yellow with a metal rod bent around the coupler) you can just use a prybar and pop it right off.
@@the-guy-on-your-moms-couch no, this is the 'heavy duty' version from Reese. Disc detainer lock. would love to see LPL review that one someday.
Douglas Brinkman the lock is the least of your worries about these things.
I would love to see you rake these too!
Utterly hilarious as always. Thanks LPL
I have to wonder if they were making a bad lock by design rather than by mistake in this case. Zinc lock, massive shim hole, easy shim geometry, wafer lock, and I'm sure a lot more errors which were ignored in this video.
makes you sure that some companies do not even test something before they hock it.
Finally, a lock that I can even pick!
So which lock would you recommend?
I would have just used a screw driver to pry the whole thing over the end of the coupler. Did not look like there was anything holding it on.
LPL YOU ARE SCARY I HOPE YOU NEVER CHOOSE THE DARK SIDE BECAUSE LOCKING YOUR DOOR WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH!
How thick can the shim be? Can you use a regular house key as a shim, or is that too thick?
So what trailer lock would you recommend?
That's such a convenient lock. You don't even need a key 🗝!
LOL that looks like a super good design.
If you want to protect your trailer, put a wheel boot on it. They're available and they're affordable.
You should do a video about your favourite locks or ones you think are the best.
Wow, Thanks! Time to take this off my boat trailer.
they should hire you as a pen tester for products
Is there one of these coupler locks that you would recommend?
The most popular locks are not good, because the lock-pickers train on them !
*The rare and unique locks are better,* because nobody trained for them.
What I do is it to disguise my custom locks, so that the brand is impossible to guess.
Considering that this only "locks" on one side, it looks like a leverage attack would be pretty successful as well.
You should travel around the World an pick the Locks from Subscribers that have lost their keys from Locks you never seen before and in real life conditions. 👍
When you design a prototype of these you need to hand it off to a few experienced lock smiths and ask them to break in to it. if they can do it with ease then maybe you should do some tweaking. Having a cutting torch will draw attention to you. But if its a shim attack no one will notice.
Holy crap. That gap... You could probably shim that with a flathead screwdriver.
Just bought myself a $5k trailer. Any recommendations on a good lock???
cheap lock for appearance/deterrence, alarm, and gps tracker.
coupler lock mandatory
Oh my lord. The second i heard the clicking as it went on, i immediately knew you could shim it and slide the lock off. Good god what a design flaw.
So it's a big zip tie. Cool