Yale Y500/187/1 - Combination Key Safe Box - Wall mounted

There seem to be a lot of key safes available, and after a bit of deliberation I decided to get this one for outside an elderly relatives house. The combination of a known brand and the features I wanted helped me to decide. The packaging isn't great - the kind of hard plastic where you need strong scissors to get into. It comes with screws which is helpful. It was easy to put on the wall with a drill and screwdriver. I like the tough angled outside which is a good deterrent for trying to force entry. The combination lock seems of good quality and the environmental guard is a good touch. Since putting it up it's needed to be used a few times, so has proven its worth. Letting people know the code has been enough for them to figure out what to do. The only negative part is that it's quite small inside, and the lock mechanism encroaches significantly on this. For a normal house key or two it's fine, but probably not good if you need many larger keys to open a door.

I have bought 3rd of these, This is very well made and price is very reasonable.

A solid lock, very sturdy aluminium, rounded edges with a gradual slope improving security and a nice push to open/close mechanism. There are 2 things I don’t like where one is the lock will spring open as soon as you enter the correct code, where others like master lock actually make you push a button to see if the code is correct, this would allow for easier “break in” as you could shuffle the numbers at random waiting for the spring. I know it’s very unlikely to happen, but you need to make sure you shuffle the numbers a lot to minimise this risk. Another thing is the lid doesn’t close all the way, it has a tiny clearance, but big enough to put a precision phillips screw driver head in, and if you know the design of the lock, this is a big vulnerability. Overall these key safes are meant to give a potential thief a hard time getting in and allow owner a nice and easy opening, and despite the things I mentioned above, a random pedestrian without any specialised toolset is not capable of breaking this open due to a fairly thick aluminium casing, and the spring mechanism is way better for ease of use compared to leaver pulling which can hurt your fingers especially when it’s cold outside.

Good quality

Bought this for an elderly relative, and spent many hours researching before I decided on this one. I would probably have preferred a push button model, but I wasn't impressed by the security on these. It surprised me that each digit is simply set as either active or not active. This means that a) the code can't use the same digit twice (could be an important consideration...) and that the code digits can be entered in any order. There are probably still many possible combinations, but not as many as one might imagine. Having decided on the 4 digit wheel type lock I then researched these. Without wanting to give too much away, I googled the name of the key safe I'd decided on, only to find a serious flaw in its security. Doing a similar search for the Yale Y500 I could find no similar flaw. That could be because, if the lack of reviews on Amazon is any indication, it's a relatively new model. Looking closely, it perhaps doesn't have the same drawback as the other model, but then I'm no safe cracker. Still, fingers crossed... The biggest problem I found was getting it out of its packaging. I know Yale have a reputation for security, but that's taking it too far! Once out, the first thing I noticed was how big it is. Most of this is the black surround, which is heavy duty plastic. This is probably intended to make it difficult to lever it off the wall. It would certainly slow down anyone trying. It comes with 4 screws which would be fine for wood, but like most people probably I was fitting it to brick. Yale recommend using anchors. These will be far more secure than the screws with wall plugs (the latter not supplied). I found M6 the right size, but make sure you get them with a head for a screwdriver rather than the bolt type. There isn't room in the safe to turn any type of spanner. Setting the combination is easy, and the wheels can be concealed by a cover which is slid up. I was tempted to remove 1 star as the wheels and numbers are rather small for elderly eyes and fingers to see and turn. However, that would perhaps be unfair as they are no smaller than those on other key safes, and actually the prime need for key safe is for relatives, friends and carers, for whom it should prove no problem. When I tried I found there is plenty of room inside for at least one Yale and one mortice key. Finally, another plus point. To open the key safe, enter the code, and then press the circle above the combination. (looks like a button in the picture but is just indented on the lid). This causes the lid to spring open. To close the safe you have to push the safe closed and jumble the digits. If you don't do this, the lid will spring open again, making sure the safe can not be left unlocked. Hopefully I've made a good choice, but I hope too that it's never put to the test.

Perfect for our needs. Used occasionally when visitors are arriving.

Unit itself is fine but be aware screws provided are not very substantial philips head stripped ,fortunately in was able to use my own screws also no plugs are provided

Very pleased with this keysafe. Had it a while now and still good as new. I fit 6 keys inside. Easy instructions and you can change the code. Withstands rain, and frost

produit de très bonne qualité

Provided it is securely mounted to a solid surface, the unit does the job. Controls can be a bit fiddly but not onerous. Room for up to six average size house keys on smallish key ring. A good feature is that the door cannot be closed without moving controls away from the opening combination. A security issue arises because the enclosure is not entirely metal. A section at the rear is covered by the outer plastic casing, which while very solid, could be penetrated and the keys removed if the unit was able to be easily removed from the mounting surface. So, ensure it is difficult to remove. Overall, a solid unit that is easy to reprogram the combination of which there are about 10,000.

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Security safe box stopped working a month after using it. Very disappointed.

Simpel goed.