Auto locking
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St. Jude Donor '17
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Funny, you can turn off the auto locking, but you cannot completely turn off the auto unlocking.
You can set it where the passenger side does not unlock when you approach the car, but the driver door will always unlock.
Made me wonder if the car was really locking, and I had to put the fob far enough away to test if the door was staying locked.
You can set it where the passenger side does not unlock when you approach the car, but the driver door will always unlock.
Made me wonder if the car was really locking, and I had to put the fob far enough away to test if the door was staying locked.
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by accident. I have it set so horn beeps to assure me it locks. Once I walked away-whoops no beep- went back, door wasn't fully closed (damn airtight cars
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I've been spoiled
Both my wife's Prius and, of course, my '14 have doors you don't need to press any buttons to unlock.....I have my son's 2010 Subaru Sti for a few months (fun to drive) and I HAVE TO PULL OUT THE FOB AND PRESS THE BUTTON TO GET IN, how archaic! (I won't even dwell on a few of my first cars where I could only get in by opening the door from the inside)
Yup, I've got it good
Yup, I've got it good
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That's how I feel whenever I get into a rental car... "I have to use a KEY to start it? How quaint!"
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At first I liked the auto-lock feature until one day I went out quickly to retrieve something out of my 2015 and couldn't get in. I have 2 garages, one double and one single, that are attached to each other with the largest garage attached to the house. Of course the Vette is parked in the single,furthest garage. So I have switched back to the FOB system to my dislike.
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St. Jude Donor '15-'16,'18
I have mine set to autolock with horn beep but it has never auto unlocked. I have to either push the Fob button or grasp the door handle and push in the rubber thingee.
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Auto unlock only enables the door pad aka, rubber thingee.
If it was still locked, you wouldn't be able to open the door.
Were you expecting a honk when it auto-unlocks or something?
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That is what people are somewhat erroneously calling "auto unlock." It is not a true auto unlock where the car unlocks as you approach it.
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The old gen Vette's autounlock was annoying ... physically unlocking and then re-locking the doors every time you walked by.
C6/C7 got it right.
Last edited by Kent1999; Aug 25, 2017 at 05:18 PM.
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The car doesn't constantly quest for the fob. When approaching the car, it does not do a thing until a pad on the door or a button on the fob is pressed. If the door pad (or trunk/hatch) button is pressed, the car's antenna on one of those three places (whichever is pressed) will send a very low powered query for the fob, and then the fob answers, and the door is unlocked.
If you press a button on the fob, the range is much greater, and the car, if it's in range, will unlock the door(s) or the hatch.
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St. Jude Donor '15-'16,'18
Unlocking the door is not the same as actually opening it. At least this is my definition. You can unlock the door with the fob but you have to open it by pushing on the rubber pad. It will open whether you have unlocked it with the fob or if it still locked. Peace.
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If you press the "unlock" on the fob, it just sets that value to "no fob needed" (simplified, but you get the idea).
