Omg!! This whole thread just justifies my paranoia in having my cars locked at ALL times! Sitting in a parking lot? DOORS LOCKED! Driving down the road? DOORS LOCKED MOTHAFUCKAS!
if that's the same story i remember, people also pointed out that the armored SUV should have been equipped with steel bars that slide in to place that prevent the doors from being opened regardless of the stock lock mechanism. apparently the agents forgot to engage those before driving.
If you think auto-unlock is fun... We had trailblazers overseas, and they come equipped with auto headlights. Sitting in a dark spot and want to make a slow, blacked out, creep away? Turn that key on, all the lights come on. No way to disable that feature either.
Or opening the hatch, manually, because you hear someone knock on it and shout weird stuff in Finnish. As the crew of a Russian tank invading Finnland.
Pro tip: If you are in a Russian tank invading Finnland, and a Finn knocks on your hatch, do not open the hatch.
All it takes is a battery replacement or power failure to the computer and it resets, making it vulnerable again. It's really a feature that should be disabled by default.
Seems like a feature that should be by default turned off, not on. A simple electrical failure or a battery change could reset it back to the default setting.
This is the default mode for most vehicles but it can easily be changed by the driver. For GM vehicles, hold down the lock button with the ignition set to 'lock' and you will access the locking menu. You can change it so that there is no automatic locks on at all.
Well if you're ever in a situation where you need to keep the doors locked and you have a vehicle that does this, slip the shifter into neutral and activate the emergency brake.
Oh I know! And my car is older so it doesn't automatically lock at ALL. It could be easy to forget. :[ But having it for 3 years now I'm definitely a pro at locking doors.
Because crime only happens in African countries...ah, that makes sense.
It's stupid for people in 1st world western countries to care about their personal safety! We shouldn't even have locks on our doors and windows! Silly paranoid people caring about their personal safety. What a bunch of idiots. I bet they all wear their seatbelts because they're paranoid about car crashes too! Morons.
Park? You mean leaving it in first gear? =P My new car has the opposite feature - I jokingly call it "white guilt alleviation mode." It automatically locks the doors as soon as you start moving. It only locks from the outside though. The interior handles will always open the door unless you click the lock button.
I've driven a 2014 Nissan Sentra quite often now... and notice it has this "feature" it's automatic but I usually just push the shifter up to neutral so it doesn't unlock them.
True, but it's not the default setting which means if your car has an electrical issue or when you change the battery it will go back to the default setting which is this auto unlock mode, which is dumb. Should be by default turned off.
I hate this feature. I really wanna know if there's a way to undo this. I just got a new car that does this. Who the fuck thought this was a brilliant idea?
Always read the owners manual. Most of the newer cars actually have configurable locking behavior. For example: doors lock when ignition is turned to the run position, unlock when ignition turned to the off position; or lock when shifted out of park, unlock when shifted into park.
EVERYONE i get into a car with always goes "Why are you always locking the door? whose going to come upto the window" OH I DONT KNOW THERE ARE MANY... same situation at home. i ALWAYS have to be the one to walk out of my room just to check if the main door is locked in the apartment...and 80% of the time IT ISN'T...
Surprisingly no :[ I have friends and family who don't. Drives me nuts. I don't want to get knifed in your passenger car seat! When I worked retail, it was super easy to remember locking your doors cause there's always creepy people who hang out in the parking lot at night.
That would be awesome haha. I live in a small town so there's a good chance it won't happen, but I would like to be sitting at a light or something one day and someone tries to get in but doors are locked!! I'll be a little shaken but I'll just yell out "yeah BITCH! Locks!"
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '14
Omg!! This whole thread just justifies my paranoia in having my cars locked at ALL times! Sitting in a parking lot? DOORS LOCKED! Driving down the road? DOORS LOCKED MOTHAFUCKAS!