I had a 2004 Passat that opened with a piece of wire on the button and a 2008 Audi A4 B8, in fact our Fabia is also openable by the press of the button to unlock, this is a 2011 car, so we will have to disagree on this one..

Perhaps I didn't word my post correctly, I should have said "they all HAD that feature" It is a very common thing to have fitted to a car and I have come close a couple of times to locking my keys in the boot over the years. Very easy when you work outdoors and you take your heavyweight coat off and as it is probably wet, put it in the boot before getting into the car.................except of course unless you pressed the dreaded 3rd button to open the boot in th4 first place!!

Edited 17 November, 201312 yr by Lady Elanore

And don't do what I did last week with my 6 week old yeti, lock the doors with your dog in the back,  unless you wanted to hear your alarm and flashers going off in sainsburys car park.!!

I never use the boot unlock, only because it is the first car I've had with this feature, all others have just had 2 buttons. I think I shall avoid using it. Only ever locked keys in a car twice, the last time though was on a trackday at Silverstone, Mrs FW came all the way from Southampton to bring the spare 

IIRC the KESSY system recognizes that the keys are in the car and won't allow it to lock, or am I making things up  :think:

And don't do what I did last week with my 6 week old yeti, lock the doors with your dog in the back,  unless you wanted to hear your alarm and flashers going off in sainsburys car park.!!

 

I think you can do this if you remember to use the motion sensor deactivate button on the B pillar by the drivers seat. (?)

And don't do what I did last week with my 6 week old yeti, lock the doors with your dog in the back,  unless you wanted to hear your alarm and flashers going off in sainsburys car park.!!

 

 

I think you can do this if you remember to use the motion sensor deactivate button on the B pillar by the drivers seat. (?)

Or press the lock button on the remote twice.

I think you can do this if you remember to use the motion sensor deactivate button on the B pillar by the drivers seat. (?)

 

+1. Turns off the interior monitoring sensor. Lock* the car and people/animals can still move round without the alarm going off.

 

*Double press though to turn off deadlocks.

I remember selling Nissan Micras with keyless start and entry, and they would not let you lock the keys in the car at all. Not bad considering it was around 10 years ago. Progress eh?

IIRC the KESSY system recognizes that the keys are in the car and won't allow it to lock, or am I making things up  :think:

 

Even if you are Lee you'll have to go a long way to match the creativity that SUK regularly achieve.

 

Fred

I locked the keys in the boot of my last Yeti (a 10-plate) and can verify that the RAC can't pick the lock, that the interior door handles are disabled and that the central lock/unlock button is also disabled.

 

This was in Devon, and the spare was in Surrey. Somewhat inconvenient.

Modern BMWs let you open the locked doors with a phone call to the appropriate help line (assuming you have the full telematics package)

to match the creativity that SUK regularly achieve.

 

Fred

 

Must

 

Try

 

Harder  

The non KESSY cars have some form of knowing the key is in the car albeit it does not reach the boot...  Say you have selective unlocking of the driver's door only when you press the Open button once (and twice for all the doors).  I do. Say I got in ONLY opening the driver's door. Once you drive off and you stop and open a door ALL the doors and boot unlock. BUT when you have not set off yet you might realise you want your sat nav or something from the boot. You get out to go to the boot and it is locked as you used the selective unlocking. So I walked back to the front and pressed the boot unlock button on the key since I did not want to lean all the way in to the button by the handbrake - the key was still in the ignition but the car was not running. Nothing. Press the Unlock button - nothing. I've also tried this with the key out of the ignition and holding it near the steering wheel - nothing works on the key. So the car can sense the key being inside or outside around the steering wheel but not out back sadly.

 

But back OT: I NEVER use the middle button when I approach the car for the very reason outlined above. Furthermore unless you change the boot mechanism's unlocking method via VCDS (my Yeti has the stupid way as standard where you still have to press the boot button on the hatch to open it) to the totally unlocked way I had on my Audi (where you can then lift the boot from any corner WITHOUT having to press the boot open button on the boot itself) - the middle button is useless as it still involves pressing the boot button after unlocking it. Doh.