Is there a difference when locking the car single or twice with the keyfob?

4 minutes ago, toni8b said:

Is there a difference when locking the car single or twice with the keyfob?

 

One click deadlocks the car and activates the alarm. Twice removes the deadlocks and deactivates the alarm. 

I can still open the car from inside on single lock. Is this correct?

Hi Toni, If you engage the locks with a single press of the key fob, I believe that you will also be arming the security system sensors - if you move around in the car, the alarm will operate. I will check my car in a minute, but I believe that LOCKING the car with two presses of the key fob engages the deadlocks - but leaves the alarm off. As I say, I will check to confirm this shortly.

14 minutes ago, Warrior193 said:

Hi Toni, If you engage the locks with a single press of the key fob, I believe that you will also be arming the security system sensors - if you move around in the car, the alarm will operate. I will check my car in a minute, but I believe that LOCKING the car with two presses of the key fob engages the deadlocks - but leaves the alarm off. As I say, I will check to confirm this shortly.

 

Just back from checking - not quite as I said - what happens when locking with one press, the doors sound as if they deadlock and the alarm LED (on the top face of the drivers door) flashes rapidly for a few seconds, then starts an slow, intermittent flash a few seconds after that. If you lock with two presses, the doors sound as if they deadlock as before but there now appears to be a 30 second delay before the red LED indicator starts its intermittent flash. Guess its time for me to read the manual !

Mmmm, i follow this post interestingly, as my VRS was broken into just before Christmas and it baffles me how they got in. No alarm sounded and when i checked my dashcam as it records for 60 seconds after the ignition has been switched off you can clearly hear the car chirp as i locked it.

 

Keys are stored high away from the hands of my kids.

I think I have it worked out -  2 presses of the key fob lock button within 2 seconds engages the safelock function - in this mode the doors can be still be opened from inside, but are secure from outside, however the alarm will sound if the doors are opened  - this mode is for when you want to lock the car while someone is inside. The manual states that the internal sensors are disabled when safelock is enabled.

With one press, the doors are secure inside and out - therefore anyone still inside the car cannot open the doors in an emergency.

If I try single lock with key fob from inside the car, I can still open the door from the inside.

Double press is used when car on a ferry or flatbed etc. You want the car locked but don't want alarm going off.

Does the O3 still have the button on the drivers B pillar like the O2 to deactivate the alarm  when leaving the dog in the car or is that now covered by the double press locking?  

52 minutes ago, juan27 said:

Does the O3 still have the button on the drivers B pillar like the O2 to deactivate the alarm  when leaving the dog in the car or is that now covered by the double press locking?  

 

My FL does not. My pre-FL did though. I noticed on handover and the dealer admitted they'd never noticed and I was in fact the first customer to even question it. I assumed that a certain key press would do the same as the interior button. 

4 minutes ago, SC03OTT said:

 

My FL does not. My pre-FL did though. I noticed on handover and the dealer admitted they'd never noticed and I was in fact the first customer to even question it. I assumed that a certain key press would do the same as the interior button. 

 

I'm sure that must be the point of the double press. It sounds to be the same function as the old B pillar button.

Edited 9 August, 20178 yr by juan27

Just now, juan27 said:

 

I'm sure that must be the point of the double press. It sounds to be the same function as the old B pillar button.

 

I double press when the kids are sleeping in the car and the alarm hasn't activated so yes, I'm going with that logic. 

15 hours ago, SC03OTT said:

 

I double press when the kids are sleeping in the car and the alarm hasn't activated so yes, I'm going with that logic. 

Good...that's saved me some desperate handbook consulting the first time I need to lock with no alarm.

On 09/08/2017 at 00:25, Banjaminion said:

Mmmm, i follow this post interestingly, as my VRS was broken into just before Christmas and it baffles me how they got in. No alarm sounded and when i checked my dashcam as it records for 60 seconds after the ignition has been switched off you can clearly hear the car chirp as i locked it.

 

Keys are stored high away from the hands of my kids.

I also have this problem. To all intents it is locked, but not.   The night g ht my car got stolen i pushed the key fob but it was flat again so I locked it with the key and I would say they'd have been getting frantic because the supermarket shut in just 5  minutes. They pulled on the driver side door handle and left massive scratches under the handle, yet i have spoken to. many people who tell me that once that handle is locked it cannot be opened, without the key. So I would suggest you check your fuses because my alarm  did not go off either.

On 09/08/2017 at 14:39, SC03OTT said:

 

My FL does not. My pre-FL did though. I noticed on handover and the dealer admitted they'd never noticed and I was in fact the first customer to even question it. I assumed that a certain key press would do the same as the interior button. 

You now find this functionality on the MIB system.