One of the first things I changed with the new Yeti was to disable the automatic lock/unlock function ( hate being locked in a vehicle ) and change the locking/unlocking setting to operate on 'all doors'. I used my key which my wife and I both use as the main key.

My wife always carries the 'spare' key in her handbag. We haven't used the 'spare' key until this morning when she tried to unlock the car and found that only the drivers door would unlock. It would fully unlock with my key.

First thought was that the spare key was not synchronised to the car, if that's the correct term. So I switched the car on with the spare key and checked the computer settings on the MAXI DOT display which were still the same as before but the spare key still wouldn't unlock all the doors.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong but surely both keys should be able to do the same functions as shown on the MAXI DOT display?

The settings for door unlocking etc have to be set up with both keys.
That is so you can drive with unlocked doors if you so wish and your wife may choose to drive with the security of having locked doors.

 

Edit:  If driving with locked doors you are always able to open doors from inside and if in an accident the doors will unlock so can be opened from the outside

Edited 20 December, 20196 yr by Urrell

The two keys are independent of each other,  and the car remembers which key was used to select which settings.  You must use your "spare" key in the ignition to select the same settings as the "main" one if you want them to be the same.  The idea is that if two different people use two different keys,  the car will know what settings are preferred by the owner of the key currently in the ignition.

Edit:  Urrell and I were typing answers at the same time!

Edited 20 December, 20196 yr by Zarniwoop

I have put the "spare" key in the ignition and started the engine and then gone into the settings. The settings were the same as the main key ie set to unlock "all doors" but when I then switched off the engine, locked the car, the spare key still would only unlock the drivers door! I then retried the main key again which worked as it should.

Could it be the battery in the "spare" key though the little red light seams to flash OK?

The key which is “active” is the one used to unlock it (rather than the one in the ignition).  So unlock it with the spare key, then try the various settings.

I hadn't thought of it that way! I'll give it a go in the morning.

Sorted!

 

Unlocked car this morning with the spare key, changed the settings to as we want, job done!

I didn't realise before that I had to unlock the car with the same key before putting it in the ignition. Obvious when you know which order to do things!

 

Thanks for everyones help.

 

Russ

If you have the electric seat option, it moves the seat and exterior mirrors as well to go with the key used to unlock the car, before you get in. Ideal when two different drivers use the vehicle

It's a pity we don't have the electric seats because the seat adjustment ( and interior mirror ) is the first thing we have to do after a change of driver!

I still have to do the interior mirror by hand!

32 minutes ago, kenfowler3966 said:

I still have to do the interior mirror by hand!

 

Well you have to have some exercise!!

Pumping the seat up and down gives you a bit more exercise !!

 

We had to do the same with our last Yeti, not unsurprising, but what was strange that with our previous vehicle to our first Yeti , a Honda CRV, we didn't have to change the seat between drivers at all!