Double locking, Auto locking?

pertuan · 10-07-2006, 08:18 AM

I read about double locking in the manual but I cant seem to get it to work. The manual says that if I lock the doors twice (I'm assuming that I press lock on the remote twice), that I won't be able to open the doors from the inside. It doesnt work... or does the transponder have to not be in the area?

Also.... anyone know if we have auto locking whereby if we walk away from the car with our keys on us, it will lock itself after a while?

Forest Bear · 10-07-2006, 12:11 PM

I use to have this feature. You press lock on the fob twice to engage deadlocking or turn the key to lock twice. When the alarm was installed this feature disappeared.

It doesn't lock itself automatically if you walk away. It will lock itself if you press unlock but don't open any doors for 40 seconds. This is quite a thoughtful feature because you may be far from (the fob has quite a range in my experience) and not be within site of your car and you accidently unlock with the remote with fidgety hands.

As a consequence of no deadlocking I lock my $3500 notebook in a steel meshed pacsafe in the boot. Now I want the alarm removed because I would rather have deadlocking.

10-07-2006, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by pertuan

I read about double locking in the manual but I cant seem to get it to work. The manual says that if I lock the doors twice (I'm assuming that I press lock on the remote twice), that I won't be able to open the doors from the inside. It doesnt work... or does the transponder have to not be in the area?

Also.... anyone know if we have auto locking whereby if we walk away from the car with our keys on us, it will lock itself after a while?

I've tried and tried for over 2 hours and couldn't get this to work.

Forest Bear, was car was this deadlocking on?

Forest Bear · 10-07-2006, 07:03 PM

Its an LS Zetec.

You can deadlock two ways. By pressing lock on fob twice. Press-pause-press. Not Press-Press!

Or do it with the key. Turn to lock, let it spring back to original position, then turn again. You'll hear the door lock on the first turn and hear another locking noise on the second turn of the key.

gottafocus · 10-07-2006, 10:16 PM

i tried it in my 2006 lx hatch and i can't get it to deadlock. if i sit in the car i can still open the doors from the inside after pressing the remote lock twice with a pause in between! can anyone shed some more light on the subject?

whippet_zetec · 11-07-2006, 10:18 AM

not sure about the LS, but the LR has the double-lock feature - it works by pressing the lock button on the key twice, but not in quick succession:

PRESS ONCE: listen for the lock
PRESS ONE MORE TIME: the indicators will flash twice and you can hear the locks turn but not an audiable click like the first time.

It should be in your manuals, perhaps you need to set your key up to do it. I remember on my Falcon you could set your key up to unlock the drivers door only on the first unlock then all doors on the second press, or unlock all on the first press (you had a choice)...

Todd

Uni · 11-07-2006, 12:12 PM

can't get my 2006 CL to do it either.. maybe there's some sort feature which needs to be activated... i know in Dad's S40 there is a menu where u can select how u want the central locking system to work

Uni/.

11-07-2006, 03:19 PM

Looks like its a Zetec and Ghia thing, not avaliable on CL or LX.

gottafocus · 11-07-2006, 05:13 PM

i can get the unlock button to unlock either drivers door only or all doors by activating either mode by pressing unlock and lock buttons at the same time for 4 seconds on the remote. but still makes no difference to deadlocking!

pertuan · 11-07-2006, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackLS

Looks like its a Zetec and Ghia thing, not avaliable on CL or LX.

Well... thats abit crap. Its a software thing. Surely it isnt that much of a luxury item. More of a security thing... I'm gonna have a talk to the dealer I think.

11-07-2006, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by pertuan

Well... thats abit crap. Its a software thing. Surely it isnt that much of a luxury item. More of a security thing... I'm gonna have a talk to the dealer I think.

Hope they aren't different locks, even using the key, once locked there isn't much resistance turning the key to relock/deadlock.

11-07-2006, 06:17 PM

And yeah I don't think any of the Aussie focus have autolocking. I would have suggested look it up on FFOC to see if it can be added (deadlocking for that matter) but there site is down until Thursday.

Just interested (early build Focus may have had it excluded) post the month and spec Focus you have and whether it has deadlocking or not

Nov 05 LX - No deadlocking

pertuan · 11-07-2006, 07:44 PM

Feb 06 LX - No deadlocking. :(

jameseybuddy · 14-07-2006, 01:37 PM

Feb 06 Zetec has deadlocking. Easiest way to do it is lock you car with the key, and then lock it again with the button.

Zetec20 · 15-07-2006, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by gottafocus

i can get the unlock button to unlock either drivers door only or all doors by activating either mode by pressing unlock and lock buttons at the same time for 4 seconds on the remote. but still makes no difference to deadlocking!

another thing i never knew my car did.... it just gets more and more impressive

zetec · 20-07-2006, 10:36 PM

Oct 02 Zetec - Deadlocking and autolocking if door unopened. Also auto-locks the doors once you drive off and reach at least 5km/h.

Gotta love those Germans ;o)

rthomas · 23-07-2006, 08:01 PM

Does anyone know of a mod that will lock the territory's doors as you drive away?

23-07-2006, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by rthomas

Does anyone know of a mod that will lock the territory's doors as you drive away?

Have a look in the Territory forums, you probably won't find anything in there aobut this tho...

Useless (stingray car electronic) may be able to help you on this