Hi,
My wife and I have remote door keys for our 3 year old Getz [recently purchased]. We like the car very much but have an odd problem which is that, due to the press button being on the side of the key, it sometimes gets accidentally pressed when it is in my wife's bag and when this is being moved around but it also occasionally happens to me when I accidentally press the button when putting the key in my pocket. Often we do not realise the button has been accidentally pressed until we return to the car to find it unlocked! We do not want to take the battery out of the key but is there something else we could do to eliminate this problem? We have spoken to our local dealer, to Halfords and to a local key agent without success.
Regards
John
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Sounds like Hyundai missed the autolock feature on this model. Every remote locking car I've owned has had it - if you accidentally unlock the doors they lock themselves if you don't open a door within 30-60 seconds.
Maybe HJ would like to check this when he next test drives a Hyundai. They may go OK, but if they miss a feature such as this it may be someone else driving it away.
There may be a way of sorting this with ECU reprogramming, but I'd expect a dealer to know how to do it.
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SWMBOs , now two year old, Getz 1.4 GSI did not even come with remote locking. We had to get a separate fob with a Toad remote control.
Must check the function on my own Hyundai which again has a separate fob.
Unlikely that someone cpuld drive the car away with coded keys being necessary to fire up the engine.
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If my i30 is unlocked and left, it soon locks itself. Maybe your car does?
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Ditto cee'd - haven't tried (yet!) putting coat with key in car and then walking away.
P.S. Don't try it with a BMW boot
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I had a car, and I'm not sure I can remember which one it was, might have been one of the Volvos come to think of it, but in any event it was in the early days of remote central locking.
Anyway, I have a habit on cold mornings, of letting the car defrost itself while I drink tea and admire its independence in these matters. This particular day it locked itself again with the engine running with, of course, the keys in the ignition. Fortunately it was on my drive at the time and I had a spare key in the house but it could at least have been embarrassing if I'd been away from home when it happened.
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are you absolutely sure the car isn't unlocking itself?
Not quite as bizarre as it first seems if things aren't quite straight in a door jamb.
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My Hyundai locks itself again in 30s ,if unlocked and not then entered. The Getz does not automatically re-lock.
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