Issues with car locking automatically

Phames11 said:

Was anyone else in the car at the time

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Cx-5david said:

So I've read the owners manual twice now regarding the lock features of the car but still wondering about this. My wife started the car and had the keys in her pocket, went inside our house for a minute or 2 and came back out. She heard the beeping the car does when leaving with the keys but didn't think anything of it. When she came back out all doors were locked except the trunk latch and couldn't unlock the car with the keys. What do you do in this situation if you accidentally take the keys? I tried to re simulate this myself and couldn't do it though. Thanks in advance.


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DustyFizz said:

Another one for you.
While washing the car I heard a "thunk". All the doors locked while I was leaning in the cargo area, the hatch was open. Fob was in my pocket.

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blackcx5 said:

this is normal, it's the auto lock / walk away feature, if you have remote in your pocket, and ALL doors are closed, you will hear one beep that confirms all doors are closed if you don't hear a beep something is ajar most likely the trunk lid, after you hear the one beep and you move like 3 feet away from the car you will hear one more beep and the lights flash once confirming all doors and trunk are locked.

you're wrong in your post when you say the trunk is unlocked...... it just seems that way, it will only open if you have a key in your pocket, try it...... make sure all doors are locked as above then place your key inside your house like 10 feet away, then go try to open your trunk.... you won't be able to....


in the settings I believe you can disable the auto lock/walk away feature if you don;t want it..... I love the feature.....

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blackcx5 said:

this is normal, it's the auto lock / walk away feature, if you have remote in your pocket, and ALL doors are closed, you will hear one beep that confirms all doors are closed if you don't hear a beep something is ajar most likely the trunk lid, after you hear the one beep and you move like 3 feet away from the car you will hear one more beep and the lights flash once confirming all doors and trunk are locked.

you're wrong in your post when you say the trunk is unlocked...... it just seems that way, it will only open if you have a key in your pocket, try it...... make sure all doors are locked as above then place your key inside your house like 10 feet away, then go try to open your trunk.... you won't be able to....


in the settings I believe you can disable the auto lock/walk away feature if you don;t want it..... I love the feature.....

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CX-5um said:

In the OP's scenario, someone inside the car can lock the doors. We do sometimes when I need to run inside the store for something and I tell my wife sitting in the back seat with child to lock the doors while waiting for me. Car and AC is running.

Additionally when I pickup the kid from daycare, I leave the car with AC running on. I manually lock the door with the key....then enter the (cool) car by manually unlocking the door with key. Especially helpful when temps reach 110+ degrees in my region.

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