(Solved) Customize locking function to prevent locking keys in car?
Edit: Figured it out. I remembered yesterday after locking myself out, I was driving somewhere else and noticed the door ajar light was on. If another door or the lift gate isn't fully closed, the anti-lockout feature doesn't work, allowing you to lock the doors with the door switch and then shut it without any warning beeps or auto unlocking like it normally would.
Is there a way to prevent the doors from locking when the vehicle detects the key is inside the cabin? Seems like most cars with passive entry/passive start (like my wife's Cruze) have this feature to prevent accidentally locking yourself out. This feature saves my bacon pretty regularly with the Cruze, since I often toss my keys in the cup holder instead of keeping them in my pocket, and then forget about them when leaving the car. I just found out the hard way my new CX-5 doesn't do this, at least not by default. I searched the manual and came up empty. The dealer also mentioned "you can't lock yourself out with this car," so I'm hoping it's a setting that I'm just not finding.
Edit: Figured it out. I remembered yesterday after locking myself out, I was driving somewhere else and noticed the door ajar light was on. If another door or the lift gate isn't fully closed, the anti-lockout feature doesn't work, allowing you to lock the doors with the door switch and then shut it without any warning beeps or auto unlocking like it normally would.
Is there a way to prevent the doors from locking when the vehicle detects the key is inside the cabin? Seems like most cars with passive entry/passive start (like my wife's Cruze) have this feature to prevent accidentally locking yourself out. This feature saves my bacon pretty regularly with the Cruze, since I often toss my keys in the cup holder instead of keeping them in my pocket, and then forget about them when leaving the car. I just found out the hard way my new CX-5 doesn't do this, at least not by default. I searched the manual and came up empty. The dealer also mentioned "you can't lock yourself out with this car," so I'm hoping it's a setting that I'm just not finding.
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