Automatic Locking

AxsMan · Post by **AxsMan** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 1:03 pm

Thanks Paulo, your 'typing frenzy' could well be right! My guess is that I have somehow switched this facility on, and If I can find out how to switch it off, I might keep it or I might not. I just don't like not knowing!

(I couldn't find anything about it in the manual

)

ST

paulo · Post by **paulo** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 1:21 pm

No worries!

You can bet your life the Monkeys, sorry Peugeot highly trained engineers, will be scratching there heads in puzzlement (that a word?) when you show it to them!

Let us know!

paulo · Post by **paulo** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 1:23 pm

Oh and if you wouldn't mind asking when your there if they could tell you how you can switch it on, or off as this would be usefull to know! Thats if we are able to do this?

Thanx!

AxsMan · Post by **AxsMan** » Mon Nov 04, 2002 1:24 pm

Don't worry, I'll be sure to ask!

Pauline · Post by **Pauline** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 7:23 pm

Blimey, you jammy so and so, I paid a small fortune to install a Clifford so it does that

AxsMan · Post by **AxsMan** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 7:35 pm

Pauline,

It's not all joy, today the central locking started behaving really strangely. locking itself immediately after i unlock it, and unlocking itself after i press 'lock" !!

My wife actually was locked in the car for a minute when the deadlocks came on and the inside handles and oval button wouldnt release them!

Fortunately switching the ignition off and on cleared the glitch. I'm just glad it's going in to tomorrow, 'cause at the moment it's a gamble whether I will be able to get in (if I'm out), get out (if I'm in), lock it (if it's open) or open it (if it's locked)

I'm just starting to appreciate the true joys of owning a Peugeot!

Happy Motoring

ST

P.S. Whats a 'Clifford' ?

Pauline · Post by **Pauline** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 7:54 pm

It's the dog's doodahs of aftermarket alarms, even if I do say so myself. Cos a guy at work was carjacked

... so mine autolocks - when I want it to - that's the difference I think!

AxsMan · Post by **AxsMan** » Tue Nov 05, 2002 9:09 pm

So yours lacks the frisson of excitement that goes with not knowing whether the locks will open or close in a kind of central locking 'gamble feature' now provided as standard with multiplex cc's?

You don't know what you're missing (and you don't want to!).

ST

paulo · Post by **paulo** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 10:57 am

It would be cool to get locked in!! It would give you a good excuse to put the roof down and climb Indiana Jones stylie!

AxsMan · Post by **AxsMan** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 11:01 am

Raiders of the lost Key Fob?
Indiana Jones and the Peugeot of Doom?

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

paulo · Post by **paulo** » Wed Nov 06, 2002 11:22 am

@ AxsMan

AxsMan · Post by **AxsMan** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 12:09 am

Update!

Well the multi-talented and highly trained Peugeot technicians came up trumps. They diagnosed a misbehaving central locking actuator and errant moisture sensor on the front screen. (not too difficult really as I had told them the central locking was going berserk and the wipers went nuts in the wet!)

The bad news is that they don't have a new actuator or moisture sensor in stock so I don't get the car back till tomorrow. And it looks like I won't have auto locking any more

since it was a glitch not a feature!

At least I should stand a chance of being able to get out of the car without opening the roof!

Another update to follow after I get the car back!

ST

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 12:19 am

think yourself lucky you have a CC with a folding roof - imagine trying to climb out of the window of a puma

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 2:17 am

I think me partners merc coupe doors lock automatically once you get over 10 mph, something about avoiding carjackings. For added security with one press of the key fob it turns on the internal lights and fogs to guide you to your car at night and also only opens the drivers door, but with 2 presses, it will unlock the rest of the car. If you hold the key fob down, it opens up both front windows and sunroof to let the hot air out before you get into it during those hot summer days. Clever those Germans.

Robbie.

AxsMan · Post by **AxsMan** » Thu Nov 07, 2002 10:17 am

"...lock automatically once you get over 10 mph, something about avoiding carjackings..."

So if the cunning car-jacker just uses the crafty approach of opening your door when the car is stationary he will defeat the clever German security system! Only those carjackers who try to wrench open your door while you are in the fast lane of the M25 (doing 12mph) will be repelled

Vorsprung durch technic (as the daft marketing people like to say)

ST