boot locked or unlocked?

col · Post by **col** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 10:39 am

I'm sure someone will know this, i use the boot, get in the car and drive off, then i stop and take keys out of ignition and i just press the button on the boot and it opens again but sometimes it is locked and i ahve to use the key. why is this?

col

Maciek · Post by **Maciek** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 10:49 am

Hmmm ... strange.
It should be open till You don't close Your car by pressing button on Your key.

Greetings
Maciek

Frosty · Post by **Frosty** » Thu Apr 11, 2002 10:51 am

If you've locked the interior doors that will lock the boot. I suspect that the times that you find the boot is locked it is because the interior has been locked since you last opened the boot.

If this doesn't answer your problem, get it checked out

Cheers

Frosty

Auto · Post by **Auto** » Tue Apr 16, 2002 11:31 pm

This boot locking system is a safeguard against someone opening your boot while you're sat in a traffic jam and extracting the contents. Don't knock it!

Once you've unlocked the boot with the key it stays unlocked until you lock the whole car with plip, dashboard button or key in door lock.

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 11:09 am

Ni'cc'k, I can think of only one scenario for the reason why the boot doesn't unlock with the central locking.

Supposing you parked up, locked your car with the roof down. Well I imagine it may be possible for an opportunist to reach in and either press the c/l dash buton or maybe pull the central locking pillars up in the hope of releasing your central locking and ultimately the contents of your boot (were the boot to release with the rest of the central locking).

Only guessing of course, never tried it myself (not being a car thief) so I may be wrong.

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 1:15 pm

Hi Ni'cc'k, your right, pulling up the door pillars when roof is down doesn't work the central locking if the car's deadlocked.

But the central locking will unlock by pulling up the door pillars if the car is only locked up with the roof down (without the additional deadlock in place).

Maybe the boot not unlocking with the central locking is for people like me who may lock up with the roof down but forget to sometimes deadlock the car.

I have got long arms though and been known to be a bit of a monkey so maybe that's why I qualify more tham most to be able to lean over to open my car up.

Thanks for the support, won't be picking up the car until Sept/Oct, plenty of time to enjoy my cc in the sunshine.

Robbie.

Burge · Post by **Burge** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 1:56 pm

From a security point of view I think the boot locking has been done the best way. I don't forget to lock my boot by doing the following:

unlock the boot with the key, push the button to open the boot, immediately lock the boot again. This way when you shut the boot it is locked already!

Burge

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 7:29 pm

exactly what i do - and if you ever try to lock your car with the plip and you hear a warning noise and the doors don't lock, then it's because you forgot to close the boot lid properly while cleaning the car

derek

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 9:45 pm

Silly question maybe, but to deadlock do you press the remote button once or twice? I'm sure I remember reading in the manual just to do it once, but on other people's Peugeots (306s etc) I think they need to do it twice. I suppose I could go out and test it when the roof's down, but it's raining here in Swindon at the moment so it's not really an option...

Freedive · Post by **Freedive** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 9:48 pm

Big button once, then small button once. Unless it's different on new models? (But don't do it with someone in the car, cause they really can't get out!)

Auto · Post by **Auto** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 9:49 pm

Gareth

On new specification cars the first press of the locking button on the plip key deadlocks. If you want locking without deadlock (so that it is possible to open the doors from inside the car) you have to press the locking plip again within, I think, 10 seconds

Gareth · Post by **Gareth** » Wed Apr 17, 2002 11:48 pm

Cheers - looks like this is yet another thing Peugeot have fiddled with on the newer models. Still, think of all the time I'll save over the lifetime of the car only having to press one button rather than two...

p evs · Post by **p evs** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 2:19 am

well is it one press or two for deadlocking

who knows ??????????????????

we just dont know

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 5:58 am

just press once on new spec CC's

Antoni · Post by **Antoni** » Thu Apr 18, 2002 10:55 am

Sorry Nick,

Derek is right. On the new cc's the lock button on the remote deadlocks first - If you press it again, you can hear the locks as you say, but this is them UN-deadlocking.

Try it with the roof down, on the first press, you cannot unlock the car by pulling on the lock button.

I was advised by Peugeot Master Technician as I had asked this question - also says this in the manual. It is different from the 306 & 406's, even on mulitlplex.

Antoni