Dan Albrich
Well-Known Member
Backdrop: It didn't occur to me that more settings than just say seat position (we have touring model) could be FOB specific. It would appear that the door lock/unlock preferences are also FOB specific, or that at least some of them are.
Scenario: I have a narrow garage, and its just my wife and I. We car-pool. The passenger waits for the driver to backup due to garage space issue. When I drive, 100% of the time, the car unlocks all doors (setting set), and when I backup my wife hops in passenger side and we drive to work. We do have walk-away auto lock set which in our case works 99% of the time. (I realize all of these preferences vary a lot by situation, and I am not saying anyone else should use the settings I choose.)
Now when my wife drives, she backs out of the narrow garage, and my passenger side door is always locked. She manually hits the unlock button and I get in.
The reason I thought this was a "mystery" is because I didn't know settings under vehicle are not all universal, they're per-driver, which is actually nice. i.e. if you worry about safety and maybe getting car-jacked, you want the car to maybe only unlock driver door, and auto-lock when not in "Park."
For testing sake I changed the vehicle settings using only her FOB and yep, I can get the same settings I use. After a chat with her, she feels safer with always doing a manual unlock which is fine with me of course. I just wanted to understand how it works. I still don't know precisely which settings are FOB specific, but it would appear that door/window settings or at least some of them are. FWIW.
-Dan
PS: What I think was actually happening is her setting to lock door when not in PARK, meant that when she backed up 10 feet out of the garage, my door was auto-locked, or she didn't have the setting to unlock all doors (either or both).
Scenario: I have a narrow garage, and its just my wife and I. We car-pool. The passenger waits for the driver to backup due to garage space issue. When I drive, 100% of the time, the car unlocks all doors (setting set), and when I backup my wife hops in passenger side and we drive to work. We do have walk-away auto lock set which in our case works 99% of the time. (I realize all of these preferences vary a lot by situation, and I am not saying anyone else should use the settings I choose.)
Now when my wife drives, she backs out of the narrow garage, and my passenger side door is always locked. She manually hits the unlock button and I get in.
The reason I thought this was a "mystery" is because I didn't know settings under vehicle are not all universal, they're per-driver, which is actually nice. i.e. if you worry about safety and maybe getting car-jacked, you want the car to maybe only unlock driver door, and auto-lock when not in "Park."
For testing sake I changed the vehicle settings using only her FOB and yep, I can get the same settings I use. After a chat with her, she feels safer with always doing a manual unlock which is fine with me of course. I just wanted to understand how it works. I still don't know precisely which settings are FOB specific, but it would appear that door/window settings or at least some of them are. FWIW.
-Dan
PS: What I think was actually happening is her setting to lock door when not in PARK, meant that when she backed up 10 feet out of the garage, my door was auto-locked, or she didn't have the setting to unlock all doors (either or both).