Auto Door locking on a Mondeo

You posted the exact same question 3 days ago and were given a link with comprehensive instructions on it.

why would you want the doors to lock when the car drives off ?

Very true............

Sorry, not enough sleep, etc.......

I've now read my original post & the informative replies.

Thanks to all who contributed, David C.

in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, "?(?¿?)? BORG" slurred :

Because you are an undereduated american and have accepted your paranoia programming and are therefore absolutely convinced that everyone outside your car is desperately trying to get you, and that when you stop at traffic lights they will open the door and molest you before stealing your mobile phone, your kidneys and any small children you happen to be carrying. Basically for all the same reasons that you would live in gated communities.

Perfectly sound security feature. It's easy enough to accidentally press the "unlock" button on your remote as you put your keys/remote back in your pocket/handbag/purse etc. Would you really want your car to be left unlocked as a result as you walk away ?

Tell that to my colleague who was carjacked in Manchester.....

I never like the idea of running with the doors locked. Sometimes I've stopped at traffic lights in rather dodgy areas and I've locked the doors but I've made sure to unlock them as soon as possible afterwards. For the simple reason that, $deity forbid should I have a crash, I want the emergency services to be able to get to me as quickly and as easily as posssible.

That's what the Jaws of Life are for :-> - besides, I thought that locks were required to unlock on severe impact in any case, just as doors are required to be designed so that on impact they don't deform into unopenable shapes.

Cheers,

They dont care if they damage your lock etc, if involved i a serious accident, chances are the doors wont open anyway without jaws of like type thing, if its simple they break the glass. I now drive around with door locks, had many drunks/smack heads etc try my car doors while im in, and with a dog.

However...

I stopped outside a supermarket and left my wife in the car. As I put the keys in my pocket, I accidentally locked the doors. So I unlocked them again, and went into the supermarket.

SWMBO was not amused at being locked in a car with the alarm going off.

If you want to wait for the fire brigade

If they autolock

They're actually supposed to stay shut to stop you being thrown out.

in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net, " cupra" slurred :

Yes, carjackings/mobile phone/handbag snatching do occur, but pretty infrequently. There is, of course, an argument for locking your doors when you are driving through an area where you might expect there to be a risk, but it's something you can do easily enough on the rare occasions that you need it - having an automated system do it every time you drive suggests that the risk is widespread. The american market essentially demands the auto-doorlocking feature as a necessity, i.e. they believe that they are at risk all the time.

I'm fairly sure that the penalties of living in a paranoid culture are worse than the actualy crimes they are paranoid about.

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I've often wondered this. Much is made of the impact sensors unlocking the car in the event of a crash, but of course, that doesn't cover driving into rivers, being hit from some other direction that doesn't set of the airbags, fire or any number of other alarming things.

Like a accident or a breakdown - you cant exactly pick when they happen unless you yourself know something the rest of us dont .

Where were her keys ? (Mine are *never* out of my pocket.)

In message , John Laird writes

She's not insured to drive that car, so she doesn't have a set of keys for it.

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My wife ain't insured for my car but she still has a key for it, and damned useful it is, too.

There's a balance of risk involved. In an accident with the door locked, they are less likely to fly open and part company than if they are unlocked. This protects you a lot more as the doors help to tie the car's structure together as well as keeping out bits of other cars / fenceposts / etc.

There is also the bonus that nobody can open the passenger door to nick yer handbag, but that's a quite different thing, probably best to let them take the stuff rather than smash the window - tip, don't leave things on display even when yer in the car. Or have a wheel brace under the seat and the willingness to brandish it before things get that far.

Risk of the door staying locked against the emergency services is fairly minor, the security works in a way that tends to unlock in a severe shunt and anyway the car deforms so the door quite possibly doesn't unlock anyway and needs someone to take you out through the windscreen or pry open the door with a crowbar, etc.

I'm under the impression that "lock on go" has a statistically beneficial effect overall. Like, I'd enable it, if I had it. But I don't think I need to retrofit it.

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Really? Is that an assumption or provable? Whether or not the lock is engaged has little to do with the way the latch works inside, it just prevents the operating rod doing anything.