[s-cars] Rear door locks (Was - Auto Check System & door/lightschime)
Robert Rossato
bob.rossato_af at cox.net
Sat Nov 18 15:28:03 EST 2006
Well, at least that confirms that mine isn't a fluke (and BTW, the child
locks are not engaged). But it sure doesn't sound like a good design.
If there was an accident where the front occupants are incapacitated,
the rear occupants are screwed.
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> Subject: [s-cars] Rear door locks (Was - Auto Check System &
> door/lightschime)
>
>
> Fellows:
>
> My 95.5 operates the same way. When all the doors are locked
> via the key
> switch or the inside switch on the driver's door, the only
> way to open the rear
> doors is to unlock all the doors via the key switch or
> driver's door switch.
> Sounds fine to me - more power to the driver.
>
> Mark near Chicago
>
>
>
> Bob wrote:
> There is definitely something screwy with my back door
> locks. If you lock
> the doors, there is no way to exit the vehicle from the back
> seat. You can
> not pull up on the door pins at all. And trying to open it
> from the inside
> door pulls does nothing, no matter how many times you pull
> on them. Only after
> you unlock all the doors, either with the switch on the
> driver's door, or
> with the remote, can you open the rear doors from the inside
> (or at all for that
> matter).
>
> I first noticed this the other day when my battery was dead.
> I doubt the
> pump would have still been trying to pull down the lock pins
> as there wasn't
> even any power to run the clock or the theft code LED on the radio.
>
> Can anyone confirm that with the doors locked, you can exit
> the car from the
> back seat by either pulling up on the door pins or pulling
> on the door
> handle?
>
>
> ---- Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Bob-
> > No it does not make sense that you cannot open the rear
> door locks unless
> > you somehow actuated the child
> > locks prior to closing the doors.
> >
> > Taka
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