[s-cars] Rear door locks (Was - Auto Check System & door/lightschime)

[Robert Rossato]

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.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Mtgadbois at aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 3:11 PM
> To: r0ssat0_987 at att.net; t44tqtro at gmail.com
> Cc: S-car List
> 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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