SOT - Stupid car locks

there's your mistake

Try here, this lot are quite helpful.

Is there really no way to lock the doors from the inside?

Have you read the instructions? Maybe you have to "pair" the key and car again so the remote central locking works again?

Have you Googled to find out if there is a cure? Most CL systems are pretty reliable. If yours doesn't work because of lack of signal or local interference there might be a work round.

When you need a car "by tomorrow" and prefer to drive small cars, you have to take what's on offer.

Yes

but they *all* open again as soon as you open one of the doors to get out

tim

Yes (I had a spare hour waiting in the repair shop one afternoon)

There is next to nothing in there about "fixing" the central locking

It does work "again", it's just that the period of time between it not working and it working is random

Usually what happens is it refuses to work to open, so I use the key, and by the time I have got to my destination it has corrected itself so I can lock it.

The difficulty occurs when it decides not to work at the end of the journey to lock it. Usually, I then have no choice but to leave it unlocked overnight, and by the next morning it works.

But I'm about to go on holiday for 2 weeks and it will be left outside my house, so I prefer not to take the risk of it sitting unlocked for that time if it doesn't fix itself by tomorrow

tim

Can you not climb out through the boot?

Robert

If they know the answer

Google got me to "justanswer.com" but that want paying for the answer (if satisfied!)

tim

Hm,

It's always in the same place when it doesn't work

I suppose it could be someone else using a different remote interfering with it

tim

Right .......... it was a while ago ...

Ahhhhhhhh, now then! We also have a Micra. When we drive past a certain place the hatchback unlocks itself.

That's one of "the doors"

tim

Could be lots of things. A faulty switch mode power supply somewhere putting out lots of RF rubbish, etc. Car remotes are very low powered, so easily swamped.

Have you tried the remote in different places - ie walk round the car trying it? I dunno where the aerial is sited in yours.

It's more likely to be some local interference such as Police radio systems, bridge control (my bike remote refused to work near a Gent Terneuzen canal bridge) or something of that sort.

though I haven't tried the holding it to my head trick!

no neither do I

tim

Yep.

It's under the dashboard - aye. Did you read my post about the hatchback in my Micra unlocking when driving in a certain place?