Auto locking

[Ken3966]

Can the car lock with keys inside?
Odd occurrence yesterday. I unlocked car and opened boot with key fob to load shopping into boot. Whilst doing this my son opened door and sat in front passenger seat. I closed the boot with the boot lid button and went to get in to drivers seat. As boot shut the car locked with my son inside. Fortunately I had key in pocket.
Would that have happened with key in boot by mistake?
Would my son have been able to unlock car from inside and get out?
Kessy was disabled as well hence pulling on drivers door handle did not open it even with key in pocket.

[HarryHuk]

Could your son have touched the lock button inside? (how old is he?)

I think there is a mode where the car is deadlocked - ie cannot be opened from inside as well as from outside.
It might even be the default locking mode with the key fob. But as the car locked without the fob, it might not have been deadlocked

[RichR]

In theory it's meant to detect if the keyfob is inside the car and not lock - but in practice it depends where it is as to whether it is. The door handle unlock does get confused sometimes if you lock and unlock in quick succession, but the buttons on the fob should be more reliable (assuming it's outside the car).

I too suspect he may have pressed the lock button (next to the hazard warning light button) which would have deadlocked the doors - pressing it again obviously would unlock them. The doors lock once the car has reached about 10mph too, but this clearly didn't happen here

[Goaty]

13 years ago when my son was a toddler, I’d very foolishly given him the keys to distract him while I loaded the boot (Audi A4). As soon as I closed the boot, of course he pressed Lock on the keyfob, locking himself in / me out of the car and then he proceeded to drop the keys out of his reach (he was already strapped in). Warm day of course and the windows were shut. Luckily I did have my mobile on me and frantically tried to get hold of my builder to ask him to drive over with a spare set. He didn’t answer at first and I was very close to smashing a window open. All fine in the end when the builder called me back and I was able to tell him where the keys were. Probably around a 20 minute ordeal in the end, but absolutely a lesson learned. I never let him play with the keys, after that experience.

[RichR]

One of my Renault 5 GT Turbos had no external door key locks (after an attempted theft left them trashed, the previous owner removed them and welded plates over then skimmed and resprayed the doors for a clean look), so relied on the remote central locking (infrared back in 1989!). However, if the car battery was flat, they wouldn't open. So I had a technique of either opening the boot (which still had a key lock) and climbing through, or gently pulling one of the rear windows out (hinged, popout style) and feeding a coat hanger past the rubber seal to hook a front door handle

Obviously a modern car like the Enyaq doesn't have such easy ways to gain access, which is why it's always worth knowing where both your keyfobs are. Even if the 12V battery fails, you can still use the manual key to unlock a door using the hidden keylock in the handle.

[Pict]

Yes!

Occasionally when we are out and Mrs Pict wants to leave her bag behind I will hide it in the boot. The bag always has her key inside and I have never had a problem with locking the car using my key. Presumably the alarm is armed as well.

Whether because I am making a deliberate act to lock the car as opposed to it being accidental makes a difference I do not know

[Ken3966]

Could your son have touched the lock button inside? (how old is he?)

My son is 36!! And didn’t touch the locking button.

[Blaineyboy]

I once left my keys in the centre console and went in the house. Two minutes later I realised where I left the keys and ran back and fortunately it hadn’t locked itself.