LIE2ME

I turn off the engine of my 2012 coupe, get out, close the door, and push the lock button. The lights flash and the lock icon come on to tell me the car is indeed locked. I walk away for ten minutes, come back and notice the green light around my start button is still lit as is the courtesy lights under the rear view mirror. This doesn't seem right, so I push the lock button again and the horn beeps as if to say, "the car is already locked, stupid"! Yet the start button and mirror lights are still lit.

I thought pushing the lock button shuts everything down? What's going on here?

MLCRookie

Is the fob still in your pocket? I was curious about this too, and this morning I locked my car as I walked away, walked back and opened the door...so, I then locked it, walked awy, and sat my fob down with my work cooler and walked back to the car...this time everything was locked/secured as it should be. as you walk up, the car detects the fob and is more than kind enough to welcome you with open arms...

dklowrider

And people say it's just a car.

Bob Yocum

You might have accidently bumped the light control **** on the dash with your knee or hand when getting out of the car.

C6z06man

Haha smarter than the operator some times.

LIE2ME

I may have figured it out...

When I first locked the doors and walked off, I laid my FOB in the house and then went back out to the car. I tried to open the doors and of course w/o the FOB, they would not open. I retrieved the FOB and it was when I returned to the car, I noticed the aforementioned lights were all on. I believe what happened was that when I tried to open the locked door w/o the FOB, the interior lights came on and stayed on. I experimented with this and lo and behold, discovered if one tries to open a locked door w/o the FOB, the lights come on and stay on for about ten minutes. Mystery Solved!

Thanks all for the suggestions..

1hawk

I had the same problem at least 2/3 times in the year I had my 2012 GS. Get out of the car & walk several feet away the HORN gives me 2 beeps. Ignition & Acc light where off. Still can not figure what went wrong?
Car way to smart.

Save the wave

MLCRookie

I have only had her for two days and she already treats me like an old friend...I think it was meant to be...but I finally get the jewelry commercial where the GPS talks about the jewelry...

Knob Jockey

The car isn't that smart.

It doesn't look for the fob until you 'ask' it to, by using the door switch, trunk switch, start button, etc.

LIE2ME

That is actually a good approach. I owned a Jaguar that was always "seeking" the remote and if the remote was left within 20-30 feet of the car, the PCM would endlessly "talk" to the remote (activating all sorts of electronic stuff in the car) eventually running down the car battery.

Stupid design in my opinion...

Larry/car

I have my car programmed to lock automatically when I walk away, silently. It unlocks when I'm in range, again silently. You never know it happened. I discovered it is still working when I was cleaning the inside windows, left my FOB on the garage floor and closed the door. Yep, locked inside, the car was shut down tight. I had to use the emergency door release to get out. Then all ____broke out, horn sounded, lights flashed, it is working!!

dcarter0001

That's true and nothing happens when you walk up to the car with or without the fob until you push the door switch. Trying to open a door without the fob will only cause the red security light to flash.

Don-Vette

Thanks for solving this! happened to me once.

C6z06man

At least you figured it out. Stupid stuff like that can drive you crazy.

1SG

BRISLS1

I just bought a 2007 Z06 from Carmax today, and this same confusion shortly after. So weird not to be using a key and fob the old way.

cclive

You can also just leave the fob in your pocket and hit the lock button on the door as you get out. This gives you the versatility of not setting the car to autolock and also not having to dig around in a pocket to find the fob. The great thing about the fob system is that it really doesn't even need to have buttons on it and can just sit silently in a pocket and never be disturbed.

Boomer111

I just have the car lock when the fob is away as well as unlock when the fob is near.

No button pushing for me or horn honking with lights flashing....so lame

ittlfly

Not me. I can't find my a$$ with both hands sometimes. When I walk away from the car with the fob in my pocket, the horn honks and lights flash. Like saying ''Hey stupid, I'm locked, you got it right''.

cclive

I would do this also but I like locking it myself because I only need it locked once in a while.