Silly question: is there a way to lock the doors without a key?

[osunick]

Maybe I'm stupid, but after reading the manual I still can't figure out how to lock the doors without a key. If I press the 'lock' button on the door, it unlocks as soon as I close it. Surely there's a way to do this, if anyone can shed some light on this I'd greatly appreciate it.

-n.

[Gallep]

Thats so you can't lock your key in the car... Well, at least it's an attempt too...

[Howard Hughes]

Yeah it's so you don't lock your keys in your car.... I believe you can deactivate it... but I'm sure you would need a VAG to do so...

[buko]

i know in my old civic it was the same way, but i got around it by locking the door from the inside. Then as i closed the door i held on to the handle(from the outside) as if i was opening the door.

[DELUX]

There is no way to do it. Germans are smart when they design cars. They did this for a reason and that reason is so you don't lock yourself out of your car. My wife locks our Tacoma from the inside, despite having the keys on her, and I always yell at her not to do that and to close it with the remote because she'll lock us out someday.

Last month she locked us out of our car while we were away on vacation. Now she uses the remote.

[Chekm8]

all i know is that when i press the lock button on the key fob before the last door is closed, then the car is armed so after that last door is closed, then all doors lock. i haven't tried arming it and then throwing hte key inside the car to see if it knows the key is still in it.

i carry a spare plastic key so sometimes, i warm up the car by leaving the main key in and then locking the door with the plastic key. i'm usually around the area of the car when i do that cuz some1 might just break the window and take the car for a joy ride :)

[old guy]

all i know is that when i press the lock button on the key fob before the last door is closed, then the car is armed so after that last door is closed, then all doors lock. i haven't tried arming it and then throwing hte key inside the car to see if it knows the key is still in it.

i carry a spare plastic key so sometimes, i warm up the car by leaving the main key in and then locking the door with the plastic key. i'm usually around the area of the car when i do that cuz some1 might just break the window and take the car for a joy ride :)

I believe you will find that what you described will work for every door EXCEPT the driver's door. Once again, Audi is one step ahead!

[DELUX]

Right, but that involves using the key which defeats what the OP was trying to determine.

[osunick]

Right. So here's the situation. Wife leaves the car unlocked so I can finish unloading it. The car is parked far away on the street, so when I grab the last load, I can't lock the car because my wife has the keys in the house. I just think this 'feature' seems like it's being a bit too clever. Seriously, if I'm not smart enough to be trusted with manual control of the door locks, I really shouldn't be allowed to drive, period. Calling this a 'feature' is a pretty long stretch, IMO.

I'd accept the japanese compromise of forcing you to hold the handle open when closing the door, but no, the vaunted teutonic engineering has failed me in this one instance. In my 15 years of driving, I've never locked myself out of a car even once, so I think Audi should give me the benefit of the doubt and let me lock the car without a key. Bottom line- I can accept designing the locking feature to make it fool-resistant to prevent lockouts, but removing a feature entirely to protect stupid people does everyone else a disservice. There isn't even a hoop a smart person can jump through to lock the doors on the damn car. Isn't that weird?

[47Ronin]

wait so if i lock my door withthe remote and then throw my keys through the window

the doors will unlock?

[osunick]

No. The car doesn't have any kind of proximity based RFID capability, so it can't tell where the key is physically located in relation to the car.

[old guy]

wait so if i lock my door withthe remote and then throw my keys through the window

the doors will unlock?

No. (That really wasn't a serious question was it?)

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No. (That really wasn't a serious question was it?)

Well some people want to lock their doors with the windows open.

[skeeball]

Right. So here's the situation. Wife leaves the car unlocked so I can finish unloading it.

If you are unloading from the trunk, you can shut all doors (trunk open), hit lock on the remote. All the doors will lock and then when you are finished unloading, close the trunk and the car will beep and alarm will activate.

Does that help?

Or you could lock the doors from the inside and climb out through the trunk and never have to use your key.

[doublezero30]

wait so if i lock my door withthe remote and then throw my keys through the window

the doors will unlock?

no. but the alarm will go off.

[old guy]

no. but the alarm will go off.

Sorry, but that is incorrect. Nothing will happen.

[doublezero30]

Sorry, but that is incorrect. Nothing will happen.

you sure? i had a leaf set off my alarm the other day...ide assume something more dense like a set of keys would do the same.

[old guy]

You know what, now that you mention it I believe the '02 models incorporated a motion sensor with the car alarm. I do not believe the '03's and later have it. I just went out and tried it on my car and nothing happened. ('03)

[doublezero30]

yea i got a motion sensor. its kind of annoying, but sweet at the same time. so i guess to answer 47ronin's question you were right. nothing will happen for his car since its an '03.

[old guy]

I just did a little more checking and apparently a few of the early '03's also had the interior motion detector. If you have three buttons in the lower rear portion of the drivers door pocket, one is the motion sensor override. The other two are trunk release and tilt sensor override (for towing). I've only got two, the trunk release and tilt alarm.