If you live on the 4th+ floor, and in the moment of going to bed, you think: Did I lock the car? You grab your binoculars, point them down to your car (which ofcourse is parked so you can see the driver's door) and look for the red blink. No blink? Clothes on.
DRegarding the faulty sensors to tell if the door/s is closed or not, if it's the sensor problem, you would also have a message and a dashboard saying that one of the doors are open, while the engine is on. If you don't get this message i would assume the sensors are fine.
Does this mean the car is not properly secured if you only give one click on the key fob button?
As far as I am aware, click once is just locking the car. If you try to open it from inside with the door handle it will unlock.
Clicking twice is flashing the lights 3 times and is initiating deadlock. If you try to open with the handle inside it will not work.
Most of the times the thiefs are using simple tools just go through the gap between the window and the pannel and catch the cable of the handle and pull, this unlocks the car if deadlock is not armed.
Ford also have the same feature working the same way (we had Mondeo).
Try it yourself by locking both ways while you are in the car.
Personally, I always arm the deadlock.
Tried doing this on my 2006 1.4 5 door and 2 clicks made no difference. Still only one flash of the blinkers on the second click and no deadlocking of the internal handles. Am I doing something wrong?As far as I am aware, click once is just locking the car. If you try to open it from inside with the door handle it will unlock.
Clicking twice is flashing the lights 3 times and is initiating deadlock. If you try to open with the handle inside it will not work.
Most of the times the thiefs are using simple tools just go through the gap between the window and the pannel and catch the cable of the handle and pull, this unlocks the car if deadlock is not armed.
Ford also have the same feature working the same way (we had Mondeo).
Try it yourself by locking both ways while you are in the car.
Personally, I always arm the deadlock.
Whatever I do with the key fob I can't get the 3 flashes of the blinkers or the deadlocks to work. Do you think this feature was dropped from the last batch of UK Stilos? Mine has the grey shadow grille and was bought new in November 2006. It has the door lock feature on the driver's door armrest and the handbook talks about deadlocks, "where fitted".
