Hey All, I am trying to stop my auto door locks from engaging after I place truck in drive. Very annoying to me... I have done it by the book many attempts, but no luck. Any one have a tip to get the door locks to stop auto locking? Thanks,

 

You do know there is a very good reason why Ford (and most every auto manufacturer) has that feature enabled......right?

 

And what exactly would that reason be? And why would they provide the method to disable such a feature IN THE OWNER's MANUAL????

Follow the instructions in the manual and there's no reason it shouldn't work.

I'm not going to manuall type in the whole procedure here, but it begins on page #92 of your owner's manual. If neither of the two methods shown in the manual work, it's time for a trip to the dealership. They can manually enable/disable the feature via the GEM, but there's no reason it shouldn't work if you follow the procedures outlined in the manual.

-Joe

 

carjacking at a stop.

 

Understandable, but again, it's a feature that they provide the ability to deactivate. In fact, it's the FIRST thing I've done to every new vehicle I've owned since 97... I live in Newport, MI.... who's gonna car-jack me?? The cows?

{cow saunters up along side me at a stop light}
'Don't moooooove, buddy'

I'll decide when the doors should be locked, thank you very much.

 

Not bashing, here. Just wondering.


It has to do with crash safety.

Do you turn your airbags off, and not wear a seat-belt, also?

Needless to say, you are in a very small minority.

 

Thanks GIJOECAM, I have tried it many times. I will try again. When going into the back after the shutting her down. The back doors are locked, you then need to unlock the rear doors to get in. As a matter of fact "if" I did not have the combo lock on the outside of the drivers door. I would be very concerned about locking keys or my 2 year old son in the back seat. But in reality I am more concerned that I can't get the auotlocks to disarm...

 

I'm not a minority, I'm a control freak. HUGE difference....

Crash safety??? I don't think so.... It's a convenience. It's got nothing to do with safety. If it was a safety issue, why would ford allow you to deactivate it? If you think you're safer in a crash because your doors are locked, you're sadly mistaken. Does that make the XL with manual locks less safe than the Lariat with auto-locks engaged? Power locks are a convenience. Automatically-locking power locks are also a convenience.

I do turn my passenger airbag off when nobody is riding there. I figure it's one less thing the insurance company will have to replace in the event I rear-end someone. Also, if you know anything from my posts here, you'll know that I'm one of the first one to pipe up against defeating any safety feature: ABS, air bags, speed limiters, etc. The door locks are not a safety feature.

 

Oh, and I'm with you on that one... I hate when you are, for instance, washing the vehicle. Hop in real quick, pull it into the shade to dry it, walk around to the passenger side, and --dangit!!-- the door's locked, so it's baaaack around to the other side to unlock them, then baaaack around again to get in like you started to before.... just a pain in the butt!

It's even worse when there's a child in the rear passenger seat that needs to pee!!

-Joe

 

Ok, whatever you want to think is fine with me....... I did the research.

 

OK, I'll bite.... care to elaborate on that one? I'll ask the question: How does having the doors locked make you safer in an accident?



-Joe

 

Can you post that info ?

How does this work when you have a XL, with manual locks on it ? Is this to say XLs are less safe then the XLT and up trim levels ?

 

The doors being locked decrease the likelihood of the door popping open in a medium to light impact. Studies showed it, it is in many DMV reports; many safety classes go into great detail.
On the trucks with 'suicide' doors it makes even more difference.
As to high jacking, yup it does happen, even in remote places. Seems escaped prisoners and hitchhiking weirdoes usually forget that some rural areas are deemed 'no crime' places. Rude of them I suppose.

Also tends to help keep kids from pulling the door handle and tumbling out while you move. Not on these trucks as the front doors unlock themselves with the handle, unlike my other cars/trucks which would not open till you unlocked the doors.

Still, you should be allowed to decide for yourself if you want to disable safety features. There is something wrong when the method in the manual does not work. Aftermarket/dealer added alarm maybe?
Chris

 

Accident statistics have proven time and time again that having your doors locked in an accident decreases the chance they will fly open allowing occupants to be thrown from a crash - one of the LEADING causes of fatalities in vehicle crashes....this has been known for years and I always drive with my doors locked.

However, I do belive that Ford's system is just a convenience feature and was incorporated by Ford (to keep up with the GM who has been doing this for many years in their vehicles). I like mine for the most part - except when I'm warming up the truck and want to lock it and use the keypad to get back in....that darn driver's door unlocks every time!

 

No, they are not less safe.

You have to lock the doors manually, is all.

Oh, the horror.....having to push the buttons down.