Go on have a good laugh at my own stupidity.

[DeaconD]

Go outside, cars a block of ice – open up the car chuck work bag containing everything phone, wallet and yes...coat , turn the car on – lean in and wack the fan on and turn on the rear screen..

Slam door, walk off to get ice scraper – get three steps and think “ ****!!” – I pressed the anti hijack button.

Cars locked – Cars Running.

No one in the house – phone locked in car – house locked ( spare key in house).

Had to go to a neighbour’s house and use their phone and get the old man to come round with a spare key.

Failgasm.

Dont be as stupid as me. Please.

 

[Adam.]

Pwnt.

 

[Sam@NP]

Darwins theory?

 

[AK]

Unlucky.

 

[DeaconD]

Darwins theory?

Clearly the case.

 

[daveski]

Could have been worse, least you had a spare key

 

[andyc58]

anti hijack button???

 

[Harpham]

This is like the time I locked my keys outside of the car.

 

[DeaconD]

anti hijack button???

Central locking " anti hijack" above 4mph button.

Its silly, it was only saturday someones car locked itself on surrey rolling road! - my fail was a bit more stupid however

 

[Revels]

Central locking " anti hijack" above 4mph button.

So who drove it above 4MPH? Your coat?

 

[DeaconD]

So who drove it above 4MPH? Your coat?

Sadly no, I hit the button while the door was open, then shut the door

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Didn't realise it locks itself after a period of time. Don't remember my 182 doing that.

 

[Tyler@Ultimate]

The button shouldn't work while the door is open?

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Yeh it does, definitely remember that.

(assuming you mean that toggle switch on the dash, near the hazard light)

 

[DeaconD]

Yeh it does, definitely remember that.

(assuming you mean that toggle switch on the dash, near the hazard light)

Yep, Thats the one.

I would have thought it would have bounced back to open ( like most cars ) - but no.

 

[Tyler@Ultimate]

Must not have that option on the 182's and later.

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Pretty sure it does.

I just dont remember it auto locking after you open the door, then close it.

I remember if you unlock the car, DON'T open a door, it re-locks itself after a while though.

 

[Sir_Dave]

I dont get why you would open the car, turn it on, press the lock button, then get out the car lol ...

Surely it autolocks when you drive off, to save pressing the button?

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

Congrats. Assume it was nice and warm when you got in (eventually!!).

Not worthy of a Darwin award. Wrong category TBH.

Not as good as my Dad, who moved his Mazda off the drive, parked it on the road engine running one Sunday morning. Got the Caterham out the garage, shut the garage, got in the Caterham and drove off. Mum pops outside about 2 hours later and notices the car is sitting there unlocked, engine running still, with all the keys for house, all cars and work on the keyring.

Almost as intelligent as the time he basically broke into a neighbours house to install some new locks for me. Few mins into the job as he's getting sorted with tools and such, he's looking at the washing machine he installed a few days before realising it looks a little different.

Genius.

Hope that makes you feel better, OP

 

[JezzaMac]

He didnt mean to lock the car! He pressed the lock button with the door still open instead of the rear window demister button by accident! Still quite a large amount of fail though good effort!

 

[Ian_s]

I dont get why you would open the car, turn it on, press the lock button, then get out the car lol ...

Surely it autolocks when you drive off, to save pressing the button?

I think he pressed the button by accident instead of the heated rear screen button (which is the same just on the other side of the centre console)

 

[ILikeShinyThings]

This locking feature has caused me endless annoyance when picking people up. Luckily I haven't managed to encounter any problems like this haha atleast you got a spare though!

 

[Gally]

Mentally retarded? Slightly?

 

[TheEvilGiraffe]

This locking feature has caused me endless annoyance when picking people up. Luckily I haven't managed to encounter any problems like this haha atleast you got a spare though!

You can turn it off, ya no?

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

Hold the lock button down to turn it off.

Does my tits in on cars, it's not like we live in South Africa!

And my other major gripe is unlocking a car using the key fob on most cars, it only unlocks the drivers door. IF I PRESS UNLOCK, I WANT TO UNLOCK THE WHOLE CAR!!!

 

[DeaconD]

Last week had an odd occurrence with my Clio, the thob wouldn’t work and wouldn’t lock the car.

Look across the car park – a chap with a Clio campus... trying to lock his car wouldn’t work.

Seems the thobs pressed together it won’t work. But a delay of around 30 seconds seems to now allow this chap to lock his car near mine!

Waited 30 seconds his thob then worked... waited a bit more then mine worked.

Frequencies must be so close.

 

[Sir_Dave]

I think he pressed the button by accident instead of the heated rear screen button (which is the same just on the other side of the centre console)

lol. Thinking about it, i can see how easily you could do that ...

Awaits daft post from me tomorrow morning

 

[SimonR.]

Unlucky! :L

And about the auto locking, my clio used to do that even when a door was open after a while.

 

[Revels]

And my other major gripe is unlocking a car using the key fob on most cars, it only unlocks the drivers door. IF I PRESS UNLOCK, I WANT TO UNLOCK THE WHOLE CAR!!!

My boss' car does that. Annoys the f**k out of me.

Unlock it. Get in. Get out. Try to open the boot. Boot still locked. Arghh

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

It's a trend in every German car I've driven, and a lot of others too. Just don't get it.

 

[Sash]

Last week had an odd occurrence with my Clio, the thob wouldn’t work and wouldn’t lock the car.

Look across the car park – a chap with a Clio campus... trying to lock his car wouldn’t work.

Seems the thobs pressed together it won’t work. But a delay of around 30 seconds seems to now allow this chap to lock his car near mine!

Waited 30 seconds his thob then worked... waited a bit more then mine worked.

Frequencies must be so close.

Thob? thug/yob?

Roffle.

 

[Gaz_]

I will always pop the window down so i can grab the internal handle, too many strange instances of CLio's locking whilst on idle!

 

[Scrooge]

My boss' car does that. Annoys the f**k out of me.

Unlock it. Get in. Get out. Try to open the boot. Boot still locked. Arghh

Mine does it too, I've resorted to mashing the unlock button so I know all the doors will be unlocked by the time I get there. Once I sort vagcom out that feature will be deleted.

 

[.Andy.]

Works van does this also, so fuxking annoying, I've got both hands full, key in my mouth, unlock the van ready to try and pull the back door open with my elbow and NO!! Still fcuking locked!!!!!

 

[Steven103]

Anti hijack button? This is the wide/short one with the padlock on it presumably (on hazard light panel IIRC?)

The amount of times my mates used to f*** about with that thinking it was funny to stop my other friends from getting in the car. Thank f*** the doors never got shut with me outside the car...

 

[Joe#]

I've done this, luckily there was still someone in

I just take my spare key out now when it's frozen solid.

 

[Kane.]

I wont even close my door in my 106 with the engine running as I get paranoid after all the threads on here.

 

[Dan519]

Last week had an odd occurrence with my Clio, the thob wouldn’t work and wouldn’t lock the car.

Look across the car park – a chap with a Clio campus... trying to lock his car wouldn’t work.

Seems the thobs pressed together it won’t work. But a delay of around 30 seconds seems to now allow this chap to lock his car near mine!

Waited 30 seconds his thob then worked... waited a bit more then mine worked.

Frequencies must be so close.

it's a FOB fatty. Now I have to see your sisters boobs

 

[Darren S]

Congrats. Assume it was nice and warm when you got in (eventually!!).

Not worthy of a Darwin award. Wrong category TBH.

Not as good as my Dad, who moved his Mazda off the drive, parked it on the road engine running one Sunday morning. Got the Caterham out the garage, shut the garage, got in the Caterham and drove off. Mum pops outside about 2 hours later and notices the car is sitting there unlocked, engine running still, with all the keys for house, all cars and work on the keyring.

Almost as intelligent as the time he basically broke into a neighbours house to install some new locks for me. Few mins into the job as he's getting sorted with tools and such, he's looking at the washing machine he installed a few days before realising it looks a little different.

Genius.

Hope that makes you feel better, OP

PMSL! Quality!

D.

 

[ILikeShinyThings]

You can turn it off, ya no?

Really? how?