Windows opened overnight

[DonDon]

I parked and locked my car as usual yesterday. When I came down this morning, the windows were all fully open and the door mirrors were unfolded, but the car was still locked. I keep the key in a metal case so I don't think someone was trying to clone it. No diagnostic error codes showing on ProTool.

Has anyone seen this before please?

It would have to be the morning I had it booked in for its MOT! I'm glad to say it sailed through. Nice and clean underneath and tyres wearing evenly. Good emissions figures (which I had to ask for - they don't normally provide them any more).

 

[matsmith749]

I've seen something slightly similar once or twice (in a 20 year ownership period) - coming out in the morning with the windows dropped an inch as if they were prepped for opening the doors.

It was so infrequent that I just logged it as 'weird' & moved on. Never found a cause.

My thinking was that I somehow fiddled with the key / someone else did overnight.

I would say to monitor it - if it does it again you need to investigate, but for a one off I would just mark it down as 'weird' & move on.

 

[pvr]

The car auto locks when you haven't opened a door, so if you had for whatever reason pushed the key in your pocked, it would have opened the doors, and the windows if long enough pressed.

The doors would lock themselves again as they were not opened.

 

[ori]

This happened to me a few times until I twigged what happened.
I’d lie down on sofa and the key in my pocket would unlock the car and open the windows. Then the auto lock would kick in.

 

[Pondrew]

E89s without comfort access don't auto lock. I had an E89 in my garage for months unlocked (to save the battery). It never locked itself.

They also don't auto apply the handbrake after a period either.

 

[pvr]

Are you sure about that? I don’t know any modernish car that doesn’t auto lock as that is an insurance requirement for most.

I am talking about that you lock the car, unlock it but not open the door. All my cars since the 80s have done that.

 

[Pondrew]

Are you sure about that? I don’t know any modernish car that doesn’t auto lock as that is an insurance requirement for most.

I am talking about that you lock the car, unlock it but not open the door. All my cars since the 80s have done that.

Not sure now. I never took any notice of the sequence TBH but I know it stayed unlocked indefinitely in my garage. I'm gonna have to check now....oh can't the car isn't here! :lol:

 

[pvr]

I bet you a northern beer on that. Nothing to do with leaving a car unlocked as that will stay like that forever, but specifically locking the car, unlocking the car but not touching the doors.

I have to do that every time when I wash a car, I have to unlock it and open a door, otherwise 30 seconds later it is locked again when I want to open the car to hover the inside

 

[DonDon]

The car auto locks when you haven't opened a door, so if you had for whatever reason pushed the key in your pocked, it would have opened the doors, and the windows if long enough pressed.

The doors would lock themselves again as they were not opened.

Unlikely that I pressed any buttons (but can't rule it out, of course). I got home, locked the car and used the same set of keys to open the front door and immediately put the keys in their pouch where they stayed until the next morning. ??????????????????

 

[obewan]

I bet you a northern beer on that. Nothing to do with leaving a car unlocked as that will stay like that forever, but specifically locking the car, unlocking the car but not touching the doors.

I have to do that every time when I wash a car, I have to unlock it and open a door, otherwise 30 seconds later it is locked again when I want to open the car to hover the inside

Lucky for you Northern beer is cheap :wink:
I've no comfort access on my car and I can concur, no auto lock.

 

[enuff_zed]

E89s without comfort access don't auto lock.

Yes they do if you unlock it and don't open a door or the boot in the next two minutes.

 

[pvr]

I bet you a northern beer on that. Nothing to do with leaving a car unlocked as that will stay like that forever, but specifically locking the car, unlocking the car but not touching the doors.

I have to do that every time when I wash a car, I have to unlock it and open a door, otherwise 30 seconds later it is locked again when I want to open the car to hover the inside

Lucky for you Northern beer is cheap :wink:
I've no comfort access on my car and I can concur, no auto lock.

100% sure you do. Remember you have to lock it first, then unlock but do not open a door. It will lock again

 

[obewan]

E89s without comfort access don't auto lock.

Yes they do if you unlock it and don't open a door or the boot in the next two minutes.

Mine doesn't, and I've just checked to make absolutely sure. Pretty sure my E85 didn't either

 

[enuff_zed]

E89s without comfort access don't auto lock.

Yes they do if you unlock it and don't open a door or the boot in the next two minutes.

Mine doesn't, and I've just checked to make absolutely sure. Pretty sure my E85 didn't either

Mine does, but I just coded an E85 to do it a couple of days back, so probably find it's the same coding option on an E89.

 

[obewan]

Yes they do if you unlock it and don't open a door or the boot in the next two minutes.

Mine doesn't, and I've just checked to make absolutely sure. Pretty sure my E85 didn't either

Mine does, but I just coded an E85 to do it a couple of days back, so probably find it's the same coding option on an E89.

I must admit I was surprised it didn't auto lock and wondered if it had been coded out prior top my ownership - a long time ago, I bought it in 2016 - and why would you?
Sorry OP, didn't mean to hijack your thread

 

[Pondrew]

Right then, listen up, I've worked it out (by checking physically).

If you have i-Drive you can select to auto-lock or not in the settings menu. Ours was set to not auto-lock so it didn't. I then ticked the box and it does now.
If you don't have i-Drive it doesn't auto-lock and you obviously can't change it.

Disclaimer: I don't have a non i-Drive car in front of me so can't guarantee the second bit, but just remember our old one never locking itself so am quite confident I am correct.

So I was right AND wrong all at the same time! Which, in my eyes, means Paul (PVR) owes me a Northern beer (or several).

 

[enuff_zed]

Right then, listen up, I've worked it out (by checking physically).

If you have i-Drive you can select to auto-lock or not in the settings menu. Ours was set to not auto-lock so it didn't. I then ticked the box and it does now.
If you don't have i-Drive it doesn't auto-lock and you obviously can't change it.

Disclaimer: I don't have a non i-Drive car in front of me so can't guarantee the second bit, but just remember our old one never locking itself so am quite confident I am correct.

So I was right AND wrong all at the same time! Which, in my eyes, means Paul (PVR) owes me a Northern beer (or several).

But mine doesn’t have I-distraction and it auto locks. Must be able to be coded too?

 

[Pondrew]

But mine doesn’t have I-distraction and it auto locks. Must be able to be coded too?

I don't bloody know! :roll: Coding is for computer geeks not the likes of me.

 

[Mr Tidy]

But mine doesn’t have I-distraction and it auto locks. Must be able to be coded too?

I'd be surprised if it couldn't be coded.

My 2nd E86 had that annoying auto-lock at 10mph feature - I soon got that coded off!

 

[pvr]

That is the drive away auto lock, something different to the automatic re-locking of the door when you haven’t physically opened it