Thread: Can you get locked inside a Disco 3

Originally Posted by Melbourne Park

Why lock the car anyway you're going to sleep in the vehicle?

And if you want to leave the car quickly for any emergency, it would be best not to unlock the vehicle IMO. Finding keys in a stressful situation when sleeping overnight, might not be easy.

I once locked my son - who was maybe 9 to 11 years old - in an E46 3 series sedan BMW. A car which an Asian lady left her son in, on a hot day, and went to the Casino. The young child died. Anyway I parked the car outside my house (it was my wife's car) - I had picked my son up from his school. I got out, I thought he did too, I walked up the driveway, and before the front door, locked the car. The rear door to the house was unlocked. Ove an hour later I heard a noise outside, and went out into the street - and a passer bye pointed to the BMW and the chap said " the child seems upset" ....

Fortunately it was not a hot day ...

I investigated and discovered that if the car is locked its impossible to get out of the car.

I contacted BMW, two times, but got no response.

Perhaps another reason why I am reticent to lock a car if a person is in it. OK I know they lock often when one departs, but they'll unlock when you stop the car. Locking a car when you jump in it may be necessary for security, I understand that. But if the someone is in a car with the vehicle turned off, it should be unlocked IMO.

We need to be clear on the term “locked”.
Locked with an internal button or lever is not disabling. A simple movement of the lever opens the door.

Locking using a single press of the remote button is not something you should do if inside as the alarm is armed. Again though, the lever still works. It’s not deadlocked.

Locking using a double press of the remote button is deadlocked and you cannot use the levers or switches to exit the vehicle. You must break out. This is what you do when you lock and leave the vehicle.

In summary there is no reason NOT to manually lock the vehicle when in it, just don’t use the remote to lock it so as to avoid the alarm and deadlock functions.

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

We need to be clear on the term “locked”.
Locked with an internal button or lever is not disabling. A simple movement of the lever opens the door.

Locking using a single press of the remote button is not something you should do if inside as the alarm is armed. Again though, the lever still works. It’s not deadlocked.

Locking using a double press of the remote button is deadlocked and you cannot use the levers or switches to exit the vehicle. You must break out. This is what you do when you lock and leave the vehicle.

In summary there is no reason NOT to manually lock the vehicle when in it, just don’t use the remote to lock it so as to avoid the alarm and deadlock functions.

Thanks for the clarification.

I know with a Lexus, its not possible to lock the car from the outside of the vehicle, if there is a remote lock device inside the vehicle.

I think it's an error if Land Rover have allowed the vehicle to be deadlocked via double locking the remote - while inside the vehicle. But I don't know if Land Rover have allowed that to happen? I should try it it in mine I guess. I just need to be sure that I don't drop the key down between the front seats and the centre arm rest area, things can get stuck down there ...

Which reminds me that we should all carry a window braking tool in our vehicles. Locate it under the drivers seat or in the driver's door pocket, or on the transmission tunnel area. A nephew of mine died when his vehicle with three others in the vehicle, left the road. They had drunk a fare bit. The road was almost at water level, with bluestone running next to the bitumen. At night, the rocks merge into the water. Even in the day the rocks look like the water if its cloudy on that bit of road (which I had been on before and I remembered the road and the curb where my nephew died.

They were SAS soldiers, just having finished a behind the lines training course. Soldiers behind them dived into the 10 feet deep water, one with a rock, but no one could break the pressurised windows. A soldier left the water, ran back to their roadside car, grabbed it's jack, dived in and broke the rear window, but the four guys were gone by then - it doesn't take long to drown. My nephew was a water specialist too, awarded by the Governor General, etc etc etc. It's law in some places like Holland to have such window picks in each vehicle.

Doug