Secret Power Lock Feature For The 2?

[MANICompression]

Figured I'd post this here to get the most visibility. So today I inadvertently activated some sort of secret locking feature where the 'unlock' side of the power door lock switch inside the car will only unlock the doors once the driver has manually unlocked his door using the lock near the door handle. At first I thought the 'unlock' portion of the switch was toast since the 'lock' portion worked fine. Have no idea how I did this but I think it must have been some series of locking and unlocking the car while the key was in the 'on' or 'acc' position.

I know that my 3 has programable functions, but I didn't think the 2 did, nor can I find anywhere where this type of function is written down. Has anyone seen this before? If this is a feature on another Mazda model maybe the programing steps are the same for the 2. Makes me wonder what other secret features are programed into the car that us U.S. owners don't know about considering it is a global model. I just need to figure out how to turn this off.

 

[XCLR8TN]

That's weird. Maybe look in the manual for the 3 and try what it says to do, on the 2? And then let us know if it worked or not haha

 

[genericmoniker]

I found that the other day. Oddly enough, when I went back to it the next morning, everything worked as it "should".

 

[drop360]

I think there might be something wrong with the driver's side door lock on the 2. 3 times I have found my driver's door to be locked, with the keys inside my car. All the other doors were still unlocked, as was the trunk. At first I thought I must have accidentally locked the door manually. But I am certain I did not do that all 3 times. It's very strange.

 

[MANICompression]

So this has happened to someone else too. And I had the same outcome. Today, got in the car and everything is back to normal! It's like some sort of temporary secret or something, but most likely some sort of glitch that goes away with a few drive cycles. Strange for sure. The '11 3 has auto locking when the car reaches a certain speed or is shifted into gear and stuff like that, but those programable options are laid out in the 3's manual. The 2's manual speaks of nothing like this, and quite frankly, after accidentally activating this temporary function/glitch I'm not sure I want to mess with the locking stuff much more in case I do something and can't undo it without disconnecting the battery. Weird. I'll follow up if I ever get this function/glitch back.

 

[fam]

Could it be a door may have been not fully shut where it wouldnt let you lock it (shoots back to unlock to keep you from locking your keys in the car?)

 

[MANICompression]

No, all the doors (+hatch) were closed. And the lock half of the switch worked fine, I could hear it re-locking when I would hit it, but the unlock half of the switch was dead as a door nail. Only time the unlock would work is once I manually moved the lock button on the drivers door next to the door handle to unlock, only then would the unlock power button work and unlock the rest of the doors. Strangest thing, but seems that at least one other user has had the same thing happen, and with the same result; next day locking/unlocking returned to normal.

 

[fam]

Hmmm....I know when airwolf got possessed by the creators ghost they flew it up to freezing temps in the atmosphere and let it fall....perhaps we should do the same

 

[genericmoniker]

I had at first thought the switch was burnt out (ALREADY?!?!). But after flicking lock/unlock 5 or so times, I unlocked my door and it unlocked and then locked as normal. Although, as described, did not unlock until I manually unlocked mine.

I've tried replicating it, but I think I'll just chalk it up as being cold. (Although my car was completely warmed up, and I was waiting for my gf to walk up to the car when this happened, just completed a 40 km drive.)

 

[Mr.Lahey]

I'm 90 percent sure this is a safety issue with the car so you don't burn out the lock switch. A lot of cars have this via power windows/ power mirrors/ etc. When you open/close, unlock,lock a certain item too much it will lock out so you don't damage the car part. The fact that it would still unlock is probably because they can't have people getting locked in their cars in case of emergency.

 

[noahwilde]

I had a remote starter added to my car, which Is suppose to control the locks as well. It seems like it was not properly programmed. They needed both switch blade key pads when programming this starter. Sometimes it unlock's and sometimes I get to the car and nothing happens. I end up having to use the original remote to unlock the door which only then unlocks the drivers door. Very Odd. It goes back to the Independent garage it was installed at Monday.. At the begging with the original remote at times the trunk wouldn't unlock, but all 4 door did. Press the button a few times from lock to unlock then the trunk at times would open.

 

[MANICompression]

Well the thing was that the 'lock' function worked, it was the 'unlock' function that did not, so that rules out the power-lock-over-heating-safe-mode theory. I think it's just a fluke as the next day upon first use it worked perfectly. Funny, I was also waiting for my fiance and her friend to walk up to the car when the 'unlock' function wouldn't work. Hasn't done it since that day.

Also, most aftermarket remote starters rarely play well with OEM electronics, from my past experience. I've never used a car that had an aftermarket remote starter put in that didn't cause some other OEM electrical glitches, so I avoid those things like the plague. The electrical system is one area of a car that when you start going down that path by tacking onto the system you're more likely to start running into strange electrical gremlins. And trying to track down and fix those gremlins is near impossible.