Automatic Lock Concept

Are you aware that your Prius' doors will open any time you pull the levers, regardless of whether they're locked? I'm just not sure if auto-locking is that helpful to you, and especially not if you get in a disabling accident...

~ dan ~

 

Move to Australia. I never feel I need my doors locked when I'm driving.

 

Automatic Lock

There are instructions on Darell's site at http://www.evnut.com/prius_auto_lock.htm for installing a circuit that will lock the doors automatically at start up.

For the Classic Prius, Coastal sold a circuit that locked the doors when the driver's seatbelt was connected and unlocked them when the seatbelt was disconnected.

 

i ask the dealership where i got my car and they told me that they can do it.

 

i automatically lock the doors when i sit down in the car... but that's just habit i guess. no need to unlock before opening the door, as already mentioned.

 

I put the same coastal lock into my 07 and it locks the doors as soon as I push the power button! go figure.

 

@satwood - my saleswoman told me that its a matter of programming. No add-ons.

 

Some Toyota models do just what you want. My 05 Avalon works that way. Doors all lock when you put the car in drive and all un-lock when you put the car in park.

 

Can someone post the instructions for this?

 

I don't think that info is out there for the public... But if someone does have this info, that'd be great! Otherwise, I may just purchase the Coastal Mod...

 

My brand new 08 lists this as a customizable option in the manual. In fact, it shows the default state as being on for both shift to P unlocks all doors, and shift to anything other than P locks all doors. Despite these options being listed as on by default, neither of these functions are actually on. I'm hoping the dealer will be willing to set this for free for me, since I've only had the car for a week. (I guess we'll see.)

 

tell you dealer to do this, and it should be free. i just contacted my dealer and told me that they can do it for free. just for now i cant go because i bought my car in ACTON, MA. 2hrs drive from here in CT.

by the way, you have SKS feature? if not, they cannot do it.

 

My buddy's '08, package 2 does this automatically. When he put it into anything except park, all 4 doors lock. But they do not unlock when the car is put back into park, or turned off. He said he got it that way, he didn't have to request it from the dealer...

 

I went there today to pick up my license plates and asked if they could do it. They told me that I needed to have both of the keys as they needed to be reprogrammed as part of the process of adding the auto-lock feature when shifting in/out of park. Is this true? I couldn't get it done because I didn't have them both with me. I'm curious as to why both keys would be needed to change an option that seems to have nothing to do with them. (And I do have the SKS system, by the way.)

 

Huh. Whatever logic board is required for this auto-lock stuff, it probably says "Not for 2004 model."...

 

My understanding is that the vehicle is already capable of this without any additional hardware. (It's a 2008 model w/SKS.) It's listed in the manual as a customizable option.

 

but theory has it that, in a severe accident an unlocked door could pop open wherever you live

 

Is that an option on 2007 models as well? Or new to 2008?