How to get all doors to unlock?

[Kdawg1966]

Hi all,

Could someone tell me how to make all my doors unlock when I shut off the car? Presently it only unlocks my drivers door. I have scrolled through everything and can't seem to find the answer. Thanks.

[LocksmithNick]

Yea, it’s aggravating. I don’t think guy can. I just turned the lock while driving feature off because I got tired of passengers yanking the shit out of the handle.

[Kzang]

In iDrive go to vehicle settings > doors/keys > select all doors.

[menelaos]

It's annoying when you stop the car and the other doors, non driver that is, don't unlock automatically. That needs coding I think.

[LocksmithNick]

Originally Posted by Kzang

In iDrive go to vehicle settings > doors/keys > select all doors.

Yea that locks them, but it doesn’t unlock them when you come to a stop and put it in park.

[deutsch100]

I have mine set to unlock ALL doors when I turn the ignition off! iDrive, settings, doors.

[Kzang]

Originally Posted by LocksmithNick

Yea that locks them, but it doesn’t unlock them when you come to a stop and put it in park.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the op but when I unlock the car whether I use my key fob or comfort access by touching the door handle all the doors unlock.

As far as having the all the doors unlock while driving and coming to a stop/park I'm not so sure that's a good idea. I'd rather have control of my doors rather than have all doors unlock automatically.

[Kdawg1966]

Originally Posted by Kzang

In iDrive go to vehicle settings > doors/keys > select all doors.

I have done this. When I unlock the car with my key fob, all the doors unlock, however when I park in my garage and shut the car off, only the drivers door unlocks.

[turboawd]

Originally Posted by Kdawg1966

Hi all,

Could someone tell me how to make all my doors unlock when I shut off the car? Presently it only unlocks my drivers door. I have scrolled through everything and can't seem to find the answer. Thanks.

actually your driver door unlocks when you pull the handle to get out.
i'm guessing you dont have comfort access?

[Kzang]

Originally Posted by Kdawg1966

I have done this. When I unlock the car with my key fob, all the doors unlock, however when I park in my garage and shut the car off, only the drivers door unlocks.

You are not being clear with your question.

Why are you shutting off the car and unlocking the door?

Anyhow I just tried to recreate what you are describing just now. I went into my garage and unlocked all doors by grabbing my door handles. I started the car and drive around the block came back and parked, shut off the car, locked the car and then few seconds later unlocked all doors again.

[LocksmithNick]

I understand what OP is saying.

Let's say settings are set to "lock after starting to drive". Ok....so now we're in D and all the doors are locked.

OP gets to the store and parks. Once in P, it only unlocks the drivers door. The passengers in the back pull the handle and expect to get out. They can't. They have to pull the handle again. Picking someone up? You have to hit the unlock button so they can get in from the outside. It's super annoying. The F25 I had before wasn't like this.

So now, I have the feature of "lock after starting to drive" turned OFF...because I got tired of passengers tugging on the handle.

I'll give you another example where this sucks. My 10 month old is in the back seat. Say I'm dropping him off to my parents. I park, leave it running, go around to his door to get him out, and his door is locked. I have to walk back to the drivers door and hit the unlock button.

[Kzang]

Maybe mine is coded but on my f15 when I park the passengers in the back seat can pull the handle once to open the door and not the usual pull twice to open on my previous BMW's.

[LocksmithNick]

Originally Posted by Kzang

Maybe mine is coded but on my f15 when I park the passengers in the back seat can pull the handle once to open the door and not the usual pull twice to open on my previous BMW's.

Put the car in park. Leave it running. Get out. And go try to open another door. It won't let you. The other 3 doors are locked. That's OP's complaint.

[Kzang]

Originally Posted by LocksmithNick

Put the car in park. Leave it running. Get out. And go try to open another door. It won't let you. The other 3 doors are locked. That's OP's complaint.

Now I get it. I think that is a security feature. Imagine you go to a parking lot park the car and someone tries to enter your vehicle in the passenger or back seats.

[CatalinP]

If the car has comfort access and you have the key in your pocket, you’ll be able to open any door.

[LocksmithNick]

True...but women normally leave their keys in the purse. I just turned the locking feature off.

[Kdawg1966]

Originally Posted by LocksmithNick

Put the car in park. Leave it running. Get out. And go try to open another door. It won't let you. The other 3 doors are locked. That's OP's complaint.

Bingo!

Originally Posted by LocksmithNick

So now, I have the feature of "lock after starting to drive" turned OFF...because I got tired of passengers tugging on the handle.

Thank you very much. I'll go do that now. All responses appreciated, thanks to all for the help.

This does seem like a bit of a practical blunder on BMW's part. All my other vehicles have never had this issue. Oh well, life is tough and I'll just have to roll with the punches ;-)

[LocksmithNick]

Originally Posted by Kdawg1966

Bingo!



Thank you very much. I'll go do that now. All responses appreciated, thanks to all for the help.

This does seem like a bit of a practical blunder on BMW's part. All my other vehicles have never had this issue. Oh well, life is tough and I'll just have to roll with the punches ;-)

Yea and it’s interesting because my X3 unlocked all of the doors when you put it in park. So I don’t know why they changed that.

[anki]

With coding I have set the doors to unlock at ignition off only if they were locked by car and not by the driver.

This is done by coding either of the following values in BDC BODY

VAM_UNLOCK_KL15OFF_AFTER_PIA_AUTO_LOCK
CLI_DEFAULT_UNLOCK_AFTER_END_OF_DRIVING

[Kdawg1966]

Originally Posted by anki

With coding I have set the doors to unlock at ignition off only if they were locked by car and not by the driver.

This is done by coding either of the following values in BDC BODY

VAM_UNLOCK_KL15OFF_AFTER_PIA_AUTO_LOCK
CLI_DEFAULT_UNLOCK_AFTER_END_OF_DRIVING

I appreciate the input but I have no idea how to do that stuff (I'm too old - or maybe just too lazy), and from what I've read, I'd need to get some sort of software to accomplish this... I've got enough going on now that doesn't always get done, so I probably will just unclick the "lock when starting to drive" feature and be done with it. I don't have little kids riding with me so I don't feel I need it anyway. Thanks.

[anki]

Originally Posted by Kdawg1966

I appreciate the input but I have no idea how to do that stuff (I'm too old - or maybe just too lazy), and from what I've read, I'd need to get some sort of software to accomplish this... I've got enough going on now that doesn't always get done, so I probably will just unclick the "lock when starting to drive" feature and be done with it. I don't have little kids riding with me so I don't feel I need it anyway. Thanks.

With kids I would use child lock. I also do not think its possible to disable the auto lock doors while driving.

Yes for coding you need adapter and app at the least.

[LocksmithNick]

Originally Posted by anki

I also do not think its possible to disable the auto lock doors while driving.

Yes for coding you need adapter and app at the least.

Negative. You can turn that feature off in Settings.