GL locking/unlocking
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2008 GL 320 CDI
If the key fob is set to only open the driver's door when you first hit "unlock", then the car will remember this and only unlock the driver's door when you arrive at your destination and open the door. However, if you hit the key fob a second time to unlock the other doors (or have it set to unlock all the doors with the initial press of the "unlock" button), then all the doors will unlock when you later open the driver's door. This works for me and I do not have keyless go.
This makes sense, since when you're driving alone you normally hit the unlock button only once to open the driver's door. When you're travling with passengers, you hit it a second time to unlock the remaining doors, so when you arrive at your destination those doors once again unlock to let them out. If the internal setting were permanently changed to only unlock the driver's door, then you'd have to manually unlock the passenger doors each time (or they would have to pull up the locking knobs) before they could exit the vehicle. That would become old pretty fast.
This makes sense, since when you're driving alone you normally hit the unlock button only once to open the driver's door. When you're travling with passengers, you hit it a second time to unlock the remaining doors, so when you arrive at your destination those doors once again unlock to let them out. If the internal setting were permanently changed to only unlock the driver's door, then you'd have to manually unlock the passenger doors each time (or they would have to pull up the locking knobs) before they could exit the vehicle. That would become old pretty fast.
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If the key fob is set to only open the driver's door when you first hit "unlock", then the car will remember this and only unlock the driver's door when you arrive at your destination and open the door. However, if you hit the key fob a second time to unlock the other doors (or have it set to unlock all the doors with the initial press of the "unlock" button), then all the doors will unlock when you later open the driver's door. This works for me and I do not have keyless go.
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2008 GL 320 CDI
I don't know about that. I set it to open only the driver's door on the first press, and I had the kids with me yesterday (hit the button twice to unlock, because of passengers). On arrival at our destination, neither of the front doors opening would open all the doors. I had to hit the unlock button to unlock the rear doors.
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GL locking/unlocking
