Intrinsic

Is there a configuration setting to allow the GLE to lock the doors automatically whenever the key fob goes out of range of the car?

Thanks

GLE43_Sube

No. I miss that feature. I had it on my last car. I got used to just getting out and walking away, assured that the car would lock itself. I had to get used to doing this "manually".

One thing the GLE will do is automatic "re-locking". If you unlock the car using the SmartKey but don't get in, the car will re-lock itself in 40 seconds.

RA112623

did your previous car auto detect if a passenger was still inside and not lock and arm alarm? ron

GLE43_Sube

I never tested that, but i doubt it. I remember two or three times (in 7 years) it didn't detect the key inside and locked it in. I think the key was underneath something. Luckily, each time the car was in the garage, so I had access to the second key. I was always afraid this would happen at a gas station, so I'd always lower the passenger window when I pumped gas.

cadman_ks

It does seem kind of weird that MB doesn't have this feature. I rode in a Honda Civic today that had this feature...

RA112623

if it won't detect a passenger inside, that's probably why they won't let it lock and arm based on walking away. in my dealings with German companies, they pretty much always had a reason for doing something; not that they always made sense.

GLE43_Sube

Like having to press and hold the rear hatch closing button for the entire duration of it closing. They don't trust you to have enough sense to check and see if someone is in the opening.

cadman_ks

Hummmm...

I don't have to hold ours. I just press it once and it goes down...

RA112623

maybe we don't. a 3 year old just died in Nebraska in a car window closing. last i read they are still investigating exactly what happened.

and cadman, the hold is for the driver door remote switch. ron

cadman_ks

I see. I don't think that I've ever tried closing it that way. On our VW, when you closed from the cockpit, there was an audible beep that accompanied the closing.

Come to think of it, doesn't the MB do the audible thing ALL the time? That seems like a pretty acceptable "notice" to me, unless your deaf. That could be one argument for NOT allowing close from the cockpit...