Originally Posted by Qsilver7

I hope not. What if an adult passenger wanted to remain in the car on an extremely hot or cold day while you needed to take care of business some distance away from the vehicle?

You're thinking that the engine will cut off after a certain distance? That would leave passengers to either freeze or die of heat stroke all because they wanted to stay in the vehicle.

The immobilizer (EWS?) prevents the car from starting when an official key isn't present. This isn't the scenario you're presenting because you have the engine already running.

If the vehicle shut down and you were away from the vehicle...then the passengers wouldn't be able to restart the vehicle due to EWS (no official key present).


What you don't want to ever do is LOCK passengers or animals inside the vehicle with your remote or from the driver's exterior door lock cylinder (let the passengers lock the vehicle from inside using the central locking button on the center console or individually lock the doors using the door lock pins). Locking with the remote or using the driver's exterior door lock cylinder puts the vehicle in double-lock mode as well as arms the interior motion sensor and the tilt sensor. Approximately 30 seconds after you've walked away and locked them inside the vehicle...as soon as they move, the interior motion sensor will sound off the alarm...and the passengers will NOT be able to UNLOCK the doors because the interior door handles are disabled when the vehicle is double-locked (armed). And if you have a pet inside the car, the horn and light show will freak them out.