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Old 03-02-2019, 02:31 PM
oldskewel oldskewel is offline
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Great stuff! Thanks for figuring it all out so carefully.

On this point ...
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Originally Posted by andrewwynn View Post
...All four of wife's door actuators failed one after the other within about 8 months. Coincidence that her car has automatic lock enabled at about 4mph? Not a chance! Wife's car goes through 2-3x as many lock cycles as my car because of the automatic locking!...
Would a helpful and easy setting change be to set the unlocking to only unlock the driver's door, rather than all 4 (which would then require a second press to unlock)? I think that may be the default setting, but many people change it so all 4 unlock on the first press, just for convenience on the occasions that they do need more than the driver's door unlocked.

So then leaving the automatic lock enabled could be done without compromising safety.
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