Locked out

[oldskewel]

Originally Posted by Qsilver7

To OldSkewel:

You said the car battery is fine...so was the car double locked prior to you being locked out? I ask because if you have been inserting things inside the cabin...the IMS (interior motion sensor) should have set things off. So if the IMS hasn't activated...is the red clown nose flashing (the status LED below the interior rear view mirror)?

Thanks for carefully reading my long post.

Battery is definitely fine. Relatively new, no problems. Clown nose still flashing red as it should. Orange LED next to the P on the shifter still illuminated.

If it would give good info, I can try bumping or jacking the car up to set off the motion sensor alarm.

Originally Posted by Qsilver7

In order for the the "secret" interior UNLOCK procedure to work when the car has been double locked...requires that the car's battery is charged because the FZV (central locking) to work...requires electrical power. And to others reading this...anything 1999-back...when double locked...the car is LOCKED and will require a working key to unlock the car...you must have a 2000-up BMW to unlock a double-locked BMW using the procedure below but you MUST also have electrical power. They central lock/unlock button must have power to work:

1. Press the interior central locking button (once)
2. Pull TWICE on an interior door handle

Mine is a MY2001, so that method *should* work, it seems.

Since the key fobs were not working, the car was locked (as done all the time when fobs are not working) using the key in the door lock, automatically locking all four doors and starting the clown nose blinking.

Not happy to hear that this is the "secret" method. Is it the same one handed out by UCrewX5 by secret courier and handshake? Was hoping for something different from UCrewX5 or someone who got the method from him at some point over the years.

Regarding the pressing of the central console lock/unlock button ... What exactly should happen when it is properly pressed, if things are going according to this plan? Should I hear anything click, clunk, see anything light up, etc.? I assume the doors themselves will not show any activity, otherwise the instructions would be to pull open the outer door handle. Right?

I tried it a few times, as I said, not sure I was pressing it fully, and not getting any sort of confirmation that it had been pressed (and am in a quiet area, so I would hear a click if it happened). Since I tried a few times, I'm guessing the requirement to hit the button once (or I assume an odd number vs. even number of times) was met, but will try more carefully next time.

Any other ideas or finer points in the method?

Does the center console button sound like it's the UCrewX5 secret method? I've been waiting to hear on that before doing the really difficult or destructive approaches.