Hey,

Alright, so here's my issue. My 2012 won't autolock after a set amount of time it's been sitting there. Scenario: I get in the car, drive to location, turn off, get out, and go away. In theory the car should autolock by it's self. It does not! What it does do is: unlock car, walk away, car auto locks... Does this car not have an auto-lock feature which is standard on all other medium end cars I own (toyota and nissan)? If it does, what am I doing wrong? The auto-lock feature in the settings menu is set to 30 seconds, but still nothing.

Thanks for any insight into this!

 

What you have observed is exactly what the Acura keyless entry system is designed to do.

The auto-lock function doesn't automatically lock the doors (and arm the security system) for you after you've left the car.

First you've to lock the doors manually. Only then it will relock the doors if you accidentally pressed the "unlock door" button on the keyfob. The 30-second setting is the wait time before the system relocks the doors under the above condition.

 

wouldnt that be nice if when you walked away from the car it auto locked....

 

For those who park their cars inside their house garages, they may not want to lock the doors at all.

 

i dont, i usually leave me key in the car at home....but i would still like a feature that enables the locks after the key gets a certain distance away....

 

Your understanding of the auto lock feature is wrong. The way it works is. If you have a locked car. You unlock but then decide not to per say use the car. Door was never opened after initial unlock. It will auto lock itself after the preset time. It does NOT work the way of auto locking after exiting if you don't lock it yourself.

 

Isn't that a feature of many low-end and high end cars? I find that it is a fairly huge design flaw that the TL is lacking such an important feature. My 20k cars do this, why can't my near 40k car? =/

 

I have trouble seeing this as an issue at all, but it's certainly not a "fairly huge design flaw". One can lock the car from inside, from outside by simply pushing a little button on the door, or from several feet away using the remote. And it's a "fairly huge design flaw" that, notwithstanding this, it doesn't do it for you? I, for one, would never feel comfortable if i didn't take a positive step to lock the car.

As well, Edward'TLS raises a very valid point...auto-locking would be a huge annoyance when parking in the garage. My wife's Expedition auto-locks on motion, and doesn't automatically unlock...park in the garage, and walk around to the passenger side to let the kid out, and if you forgot to unlock, you walk back. Do you know how many times I've yelled out the name "Ford" preceeded by another word beginning with "F"?

 

Alright, it was a slight exaggeration, but I guess I have to get used to manually locking the car. I'm used to just walking away and having the car lock for me. (All my previous cars did). Guess it'll just take a bit of time.

Thanks for the info guys!

 

None of the North Amerian Honda/Acura vehicles, ranging from the $15K Fit to the $50K RL, will lock all doors by itself behind the driver's back.

 

This is my first Honda. Most of my other cars have been Toyota. All of them do that. (from my 19k tC to my 30k Camry, and well beyond)

 

^^^^^

Learn something new every day.

 

Hah, same here. I'm liking the TL so far. It's a beautiful car. Only wish I had gotten the SH-AWD model instead. But can't dwell on that too much.

 

I don't think any mfg auto locks with factory alarm. I've yet to seen that, and it's kind of a bad thing, let's say ur keys fall out your pocket... Then u leave your car.... Hey guess what auto lock just made u call triple a. I personally can't stand that aftermarket auto lock when I'm working on a car and leave the keys in it and the alarms arms....

 

Exactly. Why would you want the car to lock itself? I would find that annoying and potentially troubling.

 

Sorry to be late in this discussion but I have a similar problem with the car not supporting the auto-lock walk away feature. I have the japanese version of the acura tl - the honda accord tl, year 2007 and the car does not support that feature. yet still all of them that was release up to year 2006 (same shape, same model, shape and model runs from 2002 - 2008) support it. I cant see why the manufacturer see it necessary to discontinue the feature, since there is an option where the dealer could deactivate it for you if you dont want it. So install it for those who want to keep it. There is even a simple way of deactivating it temporarily yourself. I was and still is very disappointed when i found out mine did not support it, moreso cuz the 2005 release support it. The feature can be convenient regardless of what you might think. if you dont want it you can always deactivate it or temporarily disable it. I wud do anything to have the feature, trust me.

 

Then clearly I'm missing the point. I can certainly see "wanting" the feature, but when I hear things such as...
(a) "fairly huge design flaw" (Blaze9)
(b) "very disappointed when i found out mine did not support it" (servwell)
(c) "I wud do anything to have.."(servwell)
...I can't help but feel that some of you are "tilting at windmills". I can tell you unequivocally that if it was an included feature, I would have had it disabled immediately. I say this in part because I know how frustrated I get when my wife's Expedition locks me out, or when I hit unlock on the TL, and then take longer than 30 seconds to open a door, and have to run back to the house to grab the fob again. But the other reason is I've got so many other options. I can lock from inside. I can hit the button on the door. I can hit the fob. So although I try, I really can't sympathize with these extreme expressions of disappointment over something that is so (admittedly only to me) trivial.

Again, I must just be missing the point.

 

I agree with Sockpuppet! My BMW X5 and Volvo S80 T6 both would auto lock the car if you walked way from the car with the keys after like 90 seconds or something. That wasn't a bad idea and helped in one or two Mall instances. I park in the garage and typically leave my keys in the car so no big issue because those cars wouldn't lock if the keys in the car. My new TL is working just fine despite me locking my keys in the truck by mistake last week :o(. That sucked! Those darn Japanese should have figured idiots like me were out there and spent hours designing a system that would recognize that the car is locked, truck was opened, and the keys were locked in there... Just kidding,,,

 

That was one of the features the dealer demoed for me when I bought the car - open trunk, throw in keys, close trunk, car beeps and opens trunk back up.

Maybe it's a tech feature, I didn't look at any other trim levels.