door locks

Doc · Tue Dec 18, 2012 9:34 am

A customer dropped of an 05 focus to have me replace the front bumper cover and repair the roof. He mentioned that the car will lock the doors all by itself sometimes. It did it while he was here. Car was not locked, he walked like 10 feet away and click, the doors locked. Anyone ever heard of this before and what may be the cause?

Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:04 am

My 02 zts does this all the time. Drives me nuts. No fix I know of.

Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:22 pm

Yup, they do that. No rhyme or reason to it.

My advice is don't leave your keys in the car and if you do you should be sure to leave the window open so you can open the door.

-Steve

Timmers · Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:55 pm

Our 02 wagon did this. Brought it into Tousley and they fixed it somehow. dont know what they did tho

Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:16 am

It is possible to have it disabled, I've never been that inconvenienced by it that I felt I needed to have it done.

focinite · Wed Dec 19, 2012 8:21 am

They reprogramed the patts system. There is a patch for the soft ware. Some of the early ones had a issue with the brake pedal timer. In most cases it will lock the doors ten to twenty seconds after you step on the brake and switch gears to drive away.inzerrrt the doors lock. Some had a wacked timer and some will never do the lock and go. And some will just lock themselves when ever. I am sure some of the ford tecks know the tsb and the updated flash.