On the 2021 id4, if you leave your keys inside the car and the door locks, is there a way to open it with your phone... Or an app?
Is there a way to open doors if key is locked inside?
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Consider the source….
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It should not be possible but if you are still concerned, and determined to lock your fob in the vehicle, you can pop the “valet” key out of the fob and then you will be able to use the emergency lock cylinder inside the door handle.
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100% solution there where such is rarely possible. You win the Internet Today, Plant Peon! Tell your boss!
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Oh YES, Absolutely! If the key is in a dead spot 100%
Happen to me. I forgot my key in the gym bag, open the trunk, closed it and that was the end of it!
What a F..g shit. VW does NOT GET IT to do even such a simple thing right!
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This happened to me and my kid was in the backseat strapped into her car seat. We were leaving my grandfather's house, put my purse down on the front passenger seat, put her into her car seat, closed the doors to walk around the other side. When I did that the horn honked loudly one time and then the doors were all locked. I don't know if I touched the lock button by accident but the second key was with my husband who was taking a walk and was already at least a few hundred feet away when I closed the doors. Thank goodness he was relatively nearby so we could get it unlocked (and that I was with other people who had a cellphone, mine was also locked in the car). Now I don't leave my key in the car when I'm walking to the other side.
Late to this convo, but can confirm that it is possible to have the car lock you out - we had a similar experience that others are reporting, where we were loading a bunch of stuff in the trunk, and the key fob was in one of the bags in the trunk - once we closed the trunk via the button on the hatchback door, the car was locked and would not open. Thankfully, we were a mile from home and got a ride from a friend to retrieve the second fob. Had we been on a trip or something, we would have been SOL. We have learned our lesson…
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Just happened to me. Put my backpack (with fob inside) in the hatchback, closed the hatch and walked around to get in the driver's door that was locked.
How could the car lock without seeing a key. How could it lock from the back. Going to have to bother a relative in the morning for my spare key. #VWDumpsterFire
How could the car lock without seeing a key. How could it lock from the back. Going to have to bother a relative in the morning for my spare key. #VWDumpsterFire
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Happened to me as well. Key in backpack and used the kick sensor to open the rear hatch. Put the dog in the dog cage, backpack in trunk and closed the hatch by clicking the electronic closing button. Luckily I had the phone in my pocket and not in the backpack. My wife had to come with the second fob, luckily she was only 10km away. It has only happened once. I've had the hatch refuse to close a couple of times earlier when it has detected the key.
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Ummm yes you can. Mine is running with fob inside and door locked itself.
You can lock your keys inside the car if you have another key outside the car. If you don’t have a second key outside the car you can’t lock your key inside the car. There may be ways to fool the key location sensors, however, but that’s the way it’s designed to work.
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I just locked, unintentionally, my 2023 ID4 with key fob inside! Very frustrating! I tried to open the door using the app but I couldnt find such option!
I was lucky to find my spare key and unlock the car. If this had happened when at another place, I would have been a very unhappy ID4 customer!
How much effort is needed to add this feature to the app?
I was lucky to find my spare key and unlock the car. If this had happened when at another place, I would have been a very unhappy ID4 customer!
How much effort is needed to add this feature to the app?
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You may want to go back and edit your earlier post so no one finds and reads incorrect information in the future.
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- Rear hatch is open.
- You lock the car with the fob.
- You go to access something in the cargo area and absent-mindedly put your fob down in the cargo area in a radio-silent area.
- You slam the hatch closed. (I think you could also push the “Close” button on the hatch)
You can also lock one key inside on purpose if you’re carrying the other key… that’s probably an easier way to do it then messing about looking for some radio silent area! In terms of radio silence, I find the hatch won’t close if the key is within about 3 feet of the back bumper, so not sure where you can hide it so it isn’t detected…
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Inside anything that acts (deliberately or inadvertently) as a Faraday Cage (at 433.92MHz in Europe or 315MHz the U.S. and Japan). But I'm also pretty sure that nothing stops the hatch from closing if you close it by hand.
Yeah, I don’t have a Pro, and I’m not willing to test this out on a loaner where they only give me one key … but I suppose you could manually close the lift gate with a key inside… the question is whether it locks or would still reopen?
Try it with a window open.
Good idea… but my Dukes of Hazzard days are behind me!
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Or the backup key far out of radio range (or in a Faraday Bag).
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This literally happened to me today! I sat my purse- w the key on it- on the passenger seat walked around to the driver side and all doors were locked! First time it’s ever done this
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