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Default Toyota keys (why do they lock themselves in the car?)

On 9/25/2017 12:36 PM, Feckless John wrote:
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On 9/24/2017 8:31 PM, June Bug wrote:
These are the key fobs that lock themselves in the car!
http://www.bild.me/bild.php?file=4828475keyfob.jpg

It takes one key to open the car, and two of those doohickies to
start the
car with the one key that opened the car. I don't understand why.

Anyway, I borrowed a friend's Corolla for the weekend and just now I
had to
ask her to let me back into the car because the car locks itself
after an
unknown period of time without any user intervention whatsoever.

What's with that?
She says the car locks itself all the time on its own schedule.

Is there a way for her to turn this off so it can be normal?
Is there a way to make it so that just the key starts the car?


This is the main reason the car keeps locking its doors.
http://tinyurl.com/yd2xrz8b


Does her car start with a fob?* My car has a fob.* No key in the common
form we all grew up with... it's a magical fob, with its very own fob
docking hole.* If you don't have your fob, you aren't going anywhere, and
you have to go directly to a BMW dealer to get a new fob, and they're
expensive... because they're fobs, after all.


'16 Toyo Avalon Limited doesn't have a docking hole; fob just needs to
be in/near the car.


Same with my Genesis and it knows if the fob is out of the car by inches
too. If you leave the fob in the car you cannot lock the doors from the
outside either.