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My gf has OCD and has to lock things in a pattern. I’ve been conditioned to do it too.
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my second lock turns the headlights off. they go off automatically after a while, but I don't wanna risk it. >

All cars have that feature. If you keep your lights burning long enough they will stop.
Edit future to feature.
So the joke below stays. >

Not all, but maybe in the feature they will.
(edit, not funny anymore now spelling has been updated, but will keep the comment) >

All cars have a battery that will run out. >

Hmm, feature vs future? >

Ah, thanks. >

Sorry, was just trying to be funny! >

No worries, it is a future in the feature it think >

Why would my car reward me with a little toot toot if i wasnt supposed to lock it twice. >

Yep, and wife glares at me since she was walking in front of the car when the toot pops off. >

Thats just good Partner Etiquette. >

Yep, you're just never sure if the first button press took. >

My gosh you sound like my father. He presses it like 67 times until he could audibly hear the beep enough to comfortably feel that it's sufficiently locked. Part of me knows he does it just to irritate me but another part of me knows he doesn't because he does it when nobody's around too >

I do that too but it's because the power locks are fucked and only sometimes decide to work. Occasionally I'll come back and the hatch or passenger side door will still be unlocked despite the rest of them being locked. >

I press the lock button on the door as I exit the vehicle and then walk away. Haha.
You get a pass on this one... For now... Go fix your lock motors. We'll know if you don't. Someone is always watching! 😂😜 >

Dude I'm rocking summer tires in the back, exaughst leaks, evap leaks, rust. I've got more important shit to worry about unfortunately. >

But your keyless remote works? 🤣
Yes, yes, I would definitely say you have to get some things in order. Haha >

From what I know, when you press it once everything locks.  On the second press the horn honks, giving confirmation that it is locked.  Also the horn won’t honk if a door or the trunk is left open, so I always press twice to hear the horn. >

If a door or trunk isn't shut, mine beeps 4 times to alert you. >

My car beeps to let me know all doors are closed and it's ready to lock, then when I get ten feet away I can hear the doors lock and it beeps again. If I'm too far away (someone else got out slower than me), it'll beep rapidly to tell me it couldn't lock. 
I don't even hear the first beep anymore, but I sure as hell hear it if it doesn't do it. >

Mine will sometimes unlock the driver door after I've pushed it once so I do it twice because of that >

I hit the unlock button instead and let it auto-lock 15 seconds later on the timer, while walking away. >


opportunistic thieves liked this >

I always lock it...then walk away, and unlock it, then lock it again.  Just to make sure. >

You have to lock and unlock 3 times so Charlie doesn’t die. >

My key fob only unlocks my car. The lock function doesn't work on it at all. So you are even more correct than you probably thought possible >

You can probably open it up and clean the switch contacts. I replaced the battery in mine today, and cleaned the switch contacts while I had it opened. >

That's worth a shot, thx >

You also have to pull the handle to test it after pressing the button twice 😂 then walk away, then look back and press the button again just to make absolutely sure. Again. >

And then once more, just in case you accidentally hit the unlock button that last time. >

One press of unlock--unlocks just the driver side door
two press of unlock--unlocks all doors
one press of lock--seems to lock all doors
two presses of lock--yep locks all doors, here's a beep to let you know they are locked, have an alarm activated too , free of charge, you OCD fuck >

Had an old car that locked on press one but turned the interior alarm sensors off on the 2nd lock. Kinda forced you out of the need for multiple presses. >

A LOT of cars do this! How old they are is irrelevant, people should check their manuals etc. If people do this "just because" then there are probably many people disabling their alarms and/or internal sensors without realising. >

I thought clicking twice turns on the alarm? >

It varies by car, which is why I said about checking the manual.
Anecdotally, 4 out of 5 cars I have had all disabled either the alarm or the internal sensors on the second click, and 3 out of 5 of my wifes were the same. All of these were completely different models, with 1 brand crossover. In the brand crossover one did it and one didn't. So there's no rhyme or reason to it seemingly, best to just double check. >

Oh my god those people that aren’t okay with hearing it lock - or beep like many cars do - and have to hit it again to hear it honk. Always makes me think of a monkey banging cymbals together. >

And these cars that do a full power horn honk when people press the button infinity times “just to be sure” are just so trashy.
15 years ago almost no car honked its horn when you locked it. Just those nice discreet beeping sounds. I’ve lived in the same part of town for 20 years, never lock my car anywhere and have never had it broken into but every time I go to the grocery store now some classless douchebag will arm their full-honk car right as a pass in front of it.
Almost no cars require you honk the horn to lock the doors with the remote. But there are a lot of oblivious idiots who drive. >

Almost all cars can be switched back and forth, both 10+ years ago and today. You hold down the lock button on your fob for a few seconds. No more beeps. >

My friend taught me a trick in college and it has always worked with every fob: point it under your neck upward towards your head when using it. 
Excellent when you can't find your car, and the signal doesn't seem to work. I'm a designer and not a scientist, but I'm guessing our brain is also an amplifier of various waves. >

Doing this will do what to help me find my car? Make the lights flash brighter? >

Your body acts as an antenna so the signal generally carries further >

Just like pressing the elevator button just once never seems to make it come enough. >

Pushing the crosswalk button once never seems to activate it fast enough. >

It has to think there are lots of people waiting. >

My old car’s lock seems to get sorta jammed or something because sometimes it only half locks and I have to actually use the keyhole to get it to lock fully. >

My truck will lock, but the head and tail lights will only turn off after 10 minutes after the first press.  To speed up the process, I press the lock button a second time and then they turn off immediately.  
2017 Highlander. >

Always had the bad habit of running back and doing it again to be sure. 😂 >

Because it isn't lol. Well, not in my older car it has a locked and dead locked. Click once, and it locks from the outside. Click twice, and it locks from outside and inside. >

what if it announced loudly "it's locked mothafucker" on the second press? >

gotta hear the horn. I try and do just a single press, but anxiety gets to me the further away from my car that I get, that I must turn around and go for the beep >

Honda  does the window crack thing if you hold down the lock button on the second pressing. Not my favorite feature. >

Weird. Every car i've owned will roll down the windows if you hold the UN-lock button long enough. Never heard of a car rolling them down with the lock button. >

I just leave all doors wide open to signal there’s nothing worth stealing in there. If you steal my car, remember service is due in April, and the left taillight needs replacing. >

Just don't press it more than 255 times when you're already outside of you car's range, or your fob will stop working >

Something tells me there's a 'fuck around and find out' back story to this advice. >

I always lock it twice because if I have the dog in the back she sets off the alarm if I've only pressed it once. >

One of on my previous cars you could double-click the lock button which would mean that someone inside the car wouldn't be able to unlock the car door. >

My second press sets the alarm and deadlocks the doors, preventing them from being opened from the inside. >

I've got a bit of an OCD and got an obsession to make sure everything is off. You don't wanna see me check whether the tap 4 consecutive times to check whether it's closed. I hate using turning off has stoves too >

What is more annoying is that in my car, for some reason, I have to click 3-4 times to open the passenger side and the truck. There is also no way to change this to just one click. >

Entirely depends on the fob and the car.
My older car (Renault Cliosport) has a single button, pressing it again just unlocks the car, making it way less locked.
My newer car (VW Golf), if you press the lock button a second time, it disables the interior sensors, so technically makes the car less secure.
If I hold down the lock button it will raise all of the windows if they are open, similarly, if I hold the unlock it unlocks the car and lowers all of the windows. >

On one of the early key fobs we had, pressing unlock once unlocked the driver door only, twice unlocked the whole car.
Pressing lock once locks the doors, but twice makes it honk or make another noise.
Combined, we've been trained to double-click. >

One of my previous cars locked on the first press, then the second press turned on the alarm and immobilizer. It's now a habit. >


One of my previous cars locked on the first press, then the second press turned on the alarm and immobilizer. It's now a habit.

Exactly.  I need to hear the beep from the horn that accompanies the second press. >

I lock it by pressing a button on the door handle. It doesn't beep, just flashes the emergency lights once.
Don't you guys have those buttons? Why is everyone using fobs? >

Lol my friend thinks if you have to push it twice to unlock all doors then you must also push it twice to lock all doors. I asked if that meant one push only locks the driver door and they said "shut up" lol. >

Just like hitting the button outside an elevator will make it come faster. >

Pressing it a 2nd time turns off headlights and turns on the alarm, 1 press isn't enough. >

You need to let the entire neighborhood know that your car is locked! So they do not try to steal your radio. >

If it is not locked, locked, locked, then it is not locked. Goes for all locks. >

And then some genius thought it was a great idea to put the engine start at 3 lock presses so now I can't spam press more than twice without going over to my car again to make sure the engine isn't running.