Is it possible to rewire a 2001 to add Auto Lock and Unlock? Anyone done this?

 

what do you mean auto lock? you mean have it lock itself about 30 seconds after the last door is closed?

 

With the alarm system that I had added to my '93 Honda Accord, the doors automatically lock after approx. 5 seconds. When you turn the car off, the doors automatically unlock. I was wondering if there was an add-on or if someone knew of a way to re-wire the Maxima to do this.

 

Aftermarket alarms are the only ones I know that have those features. Not unless you add an aftermarket one to the pre-existing stock alarm.

 

I was wondering about this too on my 2K2..I'm soo damn used to having the doors lock/unlock on their own [having owned a Grand Am for 3 yrs]. So, only possible w/an aftermarket alarm?

 

I was just thinking about this the otherday, and I am SO glad that the Max doesn't do it. If I want the doors locked, I'LL LOCK THEM!!! There was a great editorial about this in either Car & Driver or MotorTrend this month. It was call the Nanification of the Automobile.

 

Ya, I read that too..it was in MotorTrend..the author's points were interesting and I agreed with some of them. Guess I'm just used to the car doing something for me that I would do anyways.

 

I heard that! I drove my wife's 2002 Camry for a couple of days last week when my car was in the body shop and I have never been more irritated with a car in my life. As soon as you put it in drive all the doors lock. That would be fine if they would all unlock when you put it in park--but they don't. So I would get out and go to open the back door to get something out of my back seat and guess what--its locked!!! Have to go searching for the dang remote or open the front door back up and press the unlock button. Also if you unlock the doors with the remote and don't open the doors within about 20 seconds it locks the dang doors back!

When I go to buy a new Max, if it has these features I will find another kind of car that doesn't.

On the same note, the Corvettes used to come standard with a system that could sense the remote keychain and would lock the doors once you got a certain distance away from the car and unlock when you came back near the car. That might be kinda cool. Any body seen an aftermarket alarm that would do this?

 

Thats odd w/the camry and all. GA's have the option to get rid of that feature just press a couple buttons and it wont do it anymore. Can have it lock on drive, unlock on park; or lock on drive and unlock when ignition is turned off..or of course, not have it do any of that at all. Oh well..[not like you prob. care..lol] guess i'm in the minority in actually liking that feature.

 

And which couple of buttons would that be??? It really does not matter to me but the wife may want to change it around. I long as my Max is around I'm not going anywhere near that Camry again!

 

oh, sorry man..I meant on the Grand Am..I have no clue about a Camry. It was pretty clear what to do to disable it in my Grand Am..the owners manual had instructions on it. Maybe the Camry owner's manual has it if its easily defeatable by the user? Sorry for the misunderstanding

 

I remember that on the late C4's, haven't heard mention of it on the C5's. It was a cool system using a trans-something or other (can't remember the term) in the remote. The car would transmit on a frequency. If the remote was in range and if the frequency matched it would unlock. Very nice, but maybe it used too much power by having to transmit all of the time.

My 93 Grand Am would lock, but would never ever unlock. It was because I had a stick, the auto would unlock once in park. The door latch on the drivers side broke because of it. So then it would lock, but not unlock even when the button was pushed. You had to manually unlock it. God I hated that car!!!

 

Its really not that hard. Here's a starting point. You'd need a 555 timer (maybe 2), a couple of resistors and capacitors. The input would be triggered by the ignition wires state (high/low on/off). The output would patch into your same wire as the driver side open/close switch wire. The resistor/capacitor would control the delay you want the car lock after, in secs.

some links to get you started (like $10 dollars in parts from radio shack)
http://www.williamson-labs.com/480_555.htm

http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~kap/Hard/555...00000000000000

hope it helps