Hi,
I just received my car this week, and while I’m happy with many things, based on experience with cars from other carmakers I have expected that the car automatically locks all doors once the key holder moves away from the car.
With the DS7 this does not happen, car stays unlocked eve if key is on safe distance, which is weird to me. Allowing the car to be unlocked the whole time if the owner forgets !?
In connection to that I also see that the nice LED lights can be used to lighten up the walkway to the home, only if I leave the car unlocked and lock the car with the key from distance, which all carmakers suggest not to do, because of radio key lockers.
Please, has anyone a suggestion if this feature is just hidden somewhere in the Settings or simply does not exist on the DS7 ?
Hi!
Another newbie here, got my 2020 DS 7 two weeks ago and been studying the manual closely.
According to the manual, I believe that feature doesn’t exist on the DS7. At least not in my year model.
You press on the handle in order to lock it (assuming the key is on your person and close to the door).
You can press on the handle on any door btw.
You can also make the car lock all the doors when you close the tailgate with the “kick move” of you have activated that feature with the button situated under the tailgate door.
The locking/unlocking along with the welcome lights and the see you home lights is a complete shambles on the DS.
@ Alex, you are wrong to suggest that no DS has this feature, they DO !
My Ds 4 locks itself when I walk away and will open when I approach, however it is very hit & miss, but it does happen.
The same issue is with the feature lights, some times they illuminate sometimes they dont, same with the auto tailgate, sometimes it will open with the kicking motion, and then it wont.
Even the dealership tech guys have agreed that it’s all a mystery as to why these features are so hit & miss.
After many days of trying different permutations of locking/unlocking, walking away and approaching , I’ve come to the conclusion that it all depends on how you may of previously entered the car.
For an example, if you lock by pressing the remote control you MIGHT get the doors and lights to work together automatically when you next approach, but if you lock by pressing on the remote control, and then deadlock, you have a better chance of everything working as it should.
Unfortunately this only seems to be a short lived result, as it all seems to go south within a few days of locking & unlocking.
I think the issues are mainly based around the remote control and how the “selective” locking/unlocking is set, but unfortunately the manual is very poor at explaining it clearly.
I believe this info is in all manuals ?
My DS4 locks & unlocks when I walk away.
However, this feature is VERY hit & miss, sometimes it does it all the time but then for some reason it just stops doing it ?
Its the same with the welcome lights and the see me home lights, they illuminate but then suddenly stop doing it ?
I’m going back to the dealership tomorrow to get some more info.
Do you have the Matrix LED headlights ?
