Yeah, life's rough like that... Watch out for the Lexus e-Latch.
Tesla locked owner out with child inside.
- Thread starter loneryder
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Lexus clowns around with crap, that is why I will never own one.
Wow the booze was heavy in this thread.
The granny got locked out side the car. AGAIN, SHE WAS LOCKED OUTSIDE THE CAR !!!!!!
Everyone is showing what to do if your locked inside the car.
SO HOW WOULD THE GRANNY UNLOCK THE CAR TO GET TO HER GRAND KID?
The granny got locked out side the car. AGAIN, SHE WAS LOCKED OUTSIDE THE CAR !!!!!!
Everyone is showing what to do if your locked inside the car.
SO HOW WOULD THE GRANNY UNLOCK THE CAR TO GET TO HER GRAND KID?
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In state of panic etc. human brain does what is used to do.
Pilots train constantly to follow procedures because of this. Regular drivers don’t do that.
But than, Tesla is not car company.
Pilots train constantly to follow procedures because of this. Regular drivers don’t do that.
But than, Tesla is not car company.
I was referring to the article. It mentioned a "hidden" release, but it's right in plain sight although there's no markings per se. I noticed it was some sort of latch almost immediately.
But doors shouldn't lock themselves when stationary. Kids locked the doors in the past.
No latch is marked as such, I agree it's not hidden. Just on the wrong side of the door it seems
+1 Just a minor detail that was overlooked. A young child was locked inside the car. SMHWow the booze was heavy in this thread.
The granny got locked out side the car. AGAIN, SHE WAS LOCKED OUTSIDE THE CAR !!!!!!
Everyone is showing what to do if your locked inside the car.
SO HOW WOULD THE GRANNY UNLOCK THE CAR TO GET TO HER GRAND KID?
Again - this is about the Grandmother being OUTSIDE the car - and unable to manually open the door because the 12V battery died.
So, where is the manual door release on the outside?
If this happened to you, and you’ve clearly read the manual, how do you open the door from the outside?
The same place as every other locked car on the planet.
My key will open my cars. No drama.
You’ve lost your keys - so how do you open your locked Tesla from the outside?
When the battery is dead?
Because from my reading of the owner’s manual - there is NO outside manual way to open the car.
It requires a key fob, phone app, or key card. All three are electronic and all three require the 12V battery to have enough charge to work.
Further, the car has a “walk away” feature, that when it thinks you’re walking away, it locks automatically.
Looks like that happened here. Grandma puts kid in car, walks around to driver’s door, car thinks she is walking away, and locks itself. Battery dies.
Since there is no manual entry option, kid is now trapped in the car, in 100F heat (this happened in Scottsdale, and 100F has been the low lately).
Time to break a window.
That’s it - breaking the window is the only option.
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Phone app, but this post isn't about loosing your keys.
NO, this thread is about how to get into a locked Tesla when the battery dies.
Phone app is equally useless when the battery dies.
There is no physical key, so, the kid is trapped in the car because the car auto-locked itself.
Time to break a window.
In all honesty, discovering that there is no physical key, takes Tesla off the list for my next car. We are planning to get a plug-in hybrid, and I had looked at the Tesla models, but no physical key? Even in 2024, where the keys are electronic, other manufacturers (e.g. Volvo) have a physical, mechanical key, in case there is a problem with the fob, app, or key card.
How do the Tesla dealers get into the car if the battery dies?
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I only read the article and there’s no mention of a toddler getting trapped in the car.
No, you pull off the nosecone on the front bumper to access the jumper post and attach a jump box to it
If your child was trapped in the car, in 100F heat, you would take the time to do all that?
Good thing you don’t have children…
Exactly! It seems the OP mixed two incidents together. The television news story is about Diane getting locked inside her car. The OP's text talks about some toddler being locked inside the car with grandma outside.
Seems like two different incidents to me. Maybe that's why there's this back and forth going on here.
At any rate, with respect to Diane, the woman in the television news story, the person locked inside her car - not knowing there was a right in plain sight - a so called "secret" handle - to open the door from the inside - let me just say I'm glad she doesn't fly airplanes. She'd be clueless in even the most minor situation.
In other words, no sympathy for the Diane part of the story. In my business it's a simple case of RTFM.
Scott
can you get to the jump box in the trunk if you have no power to open the door?
