96 Avalon: Doors keep unlocking

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allan.young@gmail.com - 19 Mar 2007 06:16 GMT

Hello,

On our 96 Avalon, when I use the door lock button/rocker switch on the
interior of the door (both driver and passenger side) to lock the door
all doors, the doors immediately unlock.

If I continuously hold down the button/rocker in the lock position,
the door locks try to snap to unlock position at one second intervals.

I can't figure this out. I want to be able to lock the doors from the
inside!

Does anyone have advice or experience on this?

Regards,
Allan

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Ray O - 19 Mar 2007 07:17 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> Regards,
> Allan

If the key is in the ignition, the door lock module will not allow the doors
to be locked from the inside to prevent locking the keys in the car.

If the doors unlock even with the key out of the ignition, then there is a
problem with the ignition switch - either the switch is not completely in
the off and locked position, or the switch that senses the presence of a key
may be faulty. I would suspect that the key detector switch is bad if
someone has a heavy key chain because a heavy key chain puts a big load on
the switch.

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Danny G. - 20 Mar 2007 22:24 GMT

>> Hello,
>>
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> If the key is in the ignition, the door lock module will not allow the doors to be locked from the inside to prevent locking the
> keys in the car.

-- snip -- snip --

LOL, I hate to admit it but one time I spent about 10 minutes trying to lock
my car (thinking something was broken too) at a shopping center before I
noticed the key was still in the ignition.

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Ray O - 21 Mar 2007 03:49 GMT

>>> Hello,
>>>
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> my car (thinking something was broken too) at a shopping center before I
> noticed the key was still in the ignition.

Been there, done that too! ;-)

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Mordak - 19 Mar 2007 08:13 GMT

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:16:59 -0700, allan.young wrote:

> Hello,
>
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> Regards,
> Allan

This may be normal if the car 'thinks' there is a key in the ignition and
a door is open.

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