<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Don:
In my MDX, if the remote is pressed to unlock the doors, and the doors are not opened within 30 secs, the doors automatically re-lock. However, I have not noticed that the doors lock by themselves if I have not locked the doors when exiting.</font>
I got curious on this thread, particularly after an experience this morning where my 6 year old son came back in crying (he's very sensitive) that he couldn't get the Ody doors to open (3-day old '02 EX). He loves to use the remote to go open the doors, but he has to unlock it first. Somehow, someway, he insisted that he had unlocked it but the door wouldn't open.
Well, I was able to get it open--I wondered why it was still locked, given that he insisted that he had unlocked it.
After reading this thread, particularly about the MDX, I just went out to check--sure enough, if you unlock the door(s) with the remote and then don't open a door within 25 to 26 seconds (by my count), the doors then re-lock themselves.
I can only presume in my son's case, that he may have hit the unlock button from a distance, but it was about 25 seconds before he got up close to the car and tried the door--but at that point, it had re-locked itself.
- RW