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Weird security feature on my Camry

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steppinthrax

Diamond Member
I have a 1999 camry. I just installed a keyless entry/remote start system in it. I noticed something about my camry before installing it. My car has power locks. If you are sitting in the driver side with the doors locked and you push the rocker switch to unlock the doors. Then you open the driver door open, with the door open you push the rocker switch to lock the doors then close the driver door. If you push the rocker switch to unlock the doors from the inside it will no longer work. If you manually unlock the driver door from the inside it will start working again.

It seems to make sense because if you lock all doors noone should be in the car anymore to unlock.

Does this make any sense as why it exist???
 
Originally posted by: MegaVovaN
Probably to lock kids inside and leave them baking in closed car under sun.
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That's probably a Japanese type of thing and they figured it would be more expensive to make another locking moudule for the American Version so they just used the same...
 
Mt Acura does that. If you lock the car with the key fob and then try to unlock it manually, the alarm goes off 🙁.
 
I just fixed it. There are two sets of wires that Unlock and Lock the door on the Camrys.

There is an Kick panel on the driver's side that comes off. It contains a white plug. There are two green wires. They RUN DIRECLTY TO THE ROCKER SWITCH. I was connected directly to those. It works however I encounter that problem I just described. I was mislead when I used this website.

http://www.geocities.com/ycartf/index.html?

This person used the two green wires to connect his alarm unit.

I called the company who manufactures my remote starter/alarm unit. The Correct wires that are supposed to be used are the ones on the orange connector on the bottom of the fusebox they are a drk blue and drk blue/white wires. I re-tapped into those connections instead and it works perfeclty regardless of how the door was previouslly locked.

I think I'm going to email that guy so that he makes the change....
 
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