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      09-15-2013, 01:35 AM   #42
davjo68
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Drives: 2013 BMW 335i Sport Sedan
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Originally Posted by elistan View Post
Did you lock it from outside? The manual also says this:

Locking from the outside
Do not lock the vehicle from the outside if
there are people in it, as the vehicle cannot be
unlocked from inside without special knowledge.
Yes, I had my partner lock it from the outside with the fob since other posts had commented that this may be a design feature for security. I highly doubt that BMW would intentionally engineer the vehicle in such a manner that people inside the car could be left with no way to exit if the vehicle is locked from the outside, and it turns out, barring a potential malfunction, that this is not possible, as long as the occupants know that the door handle has to be pulled twice to open the door. That last part is the "special knowledge" the manual references in the event the occupants are not used to this standard of unlocking a BMW since it differs from most other vehicle makes.

I also agree with the other posts that something is afoul with what happened to this girl, the story just does not make sense as reported since the girl could have done many things to get out of the car even if she was truly "trapped" inside by a faulty locking system.
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