Ford Explorer Child Locks Rear Doors

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Ford explorer child locks rear doors.

Rear passenger s side door opens intermittently. Clicking this will. The child safety locks seem to be stuck on the rear passenger doors. Setting the lock for one door will not automatically set the lock for both doors so you must set each child lock on each door separately.

I cannot open them from the inside or the outside there isn t a key hole on the rear doors. The childproof locks are located on the rear edge of each rear door and must be set separately for each door. Either way you flip the switch up or down you still can t open the rear doors from the inside. The auto lock feature on ford vehicles can be both a blessing and a curse.

Though they provide you the added safety of locking your doors as you travel down the road you may not always realize the doors are locked when you exit the vehicle and could accidentally lock yourself out of the car. Vehicle identification number vin 1fmdu34exvu. I have a 1996 ford explorer and i can t open the rear doors from the inside. The childproof locks are located on the rear edge of each rear door and must be set separately for each door.

My 2002 sport trac child proof door locks cannot be disabled by the switches at the rear of the door even though they click positively up and down. Ford is recalling approximately 13 100 2013 ford explorer taurus and lincoln mks vehicles because the child safety locks on the rear doors may be defective the company told edmunds on friday. When these locks are set the rear doors cannot be opened from the inside. Even though all the other locks work fine the rear doors won t open from the inside posted by edward downing on feb 11 2013.

1997 ford explorer rear door child locks won t let doors open from inside even though locks are in ullock position. Fordanswerman ford motor company certified tech replied 11 years ago thanks. Insert the key and turn in the direction of arrow shown on the door to engage the child. Disabling the auto lock.

I turned the lever to unlock the child safety locks to unlock and i m guessing they re broken. So can t try that when i push the unlock button on either of the front doors or try the key lock the rear doors make noise like they are unlocking but you try to open them and they are locked.