My kid manually locked my Mazda c-x5 while my purse was in the house (with the fob) and it locked us out while it was still running (was defrosting the windows)

Apparently we glitched the system and it’s not registering my car fob to unlock it now, so I need my car to die so it can reset and I can use my fob to get in.

  • We recently bought it and just found out we have no key in the fob. 🙃

  • It was NOT remote start, he pushed to start it.

I know remote start runs for like 15 min then it will turn off but I think I read after Idling for x amount of time it will auto shut off.

Is that true and for how long will it idle.

Thanks!

  • xxseraph@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This happened to me in my cx-30! I didn’t have the key either in the fob. I couldn’t get in and I was in the middle of no where after a snow storm! It was horrible. I tried everything to unlock it it just said “key not detected” finally after 45 minutes the truck randomly unlocked and I could open it and opened and I was able to climb in. Horrible experience. The Mazda guy said they would be there in 2 hours when I asked for assistance through the app. The app unlock buttons wouldn’t work either.

    • 2squirrley@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Oh wow! That does sound awful 😳 We were at home so we waited inside. Having to wait in the snow would suck!