Originally Posted by Vbp6US (Post 1725264)

I always press and release immediately. It's just completing a circuit I think which triggers the locking mechanism to disarm.

Originally Posted by macaddict111 (Post 1724528)

I'm sort of wondering if you don't have your "battery saver switch" in? There's a couple fuses that the dealer leaves popped out so the battery doesn't go dead. Among the functions is the intelligent key "always searching" (i.e. the way it should work is the car is always looking for the fob, and it will have already found it once you walk up and by the time you press the button it's already authenticated, vs the battery saving function where it never searches until you press the button, then it goes through all that which takes some time), the air conditioning memory, and the intelligent key chime. Do you get a chime when you unlock the doors with the request switch?

Originally Posted by macaddict111 (Post 1725871)

The "push and hold required" cars do so out of a safety concern. (You don't want the computer cranking the car through the garage if something wrong and it managed to get in gear when you can't just let go to stop it). It's the same reason we have to hold down the brake. Holding down the brake was never required until these auto-cranking cars came around. I would be curious to know whether the "push and hold" cars like the Range Rover require the brake to be depressed.