Doors - Alfa Romeo 159 Owner's Manual

DOORS

CENTRAL DOOR LOCKING/
UNLOCKING SYSTEM
Door locking from the outside
With the doors closed, press the elec-
tronic key button Á or fit and turn the
metal insert (inside the key) into the
lock of the driver's door. Central door
locking can only be activated if all the
doors are closed. If one or more doors
are open after pressing the electronic
key button Á the direction indicators and
the driver's door led will flash fast for
about 3 seconds.
If one or more doors are open by turning
the metal insert of the electronic key, on-
ly the driver's door led will flash fast for
about 3 seconds. If the doors are closed
but the tailgate is open, central locking
is actuated: the direction indicators (only
for locking performed by pressing button
Á) and the driver's door led will flash fast
for about 3 seconds.
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Through the "Setup menu" (or the Ra-
dionavigation system for certain versions)
it is possible to activate the function that
enables to unlock only the driver's door
lock by pressing the electronic key button
Ë (see paragraph "Reconfigurable mul-
tifunction display" in this section).
With this function on (ON) it is howev-
er possible to unlock the other doors by
pressing button q (fig. 90) set on the
central console.
Door unlocking from
the outside
Press the electronic key button Ë or, fit
and turn the metal insert (inside the
key) into the lock of the driver's door.
Door locking/unlocking from
the inside
Press button q (fig. 90) to lock/un-
lock all the doors.
The button is provided with a circular led
indicating the car condition (doors
locked or unlocked). When doors are
locked the led is on: in this case press-
ing the button again will unlock all the
doors and will turn the led off.
fig. 90
With key removed the led will turn off
after about 2 minutes.
When doors are unlocked the led is off;
pressing the button will lock all the
doors. Central door locking will only take
place if all doors are perfectly closed.
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