Automatic Door Locking Over; 20 Km/H; Door Release In The Event Of An 83 Accident - Maserati Quattroporte Automatic Owner's Manual

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In the event of activation of
the inertia switch, the doors
are electrically unlocked; if the
child safety lock is enabled, the rear
doors can only be opened from the
outside.
The child safety device remains
enabled even when the central door
locking is activated.
WARNING: With the doors locked and
the child safety lock enabled, if the
battery is flat or malfunctions, the rear
4
doors remain locked both from the
inside and the outside.
Always use this device when
carrying children, to prevent
them opening the doors while
the vehicle is moving.
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Doors

Automatic door locking over

20 km/H

Using the Multi Media System the
doors, engine and luggage
compartment lids and fuel tank flap
can be set to lock automatically when
the vehicle's speed exceeds 20 km/h
(12 mph).
For activating/deactivating this
function, please consult the "Multi
Media System" manual.
WARNING: If you need to have the
vehicle tested on a roller bench with
nobody onboard, you must verify,
through the vehicle set-up menu, that
the automatic door locking feature -
that is activated upon exceeding 20
Km/h is disabled, or that a window is
open, or that you have ad additional
key left out of the vehicle.
Door release in the event of an
accident
In the event of a collision with
activation of the inertia switch, the
door locks can be automatically
released to allow rescuers to access the
passenger compartment from outside.
If the centralised locking has
been activated from the inside
and, following a collision, the
inertia switch was unable to activate
the door release function due to loss
of the battery or damage to it, it will
not be possible to access the
passenger compartment from outside.
However, whether the doors can be
opened or not depends on the
condition they are in and, in fact, if a
door is bent it may be impossible to
open it, even if the lock is not
engaged. In this case, attempt to open
the other doors.