parking lights flash when locking / unlocking?

[juddcampbell]

currently my car does nothing and if I am not standing right beside the car I cannot hear the locks click. how do I go about setting the remote lock to get the parking lights to flash? or even the horn to beep perhaps?

[Jon39]

Do the door mirrors not fold inwards, when you lock your car?

I don't know whether this feature is an option, or perhaps standard on only some of the model years.

[PetesAMV8]

My understanding from a recent chat with the service manager at AM Orlando was that these mods can be done at the AM shop, so you can ask to have the mirrors fold in (or not) when you lock the car. He said some folks choose not to so the mechanism lasts longer... or dealers might stop the auto fold feature if they don't work very well.... I have to manually push the buttons to get them to fold. Not sure about the 'horn beep' tho'.

Pete

Jon39 said:

Do the door mirrors not fold inwards, when you lock your car?

I don't know whether this feature is an option, or perhaps standard on only some of the model years.

[juddcampbell]

I have a 2009 DB9 Volante, the mirrors do not fold in when I lock the car. My closest dealer is 3.5 hours drive so I would like to keep the visits to a minimum !

[Jon39]

juddcampbell said:

I have a 2009 DB9 Volante, the mirrors do not fold in when I lock the car. My closest dealer is 3.5 hours drive so I would like to keep the visits to a minimum !

I have to admit usually being rather lazy with the handbook, but I have just had a look.
For the Vantage it states, Auto Fold (Option). Presumably Option means not all cars have the feature.
As you mentioned, it does say in the handbook, Refer to Dealer to enable / disable the Auto Fold function. - Bother.

You shouldn't need a Dealer though to make the indicator lights flash. Look in the handbook for Security Menu.
Presumably if nothing flashes the Lock and Unlock choices are set to be 'no light', which you should be able to change yourself.

There is another clue that the car has locked. About 20 seconds after locking, you should hear a clunck sound. I presume that is deadlocks operating (or I could be wrong).

Edited by Jon39 on Tuesday 30th May 21:54

[juddcampbell]

Jon39 said:

juddcampbell said:

I have a 2009 DB9 Volante, the mirrors do not fold in when I lock the car. My closest dealer is 3.5 hours drive so I would like to keep the visits to a minimum !

I have to admit usually being rather lazy with the handbook, but I have just had a look.
For the Vantage it states, Auto Fold (Option). Presumably Option means not all cars have the feature.
As you mentioned, it does say in the handbook, Refer to Dealer to enable / disable the Auto Fold function. - Bother.

You shouldn't need a Dealer though to make the indicator lights flash. Look in the handbook for Security Menu.
Presumably if nothing flashes the Lock and Unlock choices are set to be 'no light', which you should be able to change yourself.

There is another clue that the car has locked. About 20 seconds after locking, you should hear a clunck sound. I presume that is deadlocks operating (or I could be wrong).

Edited by Jon39 on Tuesday 30th May 21:54

I have a DB9 not a Vantage. I rarely park where the autofold feature would be required so I would not enable that if given the opportunity.
I do hear the clunk sound immediately after locking the car.

Thank you for the heads up on the Security menu feature, I will explore that menu to see about the light feature.


What type of a range is everyone getting with the remote? mine only seems to be 20 feet or so. I am debating changing the battery however my glass key and valet key both have similar ranges so perhaps that is all it has to give.

[Jon39]

juddcampbell said:

I have a DB9 not a Vantage.

What type of a range is everyone getting with the remote? mine only seems to be 20 feet or so. I am debating changing the battery however my glass key and valet key both have similar ranges so perhaps that is all it has to give.

Yes, I did read yours is a DB9, but only mentioned Vantage because I was looking in a Vantage handbook, with the possibility that there could be differences.

Don't know about the remote range.
Everything is very small here in the UK, - so I am normally close to the car when operating the remote.

[bomberh]

The power fold is an option on my car (V8V) which is a MY07, and if you have the old style dash too, it will no doubt be an option. The reason I say this is because, the old style dash (like mine) doesn't have the option in the settings to turn the power fold on or off. However, the newer style dash has this setting included. On older cars, the technician has to turn it on with the AM Tech PC plugged in, that is if you have the power fold option of course.

So your MY09 (DB9), has an old dash?, not sure if you have the power fold option with your mirrors and if you do, you will need the technician to turn them on.

It use to be a pain, when my car went in for service, the tech would forget to turn them back on again, after having his PC plugged into my car. (When the PC was plugged in, it would cancel the power fold) I now include this in my e-mail before my car goes in to the dealer, in capitals "PLEASE TURN POWER FOLD BACK ON". So far so good they haven't forgotten the last couple of times

[David W.]

Other than as a visual that the car is locked and to stop Pied Wagtails fighting themselves in them in the early hours of the morning why would you want the mirrors folding upon locking?

DW

[juddcampbell]

bomberh said:

The power fold is an option on my car (V8V) which is a MY07, and if you have the old style dash too, it will no doubt be an option. The reason I say this is because, the old style dash (like mine) doesn't have the option in the settings to turn the power fold on or off. However, the newer style dash has this setting included. On older cars, the technician has to turn it on with the AM Tech PC plugged in, that is if you have the power fold option of course.

So your MY09 (DB9), has an old dash?, not sure if you have the power fold option with your mirrors and if you do, you will need the technician to turn them on.

It use to be a pain, when my car went in for service, the tech would forget to turn them back on again, after having his PC plugged into my car. (When the PC was plugged in, it would cancel the power fold) I now include this in my e-mail before my car goes in to the dealer, in capitals "PLEASE TURN POWER FOLD BACK ON". So far so good they haven't forgotten the last couple of times

mine has the updated dash being an 09. I will check the manual the next time I get into the car. Thank you guys.