Quote Originally Posted by DDH View Post
My Honda was like this. You can lock it if you hold the drivers side door handle up from the outside and then hit the automatic lock, but it takes effort and would still keep you form lockign the keys in your car.
At least my Honda was that way, not sure if yours will work that way.

Anyway, point is, I was always worried about losing that key, and they told me when I bought the car that if I dropped it repeatedly or knocked it around a lot, that could mess it up to make it not work too.

Another thing that I found out later, was that when my battery started going bad in the car, my key would not always work to start it. We figured this one out on our own. We kept getting that little key light in the dash and the car wouldn't start, but if you took it out and tried again it would work.
We finally replaced the battery just because it was getting sluggish about starting and that fixed all problems with the key.
Our 96 Honda Civic cannot be locked from the outside without the key. The driver's door lock will not go down unless the door is shut. You have to use the key.

Our 07 Honda Element CAN be locked with the manual lock, and the door shut without pulling on the handle! I found out the almost hard way (I was at home, so had a spare key.) I owned it for a year before I found this out--all that time I was thinking that the boy could never lock the keys in accidentally. Wrongo!

It also locks itself 30 seconds after you hit the button on the key fob, if you don't open a door before then.

The key fob does not work while the key is in the ignition. I don't remember now why I tried it.

Karen