My VZ locked me out!

[boofis]

Hi all,

Had some fun with my VZ last night and this morning. Funny story actually.

Was at a friends house last night - it's raining up in QLD, and when we went to leave his house (only an hour or so later) my windscreen wipers and lights were back on! Even though they were clearly off when I went in to his house (open door, lock car) >.>

That wasn't a biggy though as the car started. Don't know how long they'd been on for though.

This mornings incident was much more amusing (and rage inducing, may I add). I live on acreage, and had to get out of the car in the pouring rain to open the gate.

As we all know, Commodore doors are heavy and are prone to closing themselves automatically when you get out of your car.

Fair enough, that's not usually a problem - except this morning this happened, and then I heard that distinctive "click" as the bastard locked the doors when the door closed! All of them!!!

So here's me standing in the pissing down rain on my way to work, wanting to kick my car very very hard. I ran back inside (luckily someone was home to let me back in to get my spare key), unlocked it through the key hole and away I went.

Needless to say, I wasn't very impressed, but it made a funny story when I got in to work this morning.

Anyway, on to the serious side of this - what the bloody heck could have caused these "ghosts"..? Perhaps a sign of an impending death of a BCM..?

Cheers

[godders]

LOL...i had to laugh when reading this though potentially quite serious.

will follow this and see what the outcome is...good luck

[acarmody]

Do you leave it in drive when you get out. I know my parents VY has a function that auto locks the doors in drive, maybe getting out and closing door resets it. LOL I really don't know but worth asking.

[ashbox]

Do you leave it in drive when you get out. I know my parents VY has a function that auto locks the doors in drive, maybe getting out and closing door resets it. LOL I really don't know but worth asking.

thats actually a good point.

in regards to the lights and wipers, not sure whats going on there, maybe take it in to somewhere and get the bcm checked.

hopefully its not a bcm on the way out cos they're not cheap and you'll need 2 new key fobs (the black part).

the other option is to pm dr.bob cos he can fix the bcm without the need for new keys

[holdenvtman1123]

door s only lock automatically when the box is placed in one of the drive gears and not park or neutral.

[gslrallysport]

Hi all,

Had some fun with my VZ last night and this morning. Funny story actually.

Was at a friends house last night - it's raining up in QLD, and when we went to leave his house (only an hour or so later) my windscreen wipers and lights were back on! Even though they were clearly off when I went in to his house (open door, lock car) >.>

That wasn't a biggy though as the car started. Don't know how long they'd been on for though.

This mornings incident was much more amusing (and rage inducing, may I add). I live on acreage, and had to get out of the car in the pouring rain to open the gate.

As we all know, Commodore doors are heavy and are prone to closing themselves automatically when you get out of your car.

Fair enough, that's not usually a problem - except this morning this happened, and then I heard that distinctive "click" as the bastard locked the doors when the door closed! All of them!!!

So here's me standing in the pissing down rain on my way to work, wanting to kick my car very very hard. I ran back inside (luckily someone was home to let me back in to get my spare key), unlocked it through the key hole and away I went.

Needless to say, I wasn't very impressed, but it made a funny story when I got in to work this morning.

Anyway, on to the serious side of this - what the bloody heck could have caused these "ghosts"..? Perhaps a sign of an impending death of a BCM..?

Cheers

Had exactly the same problem in my VZ.... right down the wipers and lights. Except that mine locked me out on the way to a rally whilst I was filling up at a servo, and I didn't have time to wait for road side assist, so I grabbed a spare rally car control arm and smashed the rear window (which is tiny in the ute) to get in..

Turned to be a short behind the passenger headlight where the wires had got too hot and shorted out.... An auto eleccy and $80 on a new window and it was fixed...

[boofis]

Had exactly the same problem in my VZ.... right down the wipers and lights. Except that mine locked me out on the way to a rally whilst I was filling up at a servo, and I didn't have time to wait for road side assist, so I grabbed a spare rally car control arm and smashed the rear window (which is tiny in the ute) to get in..

Turned to be a short behind the passenger headlight where the wires had got too hot and shorted out.... An auto eleccy and $80 on a new window and it was fixed...

Interesting! I'll investigate. Was there visible damage (melted, etc)? I'll see if I can see anything weird.... Don't want to take the sucker to Holden because I know I'll get ripped the second I walk in the door.

Do you leave it in drive when you get out. I know my parents VY has a function that auto locks the doors in drive, maybe getting out and closing door resets it. LOL I really don't know but worth asking.

Thanks for the input, my VZ has the same - but it's turned off, and as holdenvtman1123 said it only happens when you're in drive mode though, not neutral or park.

hopefully its not a bcm on the way out cos they're not cheap and you'll need 2 new key fobs (the black part).

Yeah, I heard they're quite a rip! The car itself only came out of warranty June last year, bloody thing isn't even four years old yet. Went to extend the factory warranty on it but they said they couldn't due to them changing who that's provided with (or some bs) at the time I rang. Only had a day left at that stage LOL. I might be able to argue the toss and be a bit persuasive

Thanks for the input all, I'll see if anyone else has anything to add also!

[colgf]

Sorry to destroy your day but I think you do have a BCM problem. I heard of a VZ that did the same wiper/lights activity in a mates garage one morning, was a failed BCM. Replaced under warranty though. Methinks GMH have a known problem with certain batch of VZ BCM's & if you have to buy one , see if you can get reimbursed by writing a letter to GMH citing many previous incidences of these failing....

[MySV6]

Perhaps a sign of an impending death of a BCM..?

More likely that you have been getting your car serviced by a Toyota dealer.

1. Open customers car
2. Spin wheen to find out what errors the car has to be programmed with
3. Sign if its not faulty brakes & cruise control as they are fun
4. Program with random fault
5. Smile when returning customers car

[RIPFPV]

Dunno mate holden dealerships don't service very well either, jsut the same better to f*** it youself
than have some yuppy 16 yr old kid f*** it for you and then flip you the bill, better to take the time to sort it yourself than fork out hundreds for half a service and a tire shine.

[svsex]

Hi all,

Had some fun with my VZ last night and this morning. Funny story actually.

Was at a friends house last night - it's raining up in QLD, and when we went to leave his house (only an hour or so later) my windscreen wipers and lights were back on! Even though they were clearly off when I went in to his house (open door, lock car) >.>

That wasn't a biggy though as the car started. Don't know how long they'd been on for though.

This mornings incident was much more amusing (and rage inducing, may I add). I live on acreage, and had to get out of the car in the pouring rain to open the gate.

As we all know, Commodore doors are heavy and are prone to closing themselves automatically when you get out of your car.

Fair enough, that's not usually a problem - except this morning this happened, and then I heard that distinctive "click" as the bastard locked the doors when the door closed! All of them!!!

So here's me standing in the pissing down rain on my way to work, wanting to kick my car very very hard. I ran back inside (luckily someone was home to let me back in to get my spare key), unlocked it through the key hole and away I went.

Needless to say, I wasn't very impressed, but it made a funny story when I got in to work this morning.

Anyway, on to the serious side of this - what the bloody heck could have caused these "ghosts"..? Perhaps a sign of an impending death of a BCM..?

Cheers

the wipers and lights could have been caused by a dogey earth somewhere, talked to aauto sparky and he said that a faulty earth can make the computters relays and so on play up. hopethis helps

[gslrallysport]

Interesting! I'll investigate. Was there visible damage (melted, etc)? I'll see if I can see anything weird.... Don't want to take the sucker to Holden because I know I'll get ripped the second I walk in the door.

Just get a good auto ellecy... Your Holden dealer will do exactly the same thing, but add their margin on top....

There was very slight visible damage. Basically because all the accessories work of the same relay separate to the key (which is why you can turn the radio on without the key in) it only took the slightly earth leak to stop all the accessories turning off... A decent auto ellecy should find the fault in under an hour...

[boofis]

Just get a good auto ellecy... Your Holden dealer will do exactly the same thing, but add their margin on top....

There was very slight visible damage. Basically because all the accessories work of the same relay separate to the key (which is why you can turn the radio on without the key in) it only took the slightly earth leak to stop all the accessories turning off... A decent auto ellecy should find the fault in under an hour...

Thanks mate! Appreciated. It hasn't done anything "weird" since this incident, but I might pop into an autoelectrician and get them to have a sticky.

Thanks everyone else for your contributions too