Double horn honk

[PoCoBob]

Just reading through the thread about things you don't like about your car and the double horn honk came up a number of times. You can get rid of some of those by turning off the mislock feature in the settings. You don't need Forscan to change it. It still double honks if you leave the car running and walk away from it, but you can stop that by not shutting the door completely. I think the mislock comes from the factory turned on.

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[Vlad Soare]

It still double honks if you leave the car running and walk away from it

This is what most people refer to when they talk about the double honk. And this can only be disabled with ForScan (or an equivalent tool, like UCDS/IDS/etc.).
Indeed, it won't honk if you don't close the door, but more often than not you will forget, and you will close it involuntarily, out of force of habit.

The mislock feature means that if you try to lock the car, and one of the doors isn't properly closed, then the car will honk. Frankly, I find this feature useful. The honk may be annoying, but if the alternative is to leave the place thinking the car was locked, when in fact it wasn't, then I find the honk preferable.

 

[Zrussian13]

I love the mislock feature but hate the double honk when you walk away.

 

[PoCoBob]

This is what most people refer to when they talk about the double honk. And this can only be disabled with ForScan (or an equivalent tool, like UCDS/IDS/etc.).
Indeed, it won't honk if you don't close the door, but more often than not you will forget, and you will close it involuntarily, out of force of habit.

The mislock feature means that if you try to lock the car, and one of the doors isn't properly closed, then the car will honk. Frankly, I find this feature useful. The honk may be annoying, but if the alternative is to leave the place thinking the car was locked, when in fact it wasn't, then I find the honk preferable.

Funny, I am exactly opposite of that. The only time I ever leave the car running when I get out is to open the garage door. I have no problem remembering to not fully close the car door. But when I had the mislock turned on about 30% of the time I got in the car and closed the door the double honk would happen. My 2016 Edge did the same thing. I never figured out what caused it to honk because all I had done was open the door and get in, I had not tried to lock the door or start the car, just get in. Turning off the mislock fixed that and it'll always be a mystery to what the car was trying to warn me about.

 

[Vlad Soare]

But when I had the mislock turned on about 30% of the time I got in the car and closed the door the double honk would happen. My 2016 Edge did the same thing. I never figured out what caused it to honk because all I had done was open the door and get in, I had not tried to lock the door or start the car, just get in. Turning off the mislock fixed that and it'll always be a mystery to what the car was trying to warn me about.

That's really strange. That's not what the mislock is about. Mine only honks when I try to lock the car after not having closed one of the doors properly. It only happened to me once or twice, and I was glad it did, because otherwise I would have left without knowing that the car wasn't locked.
What you're describing seems very strange to me. I see no reason why it would honk when you just get in the car.

 

[PoCoBob]

It is weird, and I would have thought it was defective if the the Edge hadn't done the same thing. Personally I think these cars have way too many electronic options that need to be set differently depending on what region in the world the car is going to. I'm in Canada and you're in Romania, I doubt our standards are the same so what may be legal in your car may not be in mine. I doubt Ford could possibly test every combination of settings to make sure one doesn't interfere with another. But since I turned off the mislock the double honk has stopped so I'm happy.

 

[Rapid Red]

Just reading through the thread about things you don't like about your car and the double horn honk came up a number of times. You can get rid of some of those by turning off the mislock feature in the settings. You don't need Forscan to change it. It still double honks if you leave the car running and walk away from it, but you can stop that by not shutting the door completely. I think the mislock comes from the factory turned on.

Why leave the car running is my question.
sell me

 

[Mike-S550]

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