1997 Buick Regal Owner's Manual - Page 84

The ProgrammableAutomatic Power Door Locks will be in operating Mode 3 when your vehicle is shipped from the factory. Disconnecting the vehicle battery for up to a year will not change the programmed mode of the Programmable Automatic Power Door Locks. You have three actions possible once Delayed Locking is activated: 1. Cancel the Delayed Locking by pressing the unlock switch or by fully inserting the key in the ignition. Delayed Locking Delayed Locking allows the doors to be locked while passengers are exiting the vehicle. This feature also provides a brief time period after all the doors are closed, but before the doors are locked, in which the doors may be reopened. Delayed Locking is user programmable for the enabling or disabling of the function. Delayed Locking is activated when a door lock switch is pressed while the key is not in the vehicle's ignition, and a door is open. The door switch may be the lock lock switch on the door or onthe remote keyless entry transmitter (see "Remote Keyless Entry" later in this section for more details). The doors do not lock when the lock switch is pressed, but instead, three chimes are heard. These chimes indicate that the Delayed Locking function has been activated. 2. Override the Delayed Locking feature and lock the doors immediately by pressing the lock switch a second time. 3. Let the Delayed Locking function complete the locking of the vehicle. If you wish to let the Delayed Locking function complete the locking of the vehicle, no additional action is required. The Delayed Locking function will lock the doors automatically after all the doors have been closed for a period of five seconds. During this five second period, any door may be reopened, at which time the three possible actions shown above areagain available. You may also customize your vehicle to activate the Delayed Locking function as described above, or you may choose to completely disable the function at all times. If disabled, the power door locks will activate immediately when a power door lock switch is pressed. The enabled/disabled state of the Delayed Locking function will be toggled when you perform the following sequence with the doors closedand the ignition key in the RUN position: