2003 Buick Century Owner's Manual - Page 78

Delayed Locking Delayed locking allows the doors to be locked while the passengers are exiting the vehicle. This feature also allows a brief time period for you to re-enter the vehicle after the doors have beenclosed and locked. Delayed locking is user programmable for enabling or disabling the feature. 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 lockswitch may beeither the lock switch on the door or on the remote keyless entry transmitter. See "Remote Keyless Entry System Operation" earlierin this section for more details. The doors do notlock when the lock switch is pressed, but instead, three chimes areheard. These chimes indicate that thedelayed locking function has beenactivated. If you wish to let the delayed locking feature complete the locking of the vehicle, no additional action is required. The delayed locking feature 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 are again available. You may also customize your vehicle to activate the delayed locking feature as described previously, or you may choose to completely disable the feature 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 feature will be toggled when you perform the following sequence: 1. Close the doors. 2. Move the ignition key to the RUN position. You have three actions possible once delayed locking is activated: 0 3. Apply your regular brakes. 4. Press and hold the power door unlock switch. While hn!rJIng the clmr L!"!C)Ck'S\!!i!Ch, mn'E fhP shift !PF3out of and back into PARK (P). Cancel the delayed locking by pressing the unlock switch or bv fullv insertinq the kev in the iqnition. Override the delayed locking feature and lock the doors immediately by pressing the lock switch a second time. 0 Let the delayed locking feature complete the locking of the vehicle; 2-7