2003 Oldsmobile Alero Owner's Manual - Page 77

Power Door Locks With the power door locks, you can lock or unlock all of the doors on your vehicle using the driver's or front passenger's door lock switch. Press the bottom of the switch to lock all of the doors. Press the top of the switch to unlock all of the doors. If the lower part of the power door lock switch is pressed twice when leaving the vehicle, or the lock symbol button on the remote keyless entry transmitter is pressed, the doors will lock immediately. If the power door lock switch is pressed to unlock, the doors will not lock automatically. Delayed Locking This feature will allow the driver to delay the actual locking of the vehicle. This feature will not operate if the key is left in the ignition. See Lockout Protection on page2-71 later in this section. When the lower part of the driver's power door lock switch is pressed, with the key removed from the ignition and the driver's door open, three chimes will be heard. The doors will not lock. Seven seconds after the driver's door has been closed, all of the doors will lock and the parking lamps will flash. The horn will also chirp if the horn chirp feature is enabled. See "Programmable Horn Chirp" listed previously for more information. Programmable Automatic Door Locks Your vehicle has a feature that allows you to program your power door locks to automatically lock and unlock under certain conditions. You can program your vehicle to have all of the doors lock when you move your shift lever out of PARK (P) to REVERSE (R) if your vehicle has an automatic transaxle or when the vehicle speed is greater than 5 mph (8 km/h) if your vehicle has a manual transaxle. If someone needs to get out while the vehicle is running, have that person use the door lock. When the door is closed again, it will lock automatically when the vehicle reaches about 5 mph (8 km/h). You can also program all doors to automatically unlock when the shift lever is moved to PARK (P) on vehicles with an automatic transaxle or to REVERSE (R) on vehicles with a manual transaxle when the key is turned to OFF. If the driver opens another door before the seven seconds are up, the doors will not lock until seven seconds have elapsed after the last door is closed. 2-8