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Pea soup fog this a.m. - alarm sounded and electric windows opened fully. Is there a sensor that will trigger this action? For example if one were to drive into a lake!

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    16 hours ago, jape53 said:

    Pea soup fog this a.m. - alarm sounded and electric windows opened fully. Is there a sensor that will trigger this action? For example if one were to drive into a lake!

    That sounds freaky! I know a few years back, Jaguars has a sensor built into the rear bumper that if activated (supposedly in an accident), all the doors would unlock, so guess how most of them were stolen LOL

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    I think it probably happened the other way round.  The windows dropped via global opening, the doors relocked because you hadn't opened one and that then triggered the alarm as if someone had smashed a window.

    This happens more often than you'd think, sometimes the key button gets pressed in a pocket or handbag.  Other people swear the keys weren't pressable and it must have been a poltergeist...  

    All doors still unlock in the event of an impact detection, but not in the event of water detection.

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    On 11/7/2020 at 9:46 AM, TomsFocus said:

    I think it probably happened the other way round.  The windows dropped via global opening, the doors relocked because you hadn't opened one and that then triggered the alarm as if someone had smashed a window.

    This happens more often than you'd think, sometimes the key button gets pressed in a pocket or handbag.  Other people swear the keys weren't pressable and it must have been a poltergeist...  

    All doors still unlock in the event of an impact detection, but not in the event of water detection.

    Thanks for that. The doors remained closed - only the windows opened - keys were inaccessible at the time, not able to be accidentally operated . Global opening - not heard of that. Never had windows open without manual activation.

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    16 minutes ago, jape53 said:

     Global opening - not heard of that.

    Global opening is a feature that opens all 4 windows simultaneously when the 'unlock' button on your keyfob is continuously pressed.

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