# Is it impossible to lock some cars without the horn honking sound? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 28, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907 "2014-01-28T00:23:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2014, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907/61 "2014-02-02T20:57:19Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > That won’t work on my 2013 Accord. If you try, all the doors will lock except the driver’s side door. This car really goes out of it’s way to make sure you can’t lock the (smart) key inside the car. You can use that button if the doors are shut to lock yourself in, but you have to use the key fob or the little button on the door handle to lock the doors when you get out. ::Adds the Accord to my list of cars _not_ to consider the next time I buy a car.:: Okay, it’s not really a deal-breaker, necessarily, but with all the different policies the different cars have, with respect to locking and unlocking and beeping and honking and stuff, I’m starting to get paranoid about the petty annoyances I could find myself stuck with the next time I buy a car, if I’m not careful. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907/62 "2014-02-03T23:12:08Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > That won’t work on my 2013 Accord. If you try, all the doors will lock except the driver’s side door. This car really goes out of it’s way to make sure you can’t lock the (smart) key inside the car. You can use that button if the doors are shut to lock yourself in, but you have to use the key fob or the little button on the door handle to lock the doors when you get out. Are you sure the driver’s door actually doesn’t lock if you hit the button when the door is open, or is it that the door unlocks when you close it? That’s the way Hondas have worked since forever. The way to get around it was that if you held the door handle open while you shut the door it wouldn’t unlock. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907/63 "2014-02-04T00:45:22Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > ::Adds the Accord to my list of cars _not_ to consider the next time I buy a car.:: > > Okay, it’s not really a deal-breaker, necessarily, but with all the different policies the different cars have, with respect to locking and unlocking and beeping and honking and stuff, I’m starting to get paranoid about the petty annoyances I could find myself stuck with the next time I buy a car, if I’m not careful. What part of what I said makes you not want to buy it. The way the lock button works, the fact that it’s set up so that you can’t lock the keys on it? I think that’s pretty nice. Also, my car beeps when I lock it. I think I can change it to honk, but the default was beep which was fine with me. I don’t care which way it was, I just like the confirmation. > [@GreasyJack](#): > > Are you sure the driver’s door actually doesn’t lock if you hit the button when the door is open, or is it that the door unlocks when you close it? That’s the way Hondas have worked since forever. The way to get around it was that if you held the door handle open while you shut the door it wouldn’t unlock. I’m 99% sure that if you push the lock button with the door open the driver side door will not lock (or it will lock but will immediately unlock) but I’ll check the next time I go out to my car. What you said may be how they worked ‘forever’ but smart keys are new. It has a sensor that detects when the key is inside the car and that plays into the locking system as well so maybe they made some changes. Like I said, I’ll check the next time I walk out to my car and report back in a little while. You also can’t close the trunk if the key is in it, you can try, but the trunk will pop right back open. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907/64 "2014-02-04T02:13:01Z")
Just checked my car. If you push the lock button on the inside it does in fact lock the doors and then unlock them (or maybe just the one, I wasn’t paying attention) when you close the door. However, if I leave the smart key away from the car, the indoor lock button acts like a ‘normal’ lock button. The doors lock and stay locked. This is meant to prevent you from locking the key in the car. ---
**Author:** ![Hannah4321](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f14d63/32.png) [@Hannah4321](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hannah4321)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907/65 "2015-07-17T18:30:50Z")
My horn never beeps when I lock my car unless it’s VERY hot out. Why is that??? I have a 2008 mazda3 ---
**Author:** ![urfcopwae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/58f4c7/32.png) [@urfcopwae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/urfcopwae)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2015, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907/66 "2015-09-15T02:02:35Z")
Pressing the fob button once locks all doors and activates the alarm on Honda vehicles. There’s no reason to press it again and make the car honk unless you can’t hear the doors lock or see the lights blink the first time, or you want the whole neighborhood to know that your car has an alarm. ---
**Author:** ![Trucker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecae2f/32.png) [@Trucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trucker)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907/67 "2015-10-14T13:41:32Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > …the horn chirps to signify the alarm is enabled. > [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > …the horn won’t beep… > [@Omar\_Little](#): > > …no horn is beeped. > [@pravnik](#): > > …the horn chirping… > [@Learjeff](#): > > …My 2000 Chrysler minivan woofs a bit using the horn… > [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > …the ‘beeping’ car lock/alarm sound. > [@WhyNot](#): > > Using the keyfob (BEEP!BEEP!) was mandatory to lock or unlock the car with a (BEEP!BEEP!)… > [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > …the lock chirp… > [@SeaDragonTattoo](#): > > …some kind of alarm warning that emits 5 short, rapid beeps… > > …that one, single little ‘mep’… Can we all agree that in this thread, horns honk? That they do not beep or chirp or woof? Let’s not get semantic and say “But it’s a high-pitched horn that beeps”, or “Woof is phonetically accurate”, because that doesn’t help us communicate effectively about this paticular topic. Plus, only an idiot would make a “Beep If You’re Horny” bumpersticker. > [@kanicbird](#): > > …the chirp, then another press gives a short ‘beep’ (the kind that the OP does not like… > [@pulykamell](#): > > …my car doesn’t automatically honk when you lock it, either. It takes two clicks for it to beep and confirm that it is locked. The first click locks it… > [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Yeah, but when I said ‘beeping’ I meant either. My '04 Pathfinder doesn’t chirp, it honks the horn briefly. But it’s so short, a fraction of second… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907/68 "2015-10-14T13:47:22Z")
> [@Trucker](#): > > Can we all agree that in this thread, horns honk? That they do not beep or chirp or woof? Let’s not get semantic and say “But it’s a high-pitched horn that beeps”, or “Woof is phonetically accurate”, because that doesn’t help us communicate effectively about this paticular topic. > > Plus, only an idiot would make a “Beep If You’re Horny” bumpersticker. > > :smack: No, not really. Because, with the cars I was writing of, and many others I’ve heard, it _wasn’t_ the horn, and it wasn’t a honk. It was a double beep, higher pitched than the horn that honked when you pressed the horn button. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-impossible-to-lock-some-cars-without-the-horn-honking-sound/679907.md?page=3)