Help. Flat battery and key won’t open the door.

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Originally Posted by MacRob

I always thought you just pull the inside handle twice and it opens ...

Hi Rob,

That's central locking, as activated by the button on the centre console. "Superlocking", using the remote handset, disables the interior door handles; see Pete's post no. 14:

Originally Posted by patrolman pete

Dead locking is just extra security meaning that if a window was broken to gain access pulling the interior handles wouldn't open the car.

I prefer to observe MG Rover's term "superlocking" because the doors aren't deadlocked in the normal sense of the word, i.e. there is no bolt physically inserted into the door frame.

Simon

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Originally Posted by MacRob

Didn't think you could do that. I always thought you just pull the inside handle twice and it opens as deadlocking shuts down the motion sensor part of the alarm. I could be wrong though

I think the handbook says never deadlock the doors with anybody in the car as it becomes impossible to open the doors with the inside door handle.----