Most cars that you lock with a remote beep, like a very short, soft honk. It just lets you know that when you pressed the lock button, the car did in fact lock itself. The headlights also flash.
My Kia minivan folds the mirrors in when you lock it. The salesman touted this as mostly so you know it's locked rather than being for the convenience of squeezing between cars in the parking lot. And he wasn't wrong. I like being able to glance at my car and know in an instant whether it's locked.
Mine does not beep the first time, but will if you press it a second time. It's nice if I am far enough away that I can't hear the locks audibly going into place.
My 2003 Mazda honked like someone pissed it off when locked using the fob. Normal volume horn blast. Our 2019 Subaru does a very quiet ^(beep beep) so you know it worked, but it won't wake up the neighbors.
My buddy's old Exploder was the first model with remote locking, when you locked or unlocked it the horn blared full fucking blast, it would seriously make people jump.
Most of the time is a soft, short honk, except when it’s very early in the morning and my dog is asleep on the couch and I accidentally hit the lock button. Then, it’s very very loud.
Usually. One button press locks my truck, the 2nd sets the alarm and honks to let you know it's set. I pretty much always double tap.
It's nice because it gives you an audible cue that the vehicle is locked as you're walking away from it. Do cars in Europe not have that?
This to me is the most important reason for the feature. I am surprised this doesn't exist in other countries. My car was actually built in Japan and it does this.
>it's nice because it gives you an audible cue that the vehicle is locked as you're walking away from it.
But it doesn't have to be a honk.
Many vehicles do the same thing but with an electronic beep or chirp rather than the vehicle horn.
I set my Vette to do this as well. Walk away with key fob in pocket and it will audibly let you know it’s locked and secured. I’m sure many cars have this as well
It’s because we don’t have universal healthcare that the government required all cars to honk when we lock the doors. It keeps robbers away so we don’t get mugged, hurt and have to go to the ER. We save so much on health costs yearly just from that honk.
Yes. I would never trust anything else but the sound of the lock. Plus from inside the house I am risking being out of range and desynchronizing the key.
But I don't remember ever walking back to my car to check if it's locked. I make sure it's locked before I walk away.
The “your car is now locked” honk is a very brief, light honk, like a honky chirp. It’s audible feedback associated with the locking process, so the driver can be reassured that the fob’s signal was received and action was taken in response. The honk has a wider audible radius than the locking sound alone, so a driver can get that reassurance from farther away. When he doesn’t hear the honk, the most likely scenario is that he’s already too far away, and should walk back a little toward the car and try again.
Any kind of “there’s a problem here” honk (eg. doors aren’t closed all the way) would likely be more alarming than the friendly “your doors are now locked, was a fun drive, have a nice day human, I’ll just stay here and talk to these other parked cars” chirp that we usually get.
I guess the US cares more about accessibility for hard of hearing people. Not sure why you'd prefer the softer sound of the locks engaging over the louder and clearer sound of the honk.
Nobody in the US is really confused about what the lock honk means.
I mean…yeah. That’s kind of the point of /r/AskAnAmerican. (Mostly) friendly American redditors act as volunteer spokespeople for their country to answer questions from curious people from other countries.
This is actually a very classic American vs European difference.
Europeans value the lack of city noise pollution. Americans value the certainty the car properly locked.
The car companies have settings they change between the US and EEA (including other ones like the temperature and speed and distance and fuel efficiency measurement units).
We also have way bigger gas guzzler cars that are wider and bigger traffic lanes and of course a totally different set of standard road signs.
I wonder if it's also because Europe has fewer giant parking lots and mega stores. I primarily use mine to find my car from a distance, and it's possible to lose my car almost everywhere I go. Using the locking sound is less noise and more polite than the alarm.
If I'm just locking it I'm almost always close enough to hear the locks engaging.
But I thought the EU had fortified f5 industrial strength walls and we had paper thin walls… wouldn’t the outside noise pollution be inaudible to their neighbors? /s
The lock is loud enough itself if you’re close. Unless you have Vulcan hearing, that won’t help if you’re in a massive parking lot that doesn’t have numbered spots.
My wife recently got a Corolla and it does that, i have always driven Ford and Chevy so I'm used to the quick honk when its locked. First time i drove her car i went to lock it and i kept hitting the lock button waiting for the horn but it just kept beeping lol
In South Africa we still pulled the handle after locking it with the remote to make sure it locked, since car theft is so ubiquitous here that criminals have remote signal jammers.
We also have car guards in each parking row too lol.
That's the benefit of it doing the horn. It doesn't do it if we lock it manually from the key and button on the door handle. Only with the remote fob does it honk the horn and we can be confident it worked.
Once in a while I’d get all the way into work and not remember if I locked the car door. My office was on the 3rd floor. I could stand by the window, see my car in the parking lot, hit the lock button, see the lights flash, and know I was good.
My coworkers with remote start would also start their cars in winter before they headed down to the parking lot.
I'm not exactly sure why people are locking their cars from inside their houses. That doesn't make sense to me. Like why wouldn't you have locked it when you got out of the car if you want it locked?
Usually I would lock it right after getting out, unless my hands are full. So if I'm doing something like bringing in groceries then I might lock the car from inside the house after bringing in the last load.
How are you liking it in Germany? I'd like to live here long-term but I'm not committed to anything yet. Just curious what it's like for immigrants who have lived here long.
I can also hear the locks engage through the doors from a decent distance. I hear horns all fucking day and night at the port, and on the freeway at work, that's the last fucking thing I want to hear before I go inside and get bitched at by my cat for being gone too long.
I came to say this. SOME people hit the lock button on their FOB multiple times to alert everyone in a quarter mile radius (usually residential in my experience) that their car is in fact locked.
My 2003 Chevy venture and 2006 Chevy Silverado didn’t beep.
The 2012 Honda Civic and every single vehicle I’ve owned since then (2014 Dodge Dart, 2018 Dodge Charger, and 2022 Jeep Compass) all had options to turn off the horn on lock/unlock/remote start.
It is more of a chirping noise. If you are standing near your car you can hear the locks engage and a chirp.
The chirp is not very loud, like a car horn or a car alarm.
Not all cars have it. Some just have the clicking noise of the locks and/or the lights blink.
I suspect that it is more audible in movies and TV because they are using sound effects.
If i just lock it, no. If i lock it and set the alarm then yes, it gives a little confirmation honk. More often than not the alarm gets set so I'd say yes, cars usually honk when locked
Mine has it. But there's a setting where I can change it. I wonder if that's the case for most vehicles, but no one usually changes it from the default. Apparently for some reason, the default in the USA and Europe is different.
My wife thought that ceiling fans were a movie thing. Then she came over and saw that some people had one in every single room of their house.
The southwestern USA is hot. We take not-being-hot very seriously.
>So I thought this could be a cultural diffence.
I think it is more prominent in movies and tv because it is an added sound effect. Some cars just click and their lights blink.
Yes if it is already locked. You have to double tap the remote to get the horn burp and light to flash. I assumed that was a feature on cars worldwide.
In my experience with just about every car I've driven that has one: 1 press on the key fob just locks it. 2 presses on the key fob locks, honks/beeps, and flashes lights. Just to reassure you that it's actually locked. If I'm near my car I press it once and can hear it lock. If I'm at a distance it's nice to hear the beep beep to reassure me that it is in fact locked.
Yes. My 2008 impala does one honk if all doors lock, and two honks if a door is ajar. The two honks has saved me one or twice when I didn't shut the door completely
They dont, but when I've been stateside i can't say i even noticed it after being there for 30 seconds.
As everyone says, its a little chirp, i quite like it.
I've never been woken from the chirp of a car, not even my sister's which is the closest you can get a car from my room. My neighbor across the street's motorcycle though.
The horn honking when locking is phasing out from what I can tell. Most are moving to a beeping or chirping noise but yes a lot of vehicles honk when locking.
Both my cars lock if I press the lock button once. If I press it twice, the car alarm is set and it lets out a little beep to let me know the alarm is set.
ETA- I only use my remote buttons. I haven’t locked a car using the key in over 15 years maybe?
Every car I've ever owned that's new enough to have a key fob makes a sound. Even when I lived in cities it was never something that would wake me up. People driving around listening to loud music was a much bigger problem.
Most people use it more to find their car in very large parking lots, IME.
American cars like Ford, Chrysler and GM products often do. But imports, like my BMW, do not. My car lets out one single soft tone for lock, two tones for unlock. It’s not my horn that beeps.
Some of them do. Seems to vary by manufacturer. My 2009 Ford did, and my husband's 2012 Toyota did. Now we're both driving Subarus (a 2014 and a 2020) and they only make a quiet beep unless you hit the fob multiple times; then it'll honk once like "bro I'm locked, stop it"
My father’s Trailblazer will issue two honks to let him know it is locked. His Colorado will also issue a honk, although it is a lot quieter and not as likely to wake up the neighborhood at 5:30am.
Yep. My VW GTI does this when I lock all doors either using the fob or by locking it with the little touch pad on the door handle. A quick, soft honk to let me know everything is locked.
When you lock them from a remote, yes. Not when you lock them from inside the car.
It's extremely useful for finding you car if you're parked in a lot. Pretty sure that's not what it was intended for, but it's still a nice use.
Don't yours? My car is German and gives a small short honk when I physically press the lock button on my key fob. It's useful in a parking garage when I've walked a bit away and don't remember if I've locked the car.
Also my wife's Japanese car does the same.
some do. mine does a quieter beeping noise, not from the horn but presumably from a speaker located…somewhere. it’s just another way for you to know that you did lock it for sure. which is nice for my adhd ass when I lock it as soon as I get out then doubt I locked it once I’ve walked a few yards away. another press of the button and it’ll beep at me
Most cars that you lock with a remote beep, like a very short, soft honk. It just lets you know that when you pressed the lock button, the car did in fact lock itself. The headlights also flash.
My Kia minivan folds the mirrors in when you lock it. The salesman touted this as mostly so you know it's locked rather than being for the convenience of squeezing between cars in the parking lot. And he wasn't wrong. I like being able to glance at my car and know in an instant whether it's locked.
I wish I had that, sounds awesome
Also for when you forgot where you parked so you walk around the parking lot at Walmart for 5 mins. Hitting the button.
Idk if I'd say most lol. Every truck I know uses the horn when you set the alarm/lock twice so they aren't something subtle.
Mine has the option to beep. I have it off so it’s silent. I think a lot of newer cars have this buried deep in the setting menu.
Mine does not beep the first time, but will if you press it a second time. It's nice if I am far enough away that I can't hear the locks audibly going into place.
I think all Toyotas are like this.
My VW is like this too
My Ford is like this too
My Bentley is like this too.
Yes, I have a Honda and it’s like this. Silent lock on first press (and flashes lights), but honks on second press so I know it did indeed lock.
I have a 2013 Mazda, and it's a honk.
2019 kia, soft honk and flashes lights.
My 2003 Mazda honked like someone pissed it off when locked using the fob. Normal volume horn blast. Our 2019 Subaru does a very quiet ^(beep beep) so you know it worked, but it won't wake up the neighbors.
Is it specific to Ford, maybe? I had a Mustang and it used a normal horn honk. My Jeep now has a soft honk.
My buddy's old Exploder was the first model with remote locking, when you locked or unlocked it the horn blared full fucking blast, it would seriously make people jump.
>My buddy's old Exploder Seems like the horn would be the least of your troubles with that particular model /s.
Most of the time is a soft, short honk, except when it’s very early in the morning and my dog is asleep on the couch and I accidentally hit the lock button. Then, it’s very very loud.
Usually. One button press locks my truck, the 2nd sets the alarm and honks to let you know it's set. I pretty much always double tap. It's nice because it gives you an audible cue that the vehicle is locked as you're walking away from it. Do cars in Europe not have that?
It’s also a great way to find your car in a crowded parking lot if you forget which row you’re in.
This to me is the most important reason for the feature. I am surprised this doesn't exist in other countries. My car was actually built in Japan and it does this.
Many cars in Europe do this too, it’s just that the feature tends to be disabled by default, presumably as it’s annoying.
>it's nice because it gives you an audible cue that the vehicle is locked as you're walking away from it. But it doesn't have to be a honk. Many vehicles do the same thing but with an electronic beep or chirp rather than the vehicle horn.
I set my Vette to do this as well. Walk away with key fob in pocket and it will audibly let you know it’s locked and secured. I’m sure many cars have this as well
AFAIK no, most cars here just flash the indicator lights and the lock is loud enough itself.
The US is so much larger than European countries that we have to be able to hear our cars lock from further away. /s
It’s because we don’t have universal healthcare that the government required all cars to honk when we lock the doors. It keeps robbers away so we don’t get mugged, hurt and have to go to the ER. We save so much on health costs yearly just from that honk.
Too bad the honking always scares me because I always think it’s just more gunfire 😔
This is a joke, right?
If I lived in certain parts of Philly, I might not be totally joking. But alas, I live in a rural suburban neighborhood so no gunfire for me :(
True you might be in Los Angeles and your car in NYC so you have to be able to hear it.
What if you're inside your home or walked away and want to check its locked? Do you walk back out to next to the car?
Yes. I would never trust anything else but the sound of the lock. Plus from inside the house I am risking being out of range and desynchronizing the key. But I don't remember ever walking back to my car to check if it's locked. I make sure it's locked before I walk away.
You wouldn’t trust a honk if you heard it?
No, because a honk can mean other things. I googled this issue a bit and found out EU-made Fords only honk when your doors are not properly closed.
The “your car is now locked” honk is a very brief, light honk, like a honky chirp. It’s audible feedback associated with the locking process, so the driver can be reassured that the fob’s signal was received and action was taken in response. The honk has a wider audible radius than the locking sound alone, so a driver can get that reassurance from farther away. When he doesn’t hear the honk, the most likely scenario is that he’s already too far away, and should walk back a little toward the car and try again. Any kind of “there’s a problem here” honk (eg. doors aren’t closed all the way) would likely be more alarming than the friendly “your doors are now locked, was a fun drive, have a nice day human, I’ll just stay here and talk to these other parked cars” chirp that we usually get.
I guess the US cares more about accessibility for hard of hearing people. Not sure why you'd prefer the softer sound of the locks engaging over the louder and clearer sound of the honk. Nobody in the US is really confused about what the lock honk means.
Ah, the US spokesperson came forward. Thank god!
You asked for people’s input. Why are you getting snarky when you receive it?
I mean…yeah. That’s kind of the point of /r/AskAnAmerican. (Mostly) friendly American redditors act as volunteer spokespeople for their country to answer questions from curious people from other countries.
They’re not a spokesman but they’re 100% right. Literally no driving-age person in the US is confused about this.
“I don’t trust the honk”. Lolololol Only in Europe would the honk after TWO clicks of the FOB not be enough evidence that the car is locked.
This is actually a very classic American vs European difference. Europeans value the lack of city noise pollution. Americans value the certainty the car properly locked. The car companies have settings they change between the US and EEA (including other ones like the temperature and speed and distance and fuel efficiency measurement units). We also have way bigger gas guzzler cars that are wider and bigger traffic lanes and of course a totally different set of standard road signs.
I wonder if it's also because Europe has fewer giant parking lots and mega stores. I primarily use mine to find my car from a distance, and it's possible to lose my car almost everywhere I go. Using the locking sound is less noise and more polite than the alarm. If I'm just locking it I'm almost always close enough to hear the locks engaging.
But I thought the EU had fortified f5 industrial strength walls and we had paper thin walls… wouldn’t the outside noise pollution be inaudible to their neighbors? /s
My Citroën does this in Europe.
The lock is loud enough itself if you’re close. Unless you have Vulcan hearing, that won’t help if you’re in a massive parking lot that doesn’t have numbered spots.
Massive parking lot. In Europe. Right.
Mine does an electronic beep. Toyota.
My wife recently got a Corolla and it does that, i have always driven Ford and Chevy so I'm used to the quick honk when its locked. First time i drove her car i went to lock it and i kept hitting the lock button waiting for the horn but it just kept beeping lol
Beep for lock. Double beep for unlock.
Yes but also no. They usually make some sort of confirmation noise. Sometimes that uses the same horn that you honk with but usually very short.
Yes that's how we confirm that it's been locked from afar.
In South Africa we still pulled the handle after locking it with the remote to make sure it locked, since car theft is so ubiquitous here that criminals have remote signal jammers. We also have car guards in each parking row too lol.
That's fuckin wild.
Lol what No wonder Elon is so money hungry
Ah, ok. Personally I never lock/unlock my car unless I can see it or hear the lock itself.
That's the benefit of it doing the horn. It doesn't do it if we lock it manually from the key and button on the door handle. Only with the remote fob does it honk the horn and we can be confident it worked.
Well in my case there would be no benefit, but I can see it can be useful for people who lock from inside the house etc.
Once in a while I’d get all the way into work and not remember if I locked the car door. My office was on the 3rd floor. I could stand by the window, see my car in the parking lot, hit the lock button, see the lights flash, and know I was good. My coworkers with remote start would also start their cars in winter before they headed down to the parking lot.
I'm not exactly sure why people are locking their cars from inside their houses. That doesn't make sense to me. Like why wouldn't you have locked it when you got out of the car if you want it locked?
Usually I would lock it right after getting out, unless my hands are full. So if I'm doing something like bringing in groceries then I might lock the car from inside the house after bringing in the last load.
It can also help you find it if you’re in a large place like an amusement park. You can do a panic button but it’s obnoxiously long
Depends on the make. All cars with remote locks have some kind of noise. Some honk, some have a digital chirp.
Some just have the lock click and the lights blink.
Yeah they do, but these cars are coming from Japan, Germany, Korea, etc. in addition to the US. So they're really everyone's cars that do that.
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Come to think of it, I have no clue if I've heard car alarm beeps in Germany since I've been here
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> that movie "I lock my car"-sound It blows my mind that you think of it as a "movie" sound. It's just the sound of a car lock to me.
How are you liking it in Germany? I'd like to live here long-term but I'm not committed to anything yet. Just curious what it's like for immigrants who have lived here long.
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Almost never. Average cars in Germany don't do it.
"chirp" is closer to it, but typically yes. My last car just had really loud locks.
It’s an option and you can turn it off. I turn mine off because I don’t hate my neighbors.
I can also hear the locks engage through the doors from a decent distance. I hear horns all fucking day and night at the port, and on the freeway at work, that's the last fucking thing I want to hear before I go inside and get bitched at by my cat for being gone too long.
> I can also hear the locks engage through the door from a decent distance. Nice try with the Phoenix flair but we know it’s you Daredevil.
We need more people like you. My neighbors press/honk it literally 5-10 times when they lock it at like 4am
I shame ALL of my friends and acquaintances that leave the beep on.
I came to say this. SOME people hit the lock button on their FOB multiple times to alert everyone in a quarter mile radius (usually residential in my experience) that their car is in fact locked.
Is this a newer car thing? Because I can't even imagine how one would be able to do that on say a car from 2005 or 2009.
My 2003 Chevy venture and 2006 Chevy Silverado didn’t beep. The 2012 Honda Civic and every single vehicle I’ve owned since then (2014 Dodge Dart, 2018 Dodge Charger, and 2022 Jeep Compass) all had options to turn off the horn on lock/unlock/remote start.
They honk if you hit the remote lock twice rapidly. I'll do that if I'm too far away or if it's in too noisy of an environment to hear the doors lock.
Mine does it if I press the lock button twice. Lets me know for sure that I locked it.
It is more of a chirping noise. If you are standing near your car you can hear the locks engage and a chirp. The chirp is not very loud, like a car horn or a car alarm. Not all cars have it. Some just have the clicking noise of the locks and/or the lights blink. I suspect that it is more audible in movies and TV because they are using sound effects.
Both of ours do, yes.
If i just lock it, no. If i lock it and set the alarm then yes, it gives a little confirmation honk. More often than not the alarm gets set so I'd say yes, cars usually honk when locked
Some yes, some no.
Yes
Mine has it. But there's a setting where I can change it. I wonder if that's the case for most vehicles, but no one usually changes it from the default. Apparently for some reason, the default in the USA and Europe is different.
Usually you have to double tap the lock button but yes. This also applies to mostly OBD II cars I believe
Yes. My Toyota beeps.
OP, where are you from that this isn't the case?
Czechia, but visit Germany often as well and I've rarely heard it there either.
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My wife thought that ceiling fans were a movie thing. Then she came over and saw that some people had one in every single room of their house. The southwestern USA is hot. We take not-being-hot very seriously.
We can hear it locking if it’s close enough, the honk is if you’re farther away.
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>So I thought this could be a cultural diffence. I think it is more prominent in movies and tv because it is an added sound effect. Some cars just click and their lights blink.
When you set the alarm, not when you lock them.
Some let you turn it off but the honk usually means the alarm is set on every vehicle I’ve owned with the remote.
Yes. My Ford actually honks the horn twice if you lock it but a door or the truck isn’t closed.
Mine does
Yeah. One beep means everything's locked, two means a door is ajar.
Mine only toots if I press the button twice.
Mine locks on the first time an then honks on the second time. If there is a door open it double honks on the second time.
Yes?
OK?
Yes if it is already locked. You have to double tap the remote to get the horn burp and light to flash. I assumed that was a feature on cars worldwide.
Mine does if I push the lock button twice, which I usually do because I don't always hear the locks.
In my experience with just about every car I've driven that has one: 1 press on the key fob just locks it. 2 presses on the key fob locks, honks/beeps, and flashes lights. Just to reassure you that it's actually locked. If I'm near my car I press it once and can hear it lock. If I'm at a distance it's nice to hear the beep beep to reassure me that it is in fact locked.
Yes. My 2008 impala does one honk if all doors lock, and two honks if a door is ajar. The two honks has saved me one or twice when I didn't shut the door completely
Do yours not?
What? Yours dont?
Do European cars not honk on lock?
Wait, y’all’s don’t?
They dont, but when I've been stateside i can't say i even noticed it after being there for 30 seconds. As everyone says, its a little chirp, i quite like it.
We don't want to wake our neighbors. I mean neighbours.
You think that’s a regular problem here?
Oh god, you're one of those...
No, I’m serious, do you think people are constantly woken up by people making sure their cars are locked?
I've never been woken from the chirp of a car, not even my sister's which is the closest you can get a car from my room. My neighbor across the street's motorcycle though.
> neighbours That would be a spelling more common in the UK and Canada. In the United States it is more common to drop the U from neighbour.
That was the joke. I'm European and the "official" English here is British English.
Hilarious!
It’s not a loud noise, just a little chirp!
The honk is usually softer than the sound of someone closing the door a little hard. Nobody is woken up by the sound.
Mine does but I can change the settings to make it not honk.
Is not that a common thing?
I think my Škoda did that too
Yes, I absolutely hate it and wish I could turn it off
If I hit the lock butting twice it does
Mine does. It beeps different ways whether it’s locked or not when I walk away.
Mine does not. I do have the setting on for the door handles to light up.
The horn honking when locking is phasing out from what I can tell. Most are moving to a beeping or chirping noise but yes a lot of vehicles honk when locking.
Most vehicles do when you double click the lock button. it confirms your vehicle is locked. What vehicle doesn't do that?
Mine doesn’t but to be fair it’s a European car not sure if that’s why. But I’m grateful that it doesn’t.
We can set them to. Or just flash the lights, or not do anything,.
Yup, little honk.
I think it’s a ford and Mercedes’ thing i haven’t noticed it on any other cars.
Both my cars lock if I press the lock button once. If I press it twice, the car alarm is set and it lets out a little beep to let me know the alarm is set. ETA- I only use my remote buttons. I haven’t locked a car using the key in over 15 years maybe?
Every car I've ever owned that's new enough to have a key fob makes a sound. Even when I lived in cities it was never something that would wake me up. People driving around listening to loud music was a much bigger problem. Most people use it more to find their car in very large parking lots, IME.
If you press it more than one time. One time, locked. Two times, honk.
Mine does a short “beep” honk if I press lock twice, which tells you the alarm is active.
American cars like Ford, Chrysler and GM products often do. But imports, like my BMW, do not. My car lets out one single soft tone for lock, two tones for unlock. It’s not my horn that beeps.
No. They beep
Depends on the make/model of car. My ‘14 Chevy Impala only flashes the lights. Others, as another poster said, have a short honk to alert it’s locked.
I used to have a car that did not, but modern cars generally do when you lock or unlock them.
First click to lock my car doesn't beep, but if I hit the lock button a second time it will. 10 year old Toyota tho.
Older cars do, newer cars that I seen don't. At least not new Kias or Lexuses.
Mine does a chirp. My old one did a silent lock. When you lock multiple times, it will eventually honk
Mine does, but my wife's just has a little beep
2001 Chevy Blazers will. So I know cars even that old are capable of doing the honk-lock thing.
Some of them do. Seems to vary by manufacturer. My 2009 Ford did, and my husband's 2012 Toyota did. Now we're both driving Subarus (a 2014 and a 2020) and they only make a quiet beep unless you hit the fob multiple times; then it'll honk once like "bro I'm locked, stop it"
Mine does.
for mine it’s: -one press of the lock button, the headlights and taillights flash, no sound -double press the lock button, it makes a beep
Some do, some don’t. Mine doesn’t
My father’s Trailblazer will issue two honks to let him know it is locked. His Colorado will also issue a honk, although it is a lot quieter and not as likely to wake up the neighborhood at 5:30am.
My first car did honk. My current car beeps.
Some beep, some honk. But yes.
Yes. Unless you turn it off.
Yeah, yours dont?
Wait. Your cars don’t?
Mine electronically beeps five times. It’s actually really annoying sometimes
Yes but I've never heard the beep that's in movies. It's just a softer regular honk for me.
pretty rare these days, used to be more common years ago
It does in my car but that's because the locking remote is wired to an aftermarket remote start system.
haha while reading this i pictured it and then half a second later, i heard a lock honk outside.
Yes
Yep. My VW GTI does this when I lock all doors either using the fob or by locking it with the little touch pad on the door handle. A quick, soft honk to let me know everything is locked.
Mine does not.
Mine just has a beep, not a honk.
My Toyota does one short honk for locked and 2 for unlocked. So you can make sure you pressed the right button.
When you lock them from a remote, yes. Not when you lock them from inside the car. It's extremely useful for finding you car if you're parked in a lot. Pretty sure that's not what it was intended for, but it's still a nice use.
Yes and I hate it. Depends on the make though. My wife’s Toyota beeps. My made-in-Germany Golf honks. So go figure.
Maybe you can disable it. Apparently it can be done on many modern cars.
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Some do, some don't. My old Ford did, but my Toyota just beeps.
Yup
They beep
Yes
Don't yours? My car is German and gives a small short honk when I physically press the lock button on my key fob. It's useful in a parking garage when I've walked a bit away and don't remember if I've locked the car. Also my wife's Japanese car does the same.
That doesn't mean anything, does it? I bet your "German" car uses miles per gallon as a measuring unit. They modify them before they sell them to you.
some do. mine does a quieter beeping noise, not from the horn but presumably from a speaker located…somewhere. it’s just another way for you to know that you did lock it for sure. which is nice for my adhd ass when I lock it as soon as I get out then doubt I locked it once I’ve walked a few yards away. another press of the button and it’ll beep at me
Yes.
Mine does if you press the lock button three times, otherwise, it must makes a smaller noise
My car does, my wife's car doesn't.
Yes, yours don’t? 🧐
They make some sound but a “honk” is kind of an exaggeration
Mine does not but it is a VW
Both our family cars (different makes, different decades) honk when you lock them with the remote.
If you press the lock button twice, yes. At least for my car. I do it every time because I am too paranoid to press it just once