My kid manually locked my Mazda c-x5 while my purse was in the house (with the fob) and it locked us out while it was still running (was defrosting the windows)

Apparently we glitched the system and it’s not registering my car fob to unlock it now, so I need my car to die so it can reset and I can use my fob to get in.

  • We recently bought it and just found out we have no key in the fob. 🙃

  • It was NOT remote start, he pushed to start it.

I know remote start runs for like 15 min then it will turn off but I think I read after Idling for x amount of time it will auto shut off.

Is that true and for how long will it idle.

Thanks!

  • UKthailandExpat@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Use the age old trick of stuffing a potato into the exhaust, it will not do any damage to such a new car and blocking the exhaust will shut the engine down

      • UKthailandExpat@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        It seems from the down votes that others disagree or are jealous of my memory ;)

        the principle of blocking the exhaust to stop an engine is a well known in my local community and is used by using a foot clad in a flip flop to stop bikes where the key is missing