I was in my garage when it unlocked itself.
Jeep cherokee doors lock themselves.
This feature automatically locks your jeep s doors when the gearshift moves from park to drive when the gearshift is returned to park the doors automatically unlock.
I used my key fob to lock it back.
The courtsey lights and door locks will turn on and off on their own door locks will lock and unlock by themselves so was wondering what might cause this to happen.
A few seconds later the jeep again unlocked itself.
Door locks the drivers door panel module i have a jeep cherokee sport 1998 and the electronic door locks keep cycling locking and unlocking constantly.
Only common connection between them is communication via the ccd bus between the modules.
This setting is customizable.
However even unlocked the jeep tries to unlock itself about every 30 seconds.
Passenger door module pdm controls lr rf rr and liftgate.
After several lockings and unlockings i decided to just leave it unlocked.
One morning i started it up then shut the door to open the garage door and noticed for the first time that it locked the doors itself.
Using keyless entry then the pdm tells the ddm to lock unlock the lf door.
I have a 2004 jeep liberty.
Had a 2003 ford ranger that actually learned to lock the doors when i started it.
Probably because i would always lock them myself right after i would start it.
You can turn the feature off on all jeep models including the wrangler grand cherokee and commander.