New owner (<500 miles) . . . discovered this funny button the manual calls the "manual release button" (p.186 sec 4-2): "If a door cannot be opened using the door opener switch, the door can be opened using the manual release button. Firmly press the button until the door opens." Without the fob, I locked the doors with the lock button inside. Everything locked as expected. Fortunately, pressing/holding the manual release button didn't unlock the door. So what is its purpose and how/when would you use it? TIA Don
sorry to hear it. you're fairly new, but you'll get used to me, or there's an ignore button available
Like bisco, I don't have a gen 5, but from context in the manual, this is clearly a mechanical release, not an unlock. If the door is unlocked, pressing the button hard enough/far enough will mechanically release and open it. If the door isn't unlocked, it won't. The front door handles look like conventional mechanical ones. When you pull, the handle mechanically releases the door (as long as it's unlocked). That doesn't depend on anything electrical. The 'normal' way of opening the rear door is to reach your fingers behind the lip and touch what turns out to be an electrical switch, which releases the door (provided it isn't locked), as long as there is electrical power, you haven't touched it too many times lately, the car hasn't crashed in the last 10 seconds, and all that electronic jazz works. But there might be times when you just want to press a mechanical button that'll open the dumb door (as long as it isn't locked), and for those times, you have that button.
