Chevrolet Spark Owners Manual: Automatic Door Locks
If equipped, the vehicle is programmed so that when the doors are closed, the ignition is on, and the shift lever is moved out of P (Park) for automatic transmissions, or the vehicle speed is above 13 km/h (8 mph) for manual transmissions, the doors and the liftgate will lock.
To unlock the doors and the liftgate:
- Press
on the door. - If equipped with an automatic transmission, shift the transmission into P (Park).
- If equipped with a manual transmission, remove the key from the ignition.
Delayed Locking
This feature delays the locking of the doors until five seconds after all doors
are closed.
When is pressed on the power door
lock switch while the door is open, a chime will sound three times i ...
Lockout Protection
When locking is requested with the driver door open and the key in the ignition,
all the doors will lock and then the driver door will unlock. This can be manually
overridden by pressing and holdi ...
Other materials:
Braking
Braking action involves perception time and reaction time. Deciding to push the
brake pedal is perception time. Actually doing it is reaction time.
Average driver reaction time is about three-quarters of a second. In that time,
a vehicle moving at 100 km/h (60 mph) travels 20m (66 ft), which co ...
Exterior Lighting
The exterior lamp control is on the turn signal lever on the left side of the
steering column.
There are four positions:
Turns on the headlamps together with
the parking lamps and instrument panel lights.
Turns on the parking lamps including
all lamps, except the headlamps.
Turns the ...
When Should an Airbag Inflate?
This vehicle is equipped with airbags. See Airbag System on page 3-19. Airbags
are designed to inflate if the impact exceeds the specific airbag system's deployment
threshold. Deployment thresholds are used to predict how severe a crash is likely
to be in time for the airbags to inflate an ...