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Is there a way to disable keyless entry? I've had my 2025 XLE Premium for a month and the keyless is driving me nuts. Sometimes I grab the handle and push the button spot, it takes a lot of fiddling before it unlocks or locks. Other times it unlocks before I actually touch the handle. So I just use the fob. But the worst is when I open a back door to put stuff in, and then go to open the drivers door, half the time it locks on me. The keyless won't unlock immediately after locking, so I have to use the fob. So frustrating. If Dodge can make keyless work seamlessly, surely Toyota can.
 
Discussion starter · #6 ·
FKHeath said:
The sensor at the top of the handle is for locking the door. When you want to unlock the door, you don't touch that (I assume that is what you mean by "push the button spot"). The sensor for unlocking the door is on the inside of the handle. Just wrap your fingers around the handle to activate that spot.

If you grab the handle and immediately pull to open the door, the system doesn't have time to react and the door won't unlock. The proper way is to grab the handle and do not pull it right away; pause for a half second to give the system time to react, then pull the handle.

When I wash my RAV4, water seems to activate the sensors; I will spray water on the car and the car will lock/unlock if I have the key fob in my pocket. I have learned to leave the fob in the house when I wash the car.

If you wear gloves (or maybe even if your hands are very dry), the car will not unlock. That leads me to believer that the sensors actual work by current conducting across the slots, not a capacitive sensing like the radio screen. That also explains why water may trigger the lock/unlock.

When you open the hatch, the other doors are automatically unlocked. (Closing the hatch does not lock the other doors). If you don't touch the lock sensor at the top of the door handle, the doors won't lock.
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For unlocking I was doing exactly as you said, but it doesn't always unlock even after holding it 5-10 seconds. I gave up after a week of trying and just use the fob now, and I'm fine with that.

The most frustrating situation is when the car is already unlocked (from opening a rear door or the tailgate), and when I go to open the drivers door it sometimes locks on me. My thumb is nowhere near the sensor on the top of the handle. That's why I'd like to disable it.
 
Discussion starter · #7 ·
I wasn't clear. It will sometimes lock on me when I go to open the unlocked door. I'm in the process of grabbing the handle and may not have even touched it when it locks.
 
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