Hyundai Sonata: Child-protector rear door lock

The child safety lock is provided to help prevent children from accidentally opening the rear doors from inside the vehicle. The rear door safety locks should be used whenever children are in the vehicle.
1. Open the rear door.
2. Insert a key (or screwdriver) into the hole and turn it to the lock (
)
position. When the child safety lock is in the lock position, the rear door will
not open even when the inner door handle is pulled.
3. Close the rear door.
To open the rear door, pull the outside door handle (1).
Even though the doors may be unlocked, the rear door will not open by pulling the inner door handle (2) until the rear door child safety lock is unlocked.
WARNING - Rear door locks
If children accidentally open the rear doors while the vehicle is in motion, they could fall out of the vehicle, resulting in severe injury or death. To prevent children from opening the rear doors from the inside, the rear door safety locks should be used whenever children are in the vehicle.
Impact sensing door unlock system (if equipped)
All doors will be automatically unlocked when the impact is delivered to impact
sensors while the ignition switch is ON. However, the doors may not be unlocked
if mechanical problems occur with th ...
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Repair procedures
Removal
1.
Disconnect the negative (-) battery terminal.
2.
Remove the driver crash pad lower panel.
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Operating door locks from outside the vehicle
Turn the key toward the rear of the vehicle to unlock and toward the front
of the vehicle to lock.
If you lock the door with a key, all vehicle doors will lock automatically.
From the driv ...
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