Hyundai Elantra: Accessing Your Vehicle / Remote Key

Your HYUNDAI uses a remote key, which you can use to lock or unlock the driver and passenger doors or the rear trunk.

(1) Door Lock
(2) Door Unlock
(3) Trunk Unlock
(4) Panic

Locking your vehicle

To lock your vehicle:

1. Make sure all doors, the engine hood and the trunk are closed.

2. Press the Door Lock button (1) on the remote key to lock all doors.

3. The doors will lock and the hazard warning lights will blink.

4. Make sure the doors are locked by checking the position of the door lock button inside the vehicle.

WARNING

Do not leave the keys in your vehicle with unsupervised children. Unattended children could place the key in the ignition switch and may operate power windows or other controls, or even make the vehicle move, which could result in serious injury or death.

Unlocking your vehicle

To unlock your vehicle:

1. Press the Door Unlock button (2) on the remote key.

2. The driver’s door will unlock. The hazard warning lights will blink two times.

• Two press unlock setting:

If you press the Door Unlock button on the remote key again within four seconds, then all the doors will unlock.

Two press unlock setting can be changed according to owner’s preference in the cluster User Settings mode.

• User settings mode method:

Select or deselect the ‘Two Press Unlock’ feature in the User Settings mode on the cluster LCD display (User Settings → Door → Two Press Unlock).

Information

After unlocking the doors, the doors will automatically relock after 30 seconds unless a door is opened.

Trunk unlocking

To unlock the trunk :

1. Press and hold the Trunk Unlock button (3) on the remote key for more than one second.

2. The hazard warning lights will blink two times and the trunk will be unlocked.

3. Once the trunk is opened and then closed, the trunk will automatically lock.

Information

The word “HOLD” is written on the button to inform you that you must press and hold the button for more than one second.

Panic button

Press and hold the Panic button (4) for more than one second. The horn sounds and hazard warning lights flash for about 30 seconds.

To cancel the panic mode, press any button on the remote key.

Start-up

NOTICE

To prevent damaging the remote key:

• Keep the remote key away from water or any liquid and fire. Internal circuits may malfunction if the inside of the remote key gets damp (from liquids or moisture) or if it is heated. This can exclude the remote key from being covered under warranty.
• Avoid dropping or throwing the remote key.
• Protect the remote key from extreme temperatures.

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