How should the doors lock?

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I have a 68 Newport convertible. Right now it seems the only way I can lock the door from the outside is to use the key. Should I be able to just hit the lock button and close it, or hit the lock button and hold the outside button down as I close? Neither options works, I can only use a key. Is there an issue with my locks or is that just the way it is?
 
Some things will never change. It worked that way when new. Carry on.
 
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They only lock from the outside with a key, unless you want to leave the driver's window down and lock it from outside that way. Defeats the whole purpose of a lock though.

Dave
 
I did not realize that, what year did it start? I'm glad my 66 is not like that, but it doesn't really matter, because my top is rarely up. :)
 
I did not realize that, what year did it start? I'm glad my 66 is not like that, but it doesn't really matter, because my top is rarely up. :)
Both my '66 Polaras only lock from outside with the key, I learned that when I first went to lock it. I'm glad they didn't, because I also learned that day, that I had mismatched ignition and door lock keys/cylinders. Haven't fixed it in fifteen years, I've never locked the car!
 
My two door 67 Sport Fury hardtop's operated like you described. According to the owner's manual " Both front doors, if locked below closing, will automatically unlock when shut. This feature prevents locking yourself out of the car with the keys inside."
 
i found the loop hole with my 4dr ht to lock the front doors without the key. open the rear doors, shut the front doors and lock them and lock the back doors last...
 
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Y'all are PRESUMING that Chrysler's "locked" the same way that GM cars did back then, which they didn't!

Since the earlier '60s, with a GM car, you'd punch the lock button down, push the outside handle button, and close the door. It would be locked. Try that with a Chrysler of similar vintage, and it might break something.

Push the inside lock button and close the door? It'll push the lock button up as the door closes.

The REASON was not to make life rougher, BUT to make you have the car keys in your hand to lock the door, rather than them be in the ignition switch when the door was locked. Plain and simple! Therefore not needing to orchestrate "Other methods" of getting into the car to retrieve the keys that were in it.

Seems like all of this alleged "foolishness in engineering" had given way to the GM-way of things by 1970? I know that our '72 Newport was "punch the button, close the door". No need to hold the outer button in any more, which was easier than the old "GM Way".

Enjoy what made Chryslers CHRYSLERS,
CBODY67
 
I guess I must never hardly lock my car, I forgot I had to lock it with a key. I have a 73 MGB which you have to lock with a key only too, that I have had forever. I guess I haven't even thought about it, on the few occasions which I do lock it. :)
 
You shouldn't lock convertibles anyway. I'd rather have the change in my ashtray stolen than a slashed top and change still stolen. Install a kill switch and run with that.
 
When i have a car load of people, that means i would have to go on both sides if the car to lock it or i'm the last one out... It's easy for me to do it that way

Not really. Just be "the last one out", reach across the seat space to manually hit EACH of the lock button individually, then close the driver's door, and lock it with the key. That way the DRIVER knows the car is locked, themselves, and not relying upon others to correctly know how to use the Chrysler locking system, back then.

OR, if the car had electric locks, use the key (hidden) switch to lock and unlock all of the doors at once, using the lh key cylinder. "Salvage yard retrofit" from a NY with power locks?

CBODY67
 
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