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Old 02-18-2026, 01:45 PM   #1
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Passive Door Unlock Driver's Side not Responding

Okay I've searched everywhere and decided to wait to post about it until today. I've got my 2016 2SS, the passive door UNLOCK (edited, mistyped) works fine on the passenger side when attempting to enter the vehicle, but the driver side does not. Has anyone run into this issue? what was the fix? My first thought was the button not making contact or having a torn lead (haven't torn into it yet) but wanted to rule out anything else before I started pulling door trims to get into the door. Every other aspect of the locking / unlocking mechanism works. It locks fine automatically when I walk away, car starts normally every time. I have multiple fobs and replaced batteries in both. It is only the driver's side passive unlock that's not working.
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Last edited by vaeron; 02-20-2026 at 12:39 AM. Reason: mistyped and put lock instead of unlock.
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Old 02-19-2026, 08:46 AM   #2
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Are you asking about Passive Door LOCK or Passive Door UNLOCK?

Passive LOCK allows the car to automatically lock the doors once both doors are closed and you walk away from the car.

Passive UNLOCK is a setting to determine whether just the driver's door unlocks when you press the button on the handle or if both doors unlock. I believe it can also be set to "OFF" which would seemingly make it so that NO doors unlock when you press the button (which doesn't make sense in my mind).

There is also the DELAYED Lock feature which allows the car to lock the doors after a single press of the Door Lock button on either door, no fob in the vehicle, and both doors closed for about five seconds. I use this feature on my Camaro, my current Silverado, and on my previous Silverado.
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Old 02-19-2026, 09:25 AM   #3
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I have to press the button on my car. I didnt know there was a passive function.
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Old 02-19-2026, 02:37 PM   #4
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If I’m reading OP correctly, I’m having the same issue, even tho set to do so, the button on my driver door doesn’t always work, almost never on the first push, a couple times not even after four or five pushes. I more commonly now just go to the passenger door, which works fine and unlocks both doors, usually easier to put my backpack in the passenger seat that way anyway. (Just have to get to the driver side door before both doors auto-lock, which I have set also.) I just figured something was wearing out, but the work around wasn’t that horrible. (Key fobs work, just tend to not use them, not wild about sending a signal out into the world.)
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Old 02-20-2026, 12:38 AM   #5
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Quote:
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Are you asking about Passive Door LOCK or Passive Door UNLOCK?

Passive LOCK allows the car to automatically lock the doors once both doors are closed and you walk away from the car.

Passive UNLOCK is a setting to determine whether just the driver's door unlocks when you press the button on the handle or if both doors unlock. I believe it can also be set to "OFF" which would seemingly make it so that NO doors unlock when you press the button (which doesn't make sense in my mind).

There is also the DELAYED Lock feature which allows the car to lock the doors after a single press of the Door Lock button on either door, no fob in the vehicle, and both doors closed for about five seconds. I use this feature on my Camaro, my current Silverado, and on my previous Silverado.
Sorry, Unlock, I've messed with all of the settings on the head unit, nothing changes. I can get it to unlock on the passenger side using the button on the door, but not the drivers side. I've tried dozens of times to no avail.

My guess is it's probably a loose connection on the button or near the button on the handle but didn't want to tear the door panel off if y'all had other suggestions.
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