How To Disable Child Safety Locks?

If you have installed safety locks and are now unable to disable them in an emergency, then we have a quick guide to disable child safety locks. It is quite easy to follow simple methods and get your child out of the car or house.

Methods To Stop Child Safety Locks

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As for the tools, you don’t need to worry about that, at most the only thing you will require will be your car’s manual.

1. Open Back Passenger Door

Before you start, the first thing you should know is whether your car has electrical controls or not. In case, it doesn’t have electrical controls, you will have to disable the lock manually. You can do this by opening the rear passenger door of your car.

2. Move Child Safety Lock Switch Down To Locked Position

At the end of your door, you will find a small slider-like switch. Flip the switch to the unlocked position to disable the child safety lock. You can flip the switch back to the locked position anytime you want and this will make it so that the rear passenger door can’t be opened from inside.

3. Repeat On Both Rear Doors

After you are done disabling the lock on one side, the next thing you need to do is to repeat the same process for the other rear passenger door too. Doing this will disable the child safety lock on both the rear passenger doors. Based on your car model, the process might be different. For that, you can consult your car’s manual on how to disable the child safety locks.

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How To Disable Child Safety Locks Chevy Silverado?

Just like how you disabled the child safety lock for a non-electric system car, you can do the same for your Chevy Silverado.

First, you need to open your rear passenger door and locate the small slider like a switch at the end of the door. Now flip that switch to disable the child safety lock on your Chevy Silverado. Repeat this on the other rear passenger door to completely disable the child safety locks.

How To Stop Child Safety Locks From Car?

If your car has electric controls, then you can disable or enable the child safety locks from the dashboard. If not there, the armrest of your rear passenger door will have a switch to enable and disable the child safety locks.

All you have to do is flip the switch to an unlocked position. Check for the same switch for the other door too and repeat the same step to completely disable the child safety lock for your car.

How To Stop Child Safety Locks From Door Handles?

If you want to disable the child safety locks from the door handles, you will have to open the door from the outside and then locate the switch.

You will find the switch at the end of the rear passenger seat. Now depending on your car model, you can turn on or off the child safety locks by pressing the switch. If you are still confused, you can consult the car manual for your specific car model.

How To Stop Child Safety Locks On Ford Explorer?

If you own a Ford Explorer, the process to disable the child safety lock is a bit different. After locating the switch at the end of the rear passenger door, you will notice that the switch is different compared to other car models.

For this particular switch, you will need to insert the key and rotate it counter-clockwise until it ends up in a vertical position to disable the child safety lock of your left rear passenger door.

As for your right-side rear passenger door, you will need to rotate the switch clockwise until it ends up in a vertical position to disable the lock. And if you want to enable the child safety lock, you will need to do the vice versa of this until the switch ends up in a horizontal position.

How To Stop Child Safety Locks On Toyota?

If you own a Toyota, the process to disable the child safety lock is pretty simple. Just like the others, you will find the switch for the child safety lock at the end of your rear passenger door.

Now flip the switch to the on or off position to enable or disable the lock. This will make it so that the door can’t be opened from the inside.

Repeat the same steps for the other rear passenger door to completely disable the child safety locks.

When Should You Stop Child Safety Locks?

There isn’t a particular rule about when you should disable the child safety locks. It completely depends on your requirements. There are some factors that you should consider before disabling the child safety locks:

Whether your kids are responsible or not. If you have responsible kids who listen to you, can properly fasten or unfasten the seat belts, and know about car safety. Then you can disable the child safety locks.

Another thing you can do is to set some boundaries beforehand. Teach your kids about what they can and cannot do inside a car.

Make it clear, that they must listen to you while they are inside the car. You will have to set such restrictions and observe their behaviour based on that. Only after that, you should decide whether to disable the child safety locks or not.

One more thing, you can do is set up goals. You can teach your kids specific goals where they can’t unfasten the seat belts or open the door until they reach their destination. For example, you can teach your kids to not unfasten their seat belts or open the doors until they reach the school.

Final Talk

Although the child safety locks provide more safety. But there are times when they can be a nuisance too especially if your kids grew up over time or you have other people who want to sit on the rear passenger seats. If non of it works, prefer removing the child locks. In this article, we went on about how you can disable child safety locks for your car if there is a need to do so.