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With my 2021 Trailhawk, it gives a visual text alert when the key is removed from the vehicle with the engine running. On the display between the tach and the speedometer. I don't know how long it stays on; I assume as long as the fob is out of the vehicle. So I'd assume it would have stayed on for the entire trip home, if you'd dropped the key fob in the parking garage after starting the engine.
The alert occurs as soon as the key fob leaves the inside of the vehicle. The engine keeps running, though.
I don't think there's an audible signal, though -- but maybe. I don't know if that can be adjusted in Settings.
If you got a ding halfway home, then yes it might have been because it was reminding you to buckle the passenger seatbelt, if the package there was heavy enough. You should have gotten a text alert for that, I'd think.
Yes, the message that you need to press the fob against the start button occurs either when the key isn't present (inside the cabin, I think); or that the fob battery is dead.
I'd guess the most-likely thing is that the key fob is somewhere in your home...
It's kind of scary how sophisticated the electronics are for stuff like locking of starting the Renegade -- like a lot of things on the vehicle. But it all seems to be pretty-well thought out and fail-safe as much as it can be. (Except there have been reports here of people locking themselves in when the body control module malfunctions.)
With my 2021 Trailhawk, it gives a visual text alert when the key is removed from the vehicle with the engine running. On the display between the tach and the speedometer. I don't know how long it stays on; I assume as long as the fob is out of the vehicle. So I'd assume it would have stayed on for the entire trip home, if you'd dropped the key fob in the parking garage after starting the engine.
The alert occurs as soon as the key fob leaves the inside of the vehicle. The engine keeps running, though.
I don't think there's an audible signal, though -- but maybe. I don't know if that can be adjusted in Settings.
If you got a ding halfway home, then yes it might have been because it was reminding you to buckle the passenger seatbelt, if the package there was heavy enough. You should have gotten a text alert for that, I'd think.
Yes, the message that you need to press the fob against the start button occurs either when the key isn't present (inside the cabin, I think); or that the fob battery is dead.
I'd guess the most-likely thing is that the key fob is somewhere in your home...
It's kind of scary how sophisticated the electronics are for stuff like locking of starting the Renegade -- like a lot of things on the vehicle. But it all seems to be pretty-well thought out and fail-safe as much as it can be. (Except there have been reports here of people locking themselves in when the body control module malfunctions.)
