ADD WALK-AWAY LOCKING! ONE OF MY TOP EV6 COMPLAINTS SOLVED

I'm wanting to do this mod but I'm gonna wait for that trailer plug that he is doing as well. It will be more plug n play. I'm glad this mod works on the GT tho.

Edit: Also I found it strange that we can remotely open up the trunk but we can't remotely close it. 🤷

Even my prior 2011 MDX could do this so Kia needs to provide an update cause I know this is possible along with this mod but they won't do it for some reason. It's probably something legal that they don't want to be responsible for.

I know not every car will be perfect but stuff like this should be standard now especially on an expensive car like this. If Honda and Acura could do this they should be able to as well.

As always, thank you for the very informative video. I would love to have my EV6 lock on its own just as it auto opens when I walk toward the car. I think for me though, I am satisfied with the way it is. I could easily lock with the remote, or place my finger over the spot on the door handle to lock it. Also, I can lock it through Kia Connect app.

Knowing any Kia or Hyundai dealer can’t even change oil correctly screwing with this and having something go wrong you WILL NEVER GET YOUR CAR BACK from them. You’re inviting huge liability suggesting anyone tries this on their own. Bad bad idea.

Thanks for posting this. I enjoyed watching it. But, no way I would attempt this myself lol.

Does door locks when keys are inside the car? Corbin said it does not. I see that you have ev6 as i do. So just wnat to make sure. Thank you!

Kinchi ya no hace vídeos!! Eres mejor el Mustang verdad?

What’s the cost and how do I purchase?

Kinchi ya no sacas videos? Era mejor el Mustang verdad?

Just NUTS it doesn't have this feature already! My Mazda 3 that was half the price of my GT-Line, that I traded in for had this, if it can sense you walking up it absolutely can detect your waking away, no way I'm doing all this hacking in when it could already be enabled if they wanted to. We need to push Kia for an answer WHY they don't do this!

This reminds me of having a car that was only offered with terrible halogen headlights in my country when other countries had nice projector options. These alternative headlights could be ordered fairly cheap but needed some wiring mods to work right. So this guy came up with a complex way to get the out of country headlights working right, huge forum post with instructions, sold the parts at cost for the benefit of the community, etc. Then a guy comes in and says "wait, why are you doing all that? All you have to do is flip these two wires in the harness connector and it does the same thing." Well, dudes elaborate post with instructions was deleted by the next day. I felt sorry for him, but a perfect example of why not to immediately dive in too quickly when a simpler solution will come around, hell, Kia could end up enabling this in an OTA update.

much easier to just press the key fob

Hi, I have the EV6 GT as well and if I stand next to my vehicle it unlocks and if I don't open the door and move away from the door it locks back up. So was there an over the air update or something??

It seems that the same device could be used to auto-unlock upon approach in the EV6 Wind if programmed for that also. I've seen a lot of Wind owners complain about auto unlock more than auto lock.

You know my mustang Mach-e has this feature standard 🙂