Front Door Key Lock Direction!?

[dbs600]

The batteries on my key fob recently died and the direction I have to turn the driver’s door lock to unlock the door is very strange! In every prior car I've ever had you had to turn counter clockwise to unlock and clockwise to lock, yet on the LX470 you have to do the opposite!? Then, strange enough, I was trying to get into the truck from the passenger side door and noticed that it works the way it should: Counter clockwise to unlock and clockwise to lock. Can anyone please confirm whether or not your truck does same and why!? Strange.

 

[uHu]

All the toyotas i've driven unlocks by tuning the top of the key towards the rear of the car. I.e. clockwise on driver's (LHD) door and counter-clock on passenger's door.

 

[dbs600]

Strange; I wonder what their logic / rationale is? Universally, 'open' is counter clockwise and 'close' is clockwise; screws, jar / container caps, every other lock I've come across, etc. Anyway... Thanks!

 

[lexi4darin]

It's a Toyota thing

 

[uHu]

Nonsense
wtf
it's just like any other door
how do you unlock the door of you house? Turn towards the frame of the door, or away. No clock or sun or left or right !! It's always relative to the doorframe, i.e which way the door swings.

 

[lexi4darin]

All car companies aren't doing this. As a mostly Toy owner, I've bought a few cars over the years that had the keys doing a counter vs clockwise method which had me confused on why it's different.

I have a buddy who's a big Audi head. He thinks the refill neck for the fuel tank on Toys is on the wrong side of the vehicle. Go figure because I prefer it on the driver's side yet I don't see one side as more correct than another.

 

[dbs600]

My question is not nonsense. To unlock you should twist the key to the left and to lock you should twist the key to the right. Same goes for putting the key in the ignition: To turn the car off you twist the key to the left and to turn the car on you twist the key to the right. Nevertheless, what complicates matters more is that Toyota / Lexus does not even have the same method for the driver's and the front passenger's door; where you twist to the right on the driver's door to unlock, but you twist to the left on the front passenger's to unlock. It is this strange difference between the two doors that makes no sense...

 

[saillaw]

Mine does the same as you are explaining, turn towards front of LC to unlock, rear of LC to lock. I don't remember what the back door does.

When I first figured it out, I too thought it was strange, and still do. IMHO all the locks on the car should lock in the same direction.

 

[lexi4darin]

Nonsense
wtf
it's just like any other door
how do you unlock the door of you house? Turn towards the frame of the door, or away. No clock or sun or left or right !! It's always relative to the doorframe, i.e which way the door swings.

Makes perfect sense, except for the rear hatch of a LC/LX which works in the opposite manner.