I believe the deal is once all doors are shut and they key is on the exterior of the car is when it honks. So if the driver's door is the only one open and you shut it with the car running with key in hand, if it were to ever honk that would be the moment it would honk. You can technically bypass the honking by not completely shutting the door or leaving the key in the car. The main reason it even came up is because so many people up North have to warm up/thaw out their cars before they leave, so they start it up, get out, shut the door and *honk honk* waking up the neighbors at 6am.
Well, I am up north, and have already had the pleasure of the below zero temps in the ST but I garage mine. Kind of besides the point in my case though. (And I'm sure many have had it much colder).
The key's always in my pocket. And I've done it several times with all doors closed.. I'm anal about making sure bugs don't get inside & maintaining interior temps. I generally don't leave the doors open for any reason. Although I did so, specifically to test the honking thing. No honks regardless. Doors closed, or open.
I also often forget things in the house, leave the car running out front while I run back to the house and upstairs to find whatever's missing.
I'm not a morning person so... the last second dart back to the house to grab something I forgot in my barely awake state of mind is a pretty frequent occurrence.. lol
Either way, based on the feedback from the forums it seems pretty much verified that some people's honk, others don't.. Same circumstances. Either that or there is a wholleeeeee lot of miscommunication going around.. haha
Weird to say the least. I still have to say though, the honk seems defective.