Patent ID: 6998967

Claim:
A method of relocking a vehicle ( 2 ) equipped with a hands-free access system comprising a badge ( 4 ) and means of communication by electromagnetic signals between the vehicle ( 2 ) and the badge ( 4 ) making it possible to locate the badge ( 4 ) with respect to the vehicle, the handsfree access system making it possible to operate a locking of the doors when the last door of the vehicle ( 2 ) is closed and when the badge ( 4 ) exits a first zone (Z 1 ) delimited around the vehicle, characterized in that a second zone (Z 2 ), more extensive than the first zone (Z 1 ), is delimited around the vehicle and in that a relocking is commanded when, after a locking of the doors commanded by the hands-free system, a door is opened without action of the hands-free system and then closed again, uniquely insofar as a badge ( 4 ) is located within the second zone (Z 2 ).