Car Alarm

[simonpolly]

Silly question this I suppose but here goes.  I always lock the car with the remote pressing just the once however when I have the dog with me which is much of the time I am unable to lock the car as the movement sets off the alarm.

I have tried to lift up the little latch by the door handle but it will not shift, so anyone know how I can lock my car bypassing the alarm, I guess I've been lucky so far that no one has broken in.

Gizzy

There is a button inside the drivers door which shuts off the internal sensors,open the drivers door and look on the body work you will see a button.

[Snoopy]

A little tip too you seem to have to have the door open before the switch will work and allow you to turn off the sensors as it does not change colour otherwise. Ive made that mistake a couple of times  :embarassed:

[ErikGTI]

I don't have any alarm stickers on mine  

Or mine.

Here a pic of my alarmsticker...the fluid is thinner or sticker-removers a bit afraid of damaging the rearwindow-heat-tracing.

[Snoopy]

Just gently peal it off. We get dealer name stickers in this location and i have removed them upto a year later without problems.

[gizzywizzy]

Silly question this I suppose but here goes.  I always lock the car with the remote pressing just the once however when I have the dog with me which is much of the time I am unable to lock the car as the movement sets off the alarm.

I have tried to lift up the little latch by the door handle but it will not shift, so anyone know how I can lock my car bypassing the alarm, I guess I've been lucky so far that no one has broken in.

Gizzy

There is a button inside the drivers door which shuts off the internal sensors,open the drivers door and look on the body work you will see a button.

Brilliant thanks so much I've never noticed that before  

[gizzywizzy]

A little tip too you seem to have to have the door open before the switch will work and alloy you to tuen off the sensors as it does not change colour otherwise. Ive made that mistake a couple of times  :embarassed:

Thanks Snoops, yeah when Simon put in his post I went and tried it with the door shut and it didn't work, so another lesson learned. 

Great forum this for learning new things and tricks 

Gizzy

[Snoopy]

The reason i posted to try with the sensors off is it may not be the sensors and be one of the switches. (doors,boot,bonnet)
If you have ever seen the rear of a door switch, What use to happen was that water would run down the door pillar and create a circuit across the contacts of the switch body. This would trigger an alarm. Its also known for intermittent faults in the past with bonnet switches on VW.

I agree it could be one of many things it does not help with it being a very intermittent problem,the last time it happened i took it in less than a week later and i had only used the car twice inbetween the alarm going off and the dealer plugging it in,the computer system can not be up to much if it had not stored any information in that short time. Its not a major problem just a little annoying in the middle of the night and would be more of a problem if no one was around to reset it. 

I cannot remember but have a look in the manual it may say that the alarm led after it is set off then flashes up a fault code sequence with a certain amount of led flashes to say what set it off. Most alarm units do this. The problem is if you switch it off then switch it back on this clears the alarm code (alarm unit not car CAN system).

[ErikGTI]

Just gently peal it off. We get dealer name stickers in this location and i have removed them upto a year later without problems.

Thanks I am gonna give it a try right now...

[ErikGTI]

.................took 5 sec  :embarassed:

Now tomorrow I can proudly show the Germans my rear....