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So I pissed of my new car

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The Digital Slacker

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Went to open the door on it tonight and the factory alarm got an attitude. So apparently if you lock the doors with the key fob... then with the windows down pull the door lock tab on the top of the door up to unlock and open the door handle, it gets angry. The light on the started flashing like crazy, the horn was going and lights were flashing.

I thought i hit the panic button but hitting it didn't do anything. I hit the unlock button twice which stopped the horn but the dash light was still pissed off. It didn't stop flashing until i relocked it.

Strange stuff.
 
That's not too strange actually. I think a lot of newer alarm systems do that. They also don't like it if you lock the doors with the fob then unlock one door with the key. I learned that the hard way a few times when I used to work at PepBoys. One time this lady brought in a new Suzuki XL7 and locked it with the fob, then gave the service writer the spare key (without fob) and took her fob with her. I went to open it up with the key and the alarm went off and obviously it wouldn't start so we had to call her to come back and unlock it. :crazy:
 
Yea, that seems to be a pretty common thing.

My mom's '02 Taurus does the same thing. I'm sure that you'll figure out all the car's quirks and get used to them.
 
random alarm stories..

High school friend of mine had a '93 Corolla with aftermarket alarm. It wouldn't function (lock/arm/unlock) if you manually locked the doors. If you made that mistake, you then had to insert the key, reopen the door, press Unlock on the door panel, close the door, and lock the car with the remote keyfob.
Another friend got real pissed at her '98 Accord because it refuses to lock the doors while the key was in the ignition and the driver's door open. A good thing, perhaps, but all she wanted to do was go back inside while the car warmed up. My Maxima and Legacy do the same thing.
My Probe GT had an aftermarket Clifford alarm that never worked until one day when it very randomly fired as I was fiddling with the "code" toggle switch. Thankfully the (previously nonworking) remote turned it off.
If you lock the doors manually on my Subaru, it will automatically arm itself when the last door is closed. (Incidentally, the little blinking "Security" LED in the gauge cluster is purposeless. It blinks as soon as the car is turned off, regardless if the car is locked or even if doors are closed.)
 
My Cougar does that. So does my Saturn.

Think about it, you leave your car and lock it with the keyfob. Some douche breaks out your glass, reaches inside and opens the door by hand - wouldn't you want the alarm to go off?

It doesn't have a motion detector; it won't go off when the glass breaks. For a factory alarm, it's the best it can do.
 
So after you got the alarm to turn off, did you give it a good thrashin for being the incorrigible, insolent pup she is?
 
Pen_Two said:
Wow, I had to double check my post to see if I actually did capitalize every word.
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WTH happened ?? I didn't remember it being that way either ...

99 red SVT said:
So after you got the alarm to turn off, did you give it a good thrashin for being the incorrigible, insolent pup she is?
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I would have - Bad girl , bad girl !!!
 
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I used stabilizer last winter in both cars. I haven't noted any effects.

well one car had teh injectors and fuel pump swapped and the SVT is showing signs of the classic returnless fuel pump failure .... :help:, maybe ...
 
might be it...on an unrelated note, I stopped running Berrymans through my UIM vacuum lines because I think it was causing me to burn through catalytic converters...
 
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