At first, I noticed that my car alarm doesn't sound at all if I forgot to close the door/boot and pressed the lock button on my remote control key. So I was a little worried that there was a fault with my alarm system.
Then today, I tested my alarms and found that it's working ... hurray...
Here are the findings:
1) The normal function of the alarm is, when you shut tight all the doors, and then press the lock on your remote control, there will be a single high pitched beep sound coming out from your car alarm. And then the red light next to the lock knob on the driver's side will start to blink to indicate the alarm is armed.
2) If you forgot to close your doors tightly before pressing the remote control to lock the car, the alarm will not trigger a sound. You wont even hear the single high beep sound. When you dont hear a sound, this indicates that one of your doors are not shut tightly. (Slightly different from the normal alarm system which will wake the whole neighbourhood with false alarm if you only forgot to close one door. I guess they want to minimise false alarms so that when you really hear teh alarm sound, it means that you REALLY have to be alert and that someone has really tried to open the door)
3) Even if you forgot close your boot, the alarm will not sound. But again, the single high pitch beep will not sound, indicating you havent locked all doors completely.
Then today, I tested my alarms and found that it's working ... hurray...
Here are the findings:
1) The normal function of the alarm is, when you shut tight all the doors, and then press the lock on your remote control, there will be a single high pitched beep sound coming out from your car alarm. And then the red light next to the lock knob on the driver's side will start to blink to indicate the alarm is armed.
2) If you forgot to close your doors tightly before pressing the remote control to lock the car, the alarm will not trigger a sound. You wont even hear the single high beep sound. When you dont hear a sound, this indicates that one of your doors are not shut tightly. (Slightly different from the normal alarm system which will wake the whole neighbourhood with false alarm if you only forgot to close one door. I guess they want to minimise false alarms so that when you really hear teh alarm sound, it means that you REALLY have to be alert and that someone has really tried to open the door)
3) Even if you forgot close your boot, the alarm will not sound. But again, the single high pitch beep will not sound, indicating you havent locked all doors completely.
4) If you unlock the doors with your remote key and don't open any doors within 1 minute, the door will automaticly relock by itself and the alarm system will be armed again.
5) If any of the doors are open after the alarm is armed, then it will trigger the alarm (high pitch continuous bee-boo).
I did the following test-
a) Wind down a window,
b) Subsequently shut all the doors tight.
c) Lock the door with the remote control.
d) Unlock and open the door via the wound down window.
This will trigger the loud high pitched continous bee-boo... [:D]
1 comment:
Wow a neat SOP for checking the Alarm system. Also remember that the engine may not start if your gear isn't in P....that got me in a panic for awhile initially :)
For such a car, you really got a great deal. I got my 1.6 when it was sold for 80k and I still think it was a good buy.
Seriously, live's too short to be worrying about the fuel consumption, if you can't afford it, you are in the wrong line of work ;)
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