My car alarm keeps going off for some reason. Can I disable the alarm for now?

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Jun 18, 2006 | 06:25 PM

gh0st

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My car alarm keeps going off for some reason. Can I disable the alarm for now?

Just so my neighbors won't want to kill me and so I can keep the doors locked.

Its happened to me 3 times today. For no reason it will just start to beep. Could it be a switch somewhere thats just messed up?

Jun 18, 2006 | 06:30 PM

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Should be a butt on the lower portion of the B pillar on the Dside.

Are your windows open?

Jun 18, 2006 | 06:38 PM

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yeah, I already tried that, it didn't work

At first thats what I thought it was, so I pushed the button and 5 min later it was going off again. Then I rolled up the windows and again 5 min later it was going off. Now it just did it again

Maybe tomorrow I'll just try bypassing the hood switch, I hope its just that

Jun 18, 2006 | 08:12 PM

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isn't that just to disable interior motion sensors?

Jun 19, 2006 | 03:41 AM

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yup

Jun 19, 2006 | 01:32 PM

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Check the wire that to the hood latch mechanism.

The wire usually runs along the inner radiator support. My wire came off the guide and the fan ate it. I grabbed some speaker cable spliced it in and zipped tied it on. Problem gone.

Jun 27, 2006 | 08:24 AM

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Re: yeah, I already tried that, it didn't work

im having the exact same problem. turned off the interior sensor and it's still going off. my windows are down just a hair (it's crazy hot right now).

did you figure out what was causing your alarm to go off?