alarm problems!!

[davej23]

hi people, hope u can help me out.
my alarm has been goin off non stop for the last 2 weeks. its the standard alarm so i was wondering if any1 else has had a similar problem??

 

[amnesia]

Yeah, I had a similar problem with mine. It's annoying as hell. I had to turn the alarm off completely for it to stop. It was a risk at night, but that's all I could do to stop the sound. Try closing all of the doors and the boot properly. Mainly the boot. Give it a hard shut, though. In worst case scenario, take it back to the dealers and they'll fix it for you. That's what I had to do and they ordered me a new alarm system or something along those lines. Hope this helps.

 

[davej23]

yeah ive tried all the doors n stuff, so looks like she's off back to the garage...
good old warranty!! cheers

 

[amnesia]

No worries man. Hope they fix it for ya' quickly. =)

 

[Alfredog4]

Do you guys get 2yrs. Warranty just like us?

 

[davej23]

im sure i got 3 years with mine mate

 

[Alfredog4]

Lucky you! hahaha, we only get 2 yrs, which is why Seat doesn't sell that much in the DR. most of the competition offer 3 and 4 yrs. But meh, the Leon is worth it =D

 

[amnesia]

Yeah, we get 3 years. Or the 30,000 service thingy.

 

[OLDOILER]

hi people, hope u can help me out.
my alarm has been goin off non stop for the last 2 weeks. its the standard alarm so i was wondering if any1 else has had a similar problem??

Check ALL the early threads with [alarm / sensor] - early build Leons had this problem - my daughters was off the road for 8wks think the fault was tracked down to a bad batch of n/s door sensors - the dealership should have the latest Seat fault tables by now??!!. Good luck and DON'T be fobbed off either

 

[BanziBarn]

How do you turn the alaem off? When it happened to mine the only option for me was to keep the car unllocked!

 

[flakmunky]

Pressing the lock button twice disables the internal volumetric sensors.

 

[Tam]

Pressing the lock button twice disables the internal volumetric sensors.

Which is fine, if its them thats faulty, however if its a door sensor thats faulty, the alarms still going to go off

 

[flakmunky]

The alarm has current sensing and vibration sensing as well as internal volumetric sensors. At least by disabling these the OP may be able to rule these out as causing the fault!

 

[davej23]

took the car to the garage 2day.
seems the problem was a faulty ecu!! had to have a new part ordered in. the ecu controls the alarms and the computer system, plus a few interior bit accordin to the mechanic i spoke to. the original fault i found was a faulty interior light, which then led to the ecu failing.
so if u have similar prob, best get in touch with the garage

 

[BanziBarn]

Which is fine, if its them thats faulty, however if its a door sensor thats faulty, the alarms still going to go off

Quite. I think its silly that ther is no means of deactivating it, although I understand that this could mean a thief coud also potentially do it.

 

[seat_lion]

why not just lock the door with the key rather than setting the alarm

 

[BanziBarn]

I tried that,and the key activates the alarm too!