Alarm behaviour

[CatmanV2]

Hello, oh 4200 owners.

David Askew, famed supplier of pre-loved parts of this parish, kindly exchanged some of your earth pounds for a new siren for my 4200 alarm.

Plugged it in yesterday, but would like to confirm what happens when the rest of you use your alarms.

(It's a 2002, BTW)

1) If I close everything up, and lock the car with the remote, I get three hazzard flashes. No noise.
2) If I leave (for example) the boot open, and lock the car with the remote, I get a hazzard flash, a beep from the siren and then the alarm disarms, as one would expect.
3) If I arm it as in 1, and wait for the system to stabilise (25 seconds according to the workshop manual), and then unlock the door with the key and open it: bingo siren goes off, hazzard and so on.
4) Disarming, again nothing from the siren.

So the siren works, the alarm works. Sounds to me like a setting somewhere. Alfa 156's used to have a very badly documented option that allowed silent arming and disarming by doing some odd sequence of presses with the bonnet pin.

I guess also that there may be something about the alarm having been initialised with no siren attached (when it was in for work).

Thoughts, anyone?

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[mjheathcote]

Mines the same also a classic 4200, silent siren...although the F1 pump springs to life when unlocking!

 

[CatmanV2]

Ahh, now that's useful to know, thanks!

Yes, I also get the pump firing on unlock as opposed to opening the door or similar.

The other odd thing that I have noticed is that if I *unlock* the passenger door on the key, the window drops *without* opening it.

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[mjheathcote]

Can't say I have ever unlocked a car using the key in the door in over 10 years! (My Stag excepted!)

 

[CatmanV2]

Can't say I have ever unlocked a car using the key in the door in over 10 years! (My Stag excepted!)

There was a reason: Putting an electric radiator in, I didn't want the convection currents to trigger the alarm so I locked it on the key...

Things seem to be drying out now.

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[safrane]

Catman that sound ok and the same as my old 03 4200. I would often leave the boot open so the battery could be left on charge.

 

[CatmanV2]

Thanks, Safrane. It does seem to be the standard. Bit irritating, as the locks are quite quiet, I and I like to make sure it's locked

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[Tubber273]

Ahh, now that's useful to know, thanks!

Yes, I also get the pump firing on unlock as opposed to opening the door or similar.

The other odd thing that I have noticed is that if I *unlock* the passenger door on the key, the window drops *without* opening it.

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I doubt my North American "classic" is any different with the alarms there, but mine also drops the window at times when I unlock electronically.
But only sometimes.

 

[CatmanV2]

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