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1995 940 alarm?

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Old Jul 5th, 2018, 22:50   #1
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I've just noticed on my 940 now I have a battery on it all the time that the little triangular shaped alarm thing on the driver's side A pillar is flashing red, should it be doing that? There's no alarm sounding, I don't have a fob for it, just an old-school hard key so to speak.
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I've just noticed on my 940 now I have a battery on it all the time that the little triangular shaped alarm thing on the driver's side A pillar is flashing red, should it be doing that? There's no alarm sounding, I don't have a fob for it, just an old-school hard key so to speak.
The little red led should be flashing when the alarm is activated, and should be out with ignition on/ car running. David.
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I've got the whole Volvo Guard 1 manual in pdf format if you need it.

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It also flashes when an alarm sensor has been triggered and the alarm is not activated; eg when a door is open.
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I have that in my 95 940 but i've never touched it for fear of it breaking/ going off randomly, does the system mean my car had fobs with buttons when new? Always wondered as I know later 940 models had them and I never got any with mine but got 3 keys.
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I've got the whole Volvo Guard 1 manual in pdf format if you need it.

That's excellent thank you, I'll check what they're doing today.

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I have that in my 95 940 but i've never touched it for fear of it breaking/ going off randomly, does the system mean my car had fobs with buttons when new? Always wondered as I know later 940 models had them and I never got any with mine but got 3 keys.
I wondered that too, my 850 (also an N reg) has two fobs plus keys.
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The remotes for this type of alarm, Volvoguard 1, look like this. They are different from the later, Volvoguard 2, type which superseded it in around 1996. The Volvoguard 1 remotes have been NLA from Volvo for a while but they crop up on eBay occasionally. Dead ones can often be repaired by some judicious re-soldering of the internal PCB.

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Yeah, my 95 has it factory AFAIK. After that last battery failure it has died though. Started locking the car and immbilising randomly.

I've just unplugged it and connected the start motor pins.
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If you did manage to aquire a replacement alarm fob, it is possible to code in as a second remote?
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The Volvoguard 1 alarm can store up to three remotes and the memory positions can be overwritten with new ones without special equipment. I think when all memory positions on the Volvoguard 2 are full it requires a special volvo gubbins to erase the old remotes. You will need to find the relevant service manual for your system online.
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