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S80 T6 dead, ticking sound after key removed from ignitionViews : 3101 Replies : 15Users Viewing This Thread : |
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Dec 29th, 2012, 01:03 | #11 | |
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Dec 31st, 2012, 20:15 | #12 | |
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Did you get sorted eventually? My alarm has started its nonsense the last few weeks so im just using the key to lock the car manually without setting the alarm. If the alarm fuse gets taken out can you just go back to using the keyfob/remote to lock car? (bypassing alarm setting + therefore draining battery issue?) Thanks
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Jan 1st, 2013, 10:59 | #13 |
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Four or 5 years ago I removed the alarm fuse on my V70. If I lock the vehicle with the remote the red alarm set indicator LED on the dash flashes as if the alarm weere set, but the alarm does not sound and the battery does not get drained.
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Thanks chaps! I'll get round to doing alarm siren eventually but this is piece of mind short-term. Was bugging the life out of me locking manually!
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Thank you Jim for that excellent piece of advice, and thanks to everyone else who chipped in with suggestions. It has been more than a week now since I got a pair of pliers and extracted that alarm siren fuse, F38. Was very nervous locking the car with the key fob the first few days, but the car has started every morning without hesitation, even at 0 degrees C. The light blinks on the dashboard as before, which is a great deterrent to thieves (I hope!) in London. So far, the longest the car has been left without being driven is around 15 hours. Haven't driven it at all since around 23:00 yesterday though, but will need to drive it tomorrow afternoon. I am not anticipating any problems. Great tip! P.S: I agree daphantom - using the key was not the most convenient option, as it sometimes meant I had to run around the car to lock it after having unloaded something from the other side! Just to add - in my case, prior to the removal of the fuse, the alarm siren had drained the battery in record time: I parked the car on a Saturday evening, went to drive it Sunday afternoon and it was stone dead after less than 24 hours! Brand new, heavy duty battery fitted last May.
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