ok aside from taking out the fuse and disabling all the power locks

what can i do to disable the alarm

this is the first time its rained since i've had my car, and driven in the rain. and the alarm keeps going off. so i want to just disable it rather than wonder where the short or whatever is causing this is located

its 3 in the morning here and it keeps waking everyone up and the landlords. not cool

for now ill take the fuse out and lock manually


97SE

 

4th gens do not have an alarm. do you have an aftermarket unit? if so find the sensor and lower its sensitivity.

 

Excuse me? I do lol

 

yeah they do haha even my 95 had one

 

My 95 and 97 have factory alarms

 

My 95GLE has a factory alarm...

 

SOLVED: or rather...temp fix/bypass method.

Under the hood, there is a "button type" of switch. It's located right at the front driver side of the car on top of the upper rad support. It's literally sitting on top of the headlight almost. There are two 10mm bolts holding it on. Unbolt those two, and leave the switch sitting in the engine bay near the headlight (somewhere out of the way). DO NOT disconnect the wires that run to it.

Doing this will "fool" the stock alarm into thinking that the hood is opened...therefore it will not arm the alarm system when you lock the car.

 

Awww...you fixed it. I was gonna say that your rain sensor was set too high!

 

ahaha :P

 

 

keyless entery and panic button is not alarm...

 

Mentioning the hood switch reminds me of something I read about the cars. I kind of think it might have been a TSB, maybe not. But it was about the fact that the hood switch height adjustment was too low, too close to the switch operating point and gusts of wind could wiggle the hood and set off the alarm.

 

I'm pretty sure we all know the difference between a panic button and an alarm.. I have a factory alarm on my 96, but I don't think my 97 does..

 

if you smash out the window on an equipped 4th gen and unlock the door from the inside, an alarm will sound.

 

An alarm will go off if the window is smashed and the hood or trunk is oppened as well.

 

I don't think the factory 4th gen alarm has a window shock sensor or any other kind of shock sensor. My I30 was broken into with the alarm armed and it never once went off when they broke my side window because they didn't unlock the door and open it. They just reached in through the broken window and grabbed what they could. The doors were still locked and alarm was still armed when I found my car broken into.

 

Yes i know that but that does not do any prevention. This is not a real "alarm".

4th gen's do not have a shock or glass sensor from what i know

95-98's are **** poor in preventing theft. didnt take till 99 for immobilizers to come into play.

 

Very few cars come with impact sensors on the factory alarm...almost none of them.

 

Immobilizers help, but not as much as you might imagine. Unfortunately, thieves just tow the car away and strip them somewhere safer. I used to tell customers at the shop I worked at that I could install the best alarm in the world on their car....but nothing beats good insurance.

 

They do not. I was just saying if the break the glass then pop your hood, trunk or door lock the alarm will go off.

I wonder what would happen if the alarm is armed and someone tries to start the car. I'll have to try that one day.

 

the car will not crank, and alarm would go off. (if say the window was rolled down and the thief hopped thru the window, bypassing having to unlock the door to make the alarm go off.

 

Excuse me, but my 4th gen does. NOT aftermarket. If someone tries to break in by force, alarm goes off, I've done it to test it out and it works, therefor its an alarm. Not only does it lock/unlocks the doors but it can also lower down my front windows as I am walking towards the car and open my trunk