Self inflicted alarm problem
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I sat in my Griffith and sat on the keys as I was interrogating the glove box catch.
Passenger door was open.
Suddenly, the alarm went off. Turned it off with the alarm fob.
No problems I thought.
When done, I pressed the lock button and the car locked itself as expected.
After about 30 seconds the alarm made a quiet pip. Prior to the sitting on the key every time I locked the car and the alarm set it made a louder pippy pip pip.
What have I done?
Put it in a different mode accidentally?
How do I get it back onto full duty and get the puppy pip pip back?
Passenger door was open.
Suddenly, the alarm went off. Turned it off with the alarm fob.
No problems I thought.
When done, I pressed the lock button and the car locked itself as expected.
After about 30 seconds the alarm made a quiet pip. Prior to the sitting on the key every time I locked the car and the alarm set it made a louder pippy pip pip.
What have I done?
Put it in a different mode accidentally?
How do I get it back onto full duty and get the puppy pip pip back?
The meta alarm should blip once.
Extra blips normally suggests either doors bonnet or boot are open.
Try disconnecting battery for a few mins, reconnect and after closing car up lock/ unlock car using the key fob. Alarm should now blip once only.
Abacus alarms are well worth calling just to confirm what the alarms doing if your getting extra blips.
Make sure your battery is fully charged as a below par battery can cause problems.
Hope some of that helps.
Extra blips normally suggests either doors bonnet or boot are open.
Try disconnecting battery for a few mins, reconnect and after closing car up lock/ unlock car using the key fob. Alarm should now blip once only.
Abacus alarms are well worth calling just to confirm what the alarms doing if your getting extra blips.
Make sure your battery is fully charged as a below par battery can cause problems.
Hope some of that helps.
Edited by Classic Chim on Wednesday 19th July 09:20
Prior to said sitting on the keys.....
Get out of car. Close door/doors, press lock (car locked doors etc..... indicators flashed when the doors locked then appx 30 seconds later, beepy beep beep as to indicate full arming complete.
Now, lock doors, indicators flash, 30 seconds later quiet single beep.
Sometings changed.
At least the cars locking.
Get out of car. Close door/doors, press lock (car locked doors etc..... indicators flashed when the doors locked then appx 30 seconds later, beepy beep beep as to indicate full arming complete.
Now, lock doors, indicators flash, 30 seconds later quiet single beep.
Sometings changed.
At least the cars locking.
Earlier cars have a punched piece of rubber adhered to the door that then ensures that the interior/alarm switch opens correctly (they fall/get knocked off over time), later cars have a little piece of plastic that is pop riveted on...(there is a 'test' that you can do that will check this, but not on an open forum) so check the door switch operation. A@
Harvy500 said:
Prior to said sitting on the keys.....
Get out of car. Close door/doors, press lock (car locked doors etc..... indicators flashed when the doors locked then appx 30 seconds later, beepy beep beep as to indicate full arming complete.
Now, lock doors, indicators flash, 30 seconds later quiet single beep.
Sometings changed.
At least the cars locking.
My understanding is you should lock the car and instantly hear one blip to confirm it’s armed. Get out of car. Close door/doors, press lock (car locked doors etc..... indicators flashed when the doors locked then appx 30 seconds later, beepy beep beep as to indicate full arming complete.
Now, lock doors, indicators flash, 30 seconds later quiet single beep.
Sometings changed.
At least the cars locking.
No other blips should occur.
3 blips normally suggests at least one sensor or more are not being triggered.
Ive never had a delayed blip.
Abacus alarms no longer supply some parts of the Meta system but they have extensive knowledge of the alarm and it’s use on TVR cars.
They know in detail what all these blipping signals suggest.
Calling them might be well worth 5 mins of your time.
Thanks for the advice.
To be honest, when I changed the wiper relay at the weekend (my wipers now operate as they should) I saw the battery terminals and thought they could do with a clean up.
I will do that which means the battery will be disconnected for a little while.
Can't see that's going to do any harm.
As for the door switch things. Fairly sure they're working ok but I'll check.
Just a bit weird that the lock confrontation sound has changed.
Honestly don't know if it was not quite right before and now it's operating correctly or the other way round.
As I said, I've only had this car a month (if that).
Already I've fixed many little niggles. The list is getting smaller but I think quite honestly my list of to do's was not as complete as I thought.
To be honest, when I changed the wiper relay at the weekend (my wipers now operate as they should) I saw the battery terminals and thought they could do with a clean up.
I will do that which means the battery will be disconnected for a little while.
Can't see that's going to do any harm.
As for the door switch things. Fairly sure they're working ok but I'll check.
Just a bit weird that the lock confrontation sound has changed.
Honestly don't know if it was not quite right before and now it's operating correctly or the other way round.
As I said, I've only had this car a month (if that).
Already I've fixed many little niggles. The list is getting smaller but I think quite honestly my list of to do's was not as complete as I thought.
Classic Chim said:
5.0ltr said:
It should emit a quiet beep after 30 seconds when fully armed. David at HF Solutions is happy to help on the phone if still needed.
Is this correct for the later version and yes calling David sounds like a good idea. It emits a minor peep after 25-30 seconds, usually unheard as I have walked away by then. It is not loud anyway.
Carl Baker put me onto this when he worked on the alarm some years ago.
Well, it seems whatever happened yesterday has fixed it and it's now working as it should.
I'll have it looked at by David as he offers an upgrade that allows the boot to be opened via the fob not meaning I've got to put the keys in, turn on the ignition and then open the boot. (Mild pain).
I'll have it looked at by David as he offers an upgrade that allows the boot to be opened via the fob not meaning I've got to put the keys in, turn on the ignition and then open the boot. (Mild pain).
If the alarm operates the same as a Chim, the red alarm light on the dash should flash rapidly for 30secs whilst it arms , then change to the slow 3 sec flash once armed.
I got fooled by the central locking button the other week , accidently pressed it from outside the car . When the door won't open , but I could hear a solenoid I through it was broke. My man then told me 2 solenoids on my Chim, one to engage the lock and one to actually lock. The central locking disengages the 2nd one , so opening on the knob in the car works but the button doesn't under the mirror. There was a fault in that the contact needed cleaning, so turning the knob wasn't releasing the engage mechanism . So the only way to reset was arm/unarm the car.... now sorted with a bit contact leaner spray on the central knob, and my knob light works too
Different years of Chim work differently... so I don't know about your Griff :
I got fooled by the central locking button the other week , accidently pressed it from outside the car . When the door won't open , but I could hear a solenoid I through it was broke. My man then told me 2 solenoids on my Chim, one to engage the lock and one to actually lock. The central locking disengages the 2nd one , so opening on the knob in the car works but the button doesn't under the mirror. There was a fault in that the contact needed cleaning, so turning the knob wasn't releasing the engage mechanism . So the only way to reset was arm/unarm the car.... now sorted with a bit contact leaner spray on the central knob, and my knob light works too
Different years of Chim work differently... so I don't know about your Griff :
Edited by glow worm on Wednesday 19th July 11:34
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