Alarm wont stop going off! Help please

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My 2000 Celica Gen 7 engine is turned on on my drive at the moment as my alarm just started going off randomly!

I can get it to stop by turning the engine on as it is now, but I dont want to turn it off in case it goes off again!

Can anyone please help?
 
^^ Yep. Go round & Open & Close every door/Boot & Bonnet & make sure All your windows are shut tight.
 
k done all that. they all seemed to be shut anyway though.

thanks for the fast replies.

i've called RAC who should be here in <30 mins so i'll wait to see what they say.

surely disconnecting the battery would be too easy for theives to do though? sure that would work?
 
stokefan said:
k done all that. they all seemed to be shut anyway though.

thanks for the fast replies.

i've called RAC who should be here in <30 mins so i'll wait to see what they say.

surely disconnecting the battery would be too easy for theives to do though? sure that would work?
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Yes, they aren't going to get very far with the battery disconnected are they.
 
stokefan said:
k done all that. they all seemed to be shut anyway though.

thanks for the fast replies.

i've called RAC who should be here in <30 mins so i'll wait to see what they say.

surely disconnecting the battery would be too easy for theives to do though? sure that would work?
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It should do. Even theives won't get far without a battery connected.
 
My old Merc did this after 12 years of successful remote alarm-ment...only happened after I got the windscreen changed. Could never get to the bottom of it so we've ended up just not using the remote, we just lock the car by turning the key.

Actually while I'm writing - we left the car at a local airport car park a few months back, nobody ever told the poor buggers who kept it that the remote shouldn't be used. Cue us coming out of the airport a week later, phoning to get the car driven to us:
"Yeah it's a black old-shape Mercedes"...
"Oh so it's YOU who owns this car. We had to keep that blasted thing away round the back of the yard cos that alarm just would not shut up"
:D
 
Clarkey said:
Yes, they aren't going to get very far with the battery disconnected are they.
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The RAC man said he is pretty sure there will be a backup battery for my alarm, so even if the battery was disconnected the siren would still sound - can anyone advise further based on that please?:confused:
 
How about disconnecting the battery to see what happens. It will take about 10 seconds.

Or why not just drive to a Toyota garage where they will be able to see what is setting it off.
 
Wicksta said:
How about disconnecting the battery to see what happens. It will take about 10 seconds.

Or why not just drive to a Toyota garage where they will be able to see what is setting it off.
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suppose. They want £52 for just half an hour of diagnosis on it and don't promise to find anything though - just grates on me at quite how much that is when they might not sort it.
 
nah afraid not according to the RAC guy anyway. he said because its likely to be a Thatcham Cat 1 alarm, it won't be easy to turn off. Its likely that there will be a backup battery circuit, and it wont be easy to find under the bonnet.
 
Isn't it only the siren that is battery backed up though? I reckon if you remove the battery while the alarm isn't going off then you'll be ok.

I don't know how good Toyota diagnosis is, but on my BMW they can see which sensor has set the alarm off.
 
As a temporary measure you could always stuff some rags or something similar around the siren to muffle it a bit.
 
When I got the RAC out when mine did that, the chap crawled under the car and unplugged the speaker so it just sat there flashing to itself...
 
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