Toad AI606 - 5 chirps on locking?

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My car alarm has just gone off randomly (nobody about) and when I came to re-lock the car the alarm chirped 5 times (normally only once on locking). Does anybody know what this means?

I went around the whole car afterwards and shut the frunk, engine cover and boot and re-locked the car no problem. It just seems odd that one of the pin switches would have caused the problem as none of them had been touched.

I have washed the car today and I'm wondering if the wiring may have got wet inside the frunk somehow...
 
Isn't the 5 chirps to say that the alarms been set off since it was last locked?
Pretty sure on my old car that had an aftermarket alarm that if it had set off it gave you the extra chirps to notify you that the alarm had been triggered whilst you'd been away.

Edit: Just realised you say it's happening when you lock it now. Pretty sure mine only did it when unlocking after it had sounded so probably not much help!
 
It should beep a few times when you unlock it to tell you its gone off, beeping when you lock suggests its thinks a door or somethings open.
 
dale1uk said:
Isn't the 5 chirps to say that the alarms been set off since it was last locked?
Pretty sure on my old car that had an aftermarket alarm that if it had set off it gave you the extra chirps to notify you that the alarm had been triggered whilst you'd been away.

Edit: Just realised you say it's happening when you lock it now. Pretty sure mine only did it when unlocking after it had sounded so probably not much help!
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yeah it chirps 3 times on the unlock to tell you that.
 
Does sound like there could be a short if it's only happened when you soaked the car. Not meaning to destroy the alarm system, but try soaking the car again, see if it has the same result. :)

Really strange though, another option would be to email/phone Toad and see what they say about it.

InvG
 
andi said:
It should beep a few times when you unlock it to tell you its gone off, beeping when you lock suggests its thinks a door or somethings open.
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yup, I think one of the pin switches may be a bit dodgey. If it happens again I'll shut things one at a time to see what's up. Just a bit concerning that it might go off when I'm away from it for no reason and annoy the nrighbours!
 
InvaderGIR said:
Does sound like there could be a short if it's only happened when you soaked the car. Not meaning to destroy the alarm system, but try soaking the car again, see if it has the same result. :)

Really strange though, another option would be to email/phone Toad and see what they say about it.

InvG
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I'm giving it a big clean tomorrow do we'll see
 
I have that alarm and 5 chirps does indeed mean a door/boot/bonnet sensor is still open so it can't arm properly. I think if you read the manual it tells you what LED flashes correspond to which sensor it thinks isn't closed, unless that's just for after the alarm is triggered, I can't remember exactly.
 
Again? Looks rather clean in your other thread. :)

Thinking about it though, the catch thingies sound more likely...but then I know nothing on alarms, only had a dodgy one on a 306, all other cars I've owned haven't had any. :p

InvG
 
Yeah it is shiny, but no way clean.
Tomorrow is the big day for cleaning it, up at 7am to start!
 
FFS.

It's just gone off again for absolutely no reason at all...the weird thing is that it's going off with the regualar alarm too, if the pin switches are activated or the inside is disturbed then the TOAD siren goes off but not the "horn" one that comes as standard.

I've just gone and stopped it using the fob and then locked it with the key, but now it's even going off when it's locked on the key (the standard alarm only though, not the TOAD one).

What the hell is going on?
 
5 chirps when you arm means that one of the push pin switches has not been closed/activated properly. I had problems with my bonnet switch -- you could try manually pushing it down then arming to see if it arms with just the 2 beeps

if the alarm goes off with no apparent reason then one of the motion/microwave sensors could be set too being too sensitive. Does this coincide with heavy goods vehicles going past or ppl with loud exhausts? any chance a cat jumped onto your car?

the thing with the ai606 is that it can learn false triggers if several occur at a time.. therefore it should just stop by itself. failing that id take it to a toad dealer to look at. they normally come with a lifetime warranty (as long as you were *** original owner when it was fitted).
 
Phantom said:
5 chirps when you arm means that one of the push pin switches has not been closed/activated properly. I had problems with my bonnet switch -- you could try manually pushing it down then arming to see if it arms with just the 2 beeps

if the alarm goes off with no apparent reason then one of the motion/microwave sensors could be set too being too sensitive. Does this coincide with heavy goods vehicles going past or ppl with loud exhausts? any chance a cat jumped onto your car?

the thing with the ai606 is that it can learn false triggers if several occur at a time.. therefore it should just stop by itself. failing that id take it to a toad dealer to look at. they normally come with a lifetime warranty (as long as you were *** original owner when it was fitted).
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It's only been fitted for about 3 weeks so I'll call the fitter back to sort it.
Nothing has gone near the car as far as I know and it's in a really quiet road tucked by the garage behind my mum's car.

I'm just concerned that the standard alarm started going off on it's own when I locked it on the key. I'm starting to think that the TOAD alarm was set off by the standard one maybe?...but that wouldn't explain the 5 chirps...it's all very odd and annoying that i've spent this much on an alarm that currently isn't working :(
 
this was just happened to me, so i googled it and found this... wondered why my car kept chirping 5 times when alarming, then alarm kept going off.

found out it was the bonnet bin, was a bit dirty, cleaned, now ok :D thanks guys
 
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