Wind setting alarm off

phil675 · 4 Jan 2012 at 20:42

So I'm sitting here having to go up to the window every now and then because the wind is setting the car alarm off. Does anyone else get this?

paradigm · 4 Jan 2012 at 20:43

No?

I would suggest that you have a draught letting air through into the cabin, setting the sensors off. Do you get excessive wind noise whilst driving?

Skillmister · 4 Jan 2012 at 20:44

Dads went off last week but only once. Few up and down the street aswell

phil675 · 4 Jan 2012 at 20:45

paradigm said:
No?

I would suggest that you have a draught letting air through into the cabin, setting the sensors off. Do you get excessive wind noise whilst driving?

Yeah a little, I think its one of the rear windows, I wind them up tight but still seem a bit noisy. It's an MG ZS so the road noise is awful at all times anyway

mattyprice4004 · 5 Jan 2012 at 03:03

There's no sensor input on the ZS that would cause an alarm trigger from wind ingress.

It'll be a mis-adjusted door micro switch, or the wind pushing on the doors, moving them slightly even though the door is properly shut, that's enough to set off the volumetric alarm sensor trigger.

I miss my ZS and it's road noise

CaptainUnlikely · 5 Jan 2012 at 08:41

I get this with my ZS even with a light breeze if any window is the slightest bit open. Locking it with the key rather than the remote fob avoids it though, I think I read it disables the motion sensor.
As long as all the windows are all the way up though, never had a problem when locking it with the fob even in the high winds recently.

Overlag · 5 Jan 2012 at 09:43

phil675 said:
So I'm sitting here having to go up to the window every now and then because the wind is setting the car alarm off. Does anyone else get this?

my car alarm only goes off if im sitting in the car. You can strip the car of its bumpers, spoiler, skirts and wheels and most body panels without the alarm going off... Stupid Ford... :mad:

Rybo89 · 5 Jan 2012 at 10:05

Overlag said:
my car alarm only goes off if im sitting in the car. You can strip the car of its bumpers, spoiler, skirts and wheels and most body panels without the alarm going off... Stupid Ford...

And you still can't hear it at that.