On Dec 6, 4:10 pm, TonyInClearwater <tonyinclearwa...@yahoo.com>
wrote:

One or more of your ground points is rusted out and making the alarm
flaky. dis-connect the battery and thoroughly clean all ground points.
Get a metal toothbrush and brush the rust away.
There's 2 ground points I can think of off the top of my head: follow
the negative battery cable from the battery to the motor. At one point
in between it also connects to the body. Then there's the connections
from the alternator. OK maybe that's 3. There's a few more but I can't
think of them. Find 'em, clean em. Your car will be good.

CD

Hi again:

The Interstate was the first mistake, they always over rate their cold
craning amps, Auto Zone and Wal Mart have the best batteries.

Now, let's try to isolate this problem:

1- Check the battery cables all the way down, carefully by sliding your
fingers over the insulation. If you feel any bumps, the cable is corroding
from inside out. Do that to both cables, negative and positive and also any
wires near the battery. I would say that might be your problem.

2- Check all of your grounds, especially the ones to the engine and the
body.

I have a feeling that is where your problem might be.

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me directly.

I hope this helps,

RK

If I were you, I wouldn't replace something just because someone said so...
because you will end up replacing everything in your car eventually.  I
recommend mounting a $1-$2 Volt meter(get it from Harbor Freight), plug it
in your cigarette socket.  When alarm went off, check the voltage against
the moment you left your car.  Good battery should be in between 12V -
12.4V.  11.45V is not a good sign.

I suspect your proximity sensor or a motion sensor maybe tilting due to it
getting hit previously, its wrong position in addition to gravity could
cause your sensor to be extra sensitive.  I know my Mercedes has this motion
sensor because when I lift my front wheel, its alarm went off.  So I think
this theory might be associated with your car.

Good luck.

I apprecaite all the repiles to my previous post and I am gald this
seems to have been of some benefit to the 'Maxima Community'.

Here is a brief recap and an update on my situaiton;

The OEM alarm or Anti-Theft system on my 1996 Maxima seems to be going
off for no reason. The horn starts blowing, the lights flash.

I had originally stated that this seems to happen the same time every
day. That is no longer the case. It seems that was just a coincidence
for the first two days that it happened.

In my original post I also neglected to include that the car had just
been painted nad had some body work done.
A few days after the body work was done I started having problems with
the power window and door lock on the passenger side front door.
I took the car back to the body shop that did the work and the guy
took off the interior door panel and found where shop had left the
plug kind of hanging that connects the power door lock and window
controls.
This leads me to believe they my have also left some other 'bad
connections'. I talked to the owner of the body shop and he says he
will help me find the bad connection. I hope that what ne means by
that is that we will remove each of the door panels and check each of
the connectoins at each of the points that could trigger the alarm
system.

I have a diagram that someone sent me showing the layout of the anti-
theft system and where all these points or connections are.

New concerns, new questions;

A couple nights ago, the starter would not engage upon turning the
key. In some of the reading I have done on Maxima Anti-Theft problems
I have seen this.

In the event that this problem does not magically disappear by itself
I am open to any feedback, advice, suggestions, Etc.

QUESTOIN...

When the alarm goes off on these Maximas, is there anywhere that
information is kept on which trigger-point set the alarm off?

I am in hopes that it is stored in the 'Brain' or the 'Central
Computer' of the Anti-theft system.

If it is not stored, is there any device that I can 'plug-in' to the
Anti-theft system that will record this info?

Unfortunately, I think this question is a long-shot, but I had to ask
it. Any good news on this one certainly apprecaited.