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Car Forum / Lexus Cars / September 2004Holy f.ck my Ls400 has an alarm
Little did I know... I come home late at night. Too lazy to open the garage, so I leave Ol' Blackie in the driveway. I'm in the kitchen preparing food when I hear a car alarm, the type where the horn honks in sequence with the lights flashing. I live in a pretty rural area, so not many alarms go off in my neck of the woods. And it sounded damn close, and it sounded damn like the Lexus horn, so I looked out the window and saw my car going berserk. I run outside with the key, and turn the lock in the driver door, which stops the broadcast. I look around, the car appears unmolested. No one was seen in the area. hmm... How do I shut the damn thing off? thanks, Doc Just because you didn't see anyone doesn't mean that someone didn't try to get in your car and was frightened away by the alarm. Other possibilities are wind (was it a windy night?) or someone brushed against the car. I don't know how to disable the alarm, but you might want to think twice about doing that. I suppose that the owner's manual would say how to do it, if the car was design to allow you to shut it off. > Little did I know... > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > thanks, > Doc > Little did I know... > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > thanks, > Doc There is a common problem on these, AFAIK there is a module somewhere which has a battery in it, the battery gets knackered and triggers false alarms, the dealer fix is to remove the module and chuck it I believe. The guy that told me of it is in UK. mrcheerful mrcheerful . wrote: >> Little did I know... >> [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > > mrcheerful "knackered"? Huh! WTF is knackered? Hahaha! If you don't want the alarm to go off, why bother to set it when you leave the vehicle? Especially if you live in a crime free rural area. <eg> >mrcheerful . wrote: >>> Little did I know... [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] >to go off, why bother to set it when you leave the vehicle? Especially if >you live in a crime free rural area. <eg> As I stated in the post, I had no idea the car even had an alarm.. My concern is this kinda thing will continue, i.e. when parked at the store, or even in my locked garage. Kinduva nuisance. Doc >>mrcheerful . wrote: >>>> Little did I know... [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Doc Knackered is a quaint English term for worn out. The alarm auto sets. The alarm going off will run the battery of the car down. mrcheerful Hey, watch the "French"! This is a family news group, damn it. - GRL > Little did I know... > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > thanks, > Doc the original poster is an idiot, can't expect more from him > Hey, watch the "French"! > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> thanks, >> Doc >Hey, watch the "French"! > >This is a family news group, damn it. > >- GRL Thanks for the warning, Mr. Vice President. I used such foreign language as an honest indication of my thoughts at that exact time. You can imagine my suprise, I'm certain. And you seem to be joking, if the next line was any indication. Any outwardly pious 'adults' who publicly condemn such bahavior as untoward are just strutting, cock-of-the-walk style, in vain attempts to seem humble and submissive to a higher power, when in reality are too ethnocentric and self-absorbed to realize one human speaking one word carries no such weight of sin, and, be it man or child, no amount of dung-tossing or knuckle-scraping or religous text-thumping will prove otherwise. To nutshell it, Steve Larson can go make love to himself. Doc >> Little did I know... >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> thanks, >> Doc yep, idiot >>Hey, watch the "French"! >> [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] >>> thanks, >>> Doc Idiots don't know any better. Jerks, on the other hand, simply don't understand (and apparently don't read their Owner's Manual, either...) > yep, idiot > [quoted text clipped - 40 lines] >>>>thanks, >>>>Doc Maybe Lexus should make a comic book version of the Owners Manual for idiots like this guy. no words, just pictures... > Maybe Lexus should make a comic book version of the Owners Manual for > idiots > like this guy. The easiest way to keep the alarm from going off is to not set it. How do I do this, you might be asking. Easy...just leave the key in the ignition. > Little did I know... > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > thanks, > Doc |
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