rmstoico

hey guys im back! been a while!

ok i know holding the trunk and lock button shuts off the siren, howeever, does it disable the security system or just shut down the siren? anyone know how to completely disengage the alarm permanently? were installing a new alarm because his factory alarm is going off in the night, and my guess is that when the doors lock the alarm is activated. thanks in advance.

97BlackAckCL

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Most people hook their AM alarms into their stock alarms. holding the buttons down just turns off the chirp. U gotta do a lot more to disable the alarm, most people just bypass it and run the wires into the brain of the AM alarm

InstallerJohn

Find out what's making the factory go off in the first place- the factory alarm cant be completely disabled- you can ground out the trunk pin input and that will make it not arm- but the door locks and door pins function through the alarm so you really have to keep it in tact. Most likely whatever is causing the factory to go off will cause the aftermarket to go off as well. (ie faulty doorpin) and if there actually is a problem with the factory you would want to take care of it so it doesn't cause problems down the road. I've posted instructions on how exactly to make the alarm not arm before- do a search for the thread if ya wanna.

AznX TL

what about reactivating? mine doesnt go off when i hit panic, only the headlights and corners blink

SiGye

I never knew you could deactivate the chirp by holding down all the buttons.. I tried that and it didn't work. Am I missing something?

Jamz

you don't hold down ALL the buttons - just the trunk & lock buttons

then if/when you want to change it back - trunk & lock again

melo72

Holding down the panic should make the siren go off no matter what. It doesn't matter if you have the chirp on or off. Holding down the lock/ unlock buttons allows you to toggle between turning on / off the chrip of the alarm siren when you go to set/ unset the alarm.

If you live in a quiet residential area, you may not want the chirping sounds to go off when your coming home late, so you have the option to turn it off.

To turn it back on, just do the same thing, hold down the 2 buttons until the alarm chrips telling you it's activated.

skeeeeet

Sounds like someone cut the alarm's siren already. Thats what im about to do. Nothing is worse than having you car towed because your alarm goes off in the middle of the night for no reason because it wont shut off and you don't know becuase you're too far away to hear it.

LOL, Im at work and It just went off right now.