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Old Aug 8, 2007 | 06:54 PM
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'01 Avant, the alarm randomly goes off, windows open, windows closed, within and out of remote distance, remote in or out of reach, completely randomly. It happens at home with no vibrations around, and of course elsewhere, but even with the interior motion sensors off in my driveway (1/4 mile long), it will go off randomly.

Why????
 
Old Aug 8, 2007 | 06:58 PM
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im sure you can turn the internal detectors off or lower there impedance
 
Old Aug 8, 2007 | 07:08 PM
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I turned them off. Still goes off randomly.
 
Old Aug 8, 2007 | 07:10 PM
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you have a battery drain problem by the sound of it
 
Old Aug 8, 2007 | 07:18 PM
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Whaddya mean? Like something's lowering the battery voltage as the car is sitting?
 
Old Aug 8, 2007 | 08:52 PM
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same thing happened to my car when i first got it, but after a couple weeks it just stopped for some reason, how long have u had the car?
 
Old Aug 8, 2007 | 09:02 PM
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3 weeks. Started a week ago.
 
Old Aug 8, 2007 | 10:29 PM
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Hmm, I've just noticed this too. It happened yesterday. It was really hot outside so I had the front windows down about 2 inches and the sunroof cracked open a little to let some heat dissipate. The alarm went off probably 8 different times. Today, nothing. Same spot it sat in and everything.

So how do I go about turning off the interior detectors??
 
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 03:24 AM
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My Avant has a button on the b-pillar, a foot upfrom the interior floor on the driver side.

Mine still goes off, even with that button enabled, and I drove my RX-7 (loud) up next to it and revved it up, and it wouldn't set it off.

What is the battery drain deal?
 
Old Aug 9, 2007 | 05:42 AM
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get an exorcist LOL
 



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