I still am not one hundred percent conclusive on the symptoms/causes but here is this situation:
When I don’t drive my car for about a day, and I’m not sure if this happens when I arm it or not, but when I open the driver door after a day, it makes this very strange quiet droning type noise, that is not a normal alarm sound. it only last a few seconds, but when I get in my car, my CD player settings, and clock reset as if they battery had been disconnected.
This has happened three times now. This morning my car was armed in my garage and it did not do it (car had been there awhile), so right now I’m thinking it is when I do not lock it. It’s an Alpine alarm system (same as Dan’s, I believe), and it definitely happens when I open the driver side door. Might be related to my failing door sensor.
Interesting. Is it coming from your alarm, or your stereo? If it’s from the stereo, I know of a cause.
When you say that you open the door, have you disarmed the alarm? Is it going into alarm? Who did the alarm install? It almost sounds like they might have tapped into the wrong wire.
I’ll have to think about this one for a while. :think:
Originally posted by Steven Kephart
[B]Interesting. Is it coming from your alarm, or your stereo? If it’s from the stereo, I know of a cause.
When you say that you open the door, have you disarmed the alarm? Is it going into alarm? Who did the alarm install? It almost sounds like they might have tapped into the wrong wire.
I’ll have to think about this one for a while. :think: [/B]
It definitely sounds like its coming from my alarm or back up siren but I have had the current stereo in my car since November and the Alarm for much longer.
Well the Alarm was installed by Car Toys in '99. I have had the car since May of 2002, and the Alarm only lost its programming once. So if the alarm and stereo have been working fine for so long, I would assume this started happening due to some battery/coldness issue or something.
I think the best thing to do is take it down to Car Toys and let them look at it. If your alarm is malfunctioning, and it has a lifetime warranty on it and the install (which it should), then let them deal with it. That’s what you paid for.
Cool that. Please let me know what the problem really is when it gets fixed. I am curious. That also depends on if they actually tell you what is wrong. They might be quiet about install mishaps.