Elise S3 alarm

[Dr_Rick]

My wife has reliably I formed me that the alarm has been going off a couple of times overnight. The car is stored in a garage and as present isn't used much as I now commute by coach.

Rather than incur any more wrath from inside or outside the house, any pointers?

[kambites]

I've found the easiest approach with my S2 is to not alarm the car when it's in the garage.

[Dr_Rick]

How's that? Mine locks itself after a while.

[kambites]

Hmm, obviously they've changed the central locking system then because mine neither locks nor alarms on its own.

[J__D]

Dr_Rick said:

How's that? Mine locks itself after a while.

My S3 doesn't lock itself / alarm doesn't arm on its own - only the immobiliser comes on automatically(which also has a flashing light).

[Dr_Rick]

I've had moments while I'm washing the car and set the alarm off when trying to get a particularly nasty bug off the front bumper. Solution; unlock the car with a single blip (drivers door unlocks, immobiliser off). THen I carry on for a bit and after a while I hear a clunk and the car central locks itself. I think it also happens if I double click and open both doors.

[kambites]

My Elise doesn't do that but if it's like the wife's Octavia it will remain primed to re-lock unless you open a door after which it will not re-lock or re-alarm unless you tell it to.

[Dr_Rick]

I think we may have had a potential tea-leaf having a nosey. Turns out both cars went off about 10 mins apart, the the Lotus again about 1 hr later.

Coppers are aware.