Ferry crossing
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Maersk

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304 posts

233 months

Monday 3rd March 2014
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So I have a 5 hour ferry crossing to Le Mans for the first time this year. What do you guys usually do with the cars alarms. Do you leave them unlocked or risk the flat battery after it's been going of for 5 hours ?

Cheers

Steve

ShiDevil

2,293 posts

200 months

Monday 3rd March 2014
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You can lock and disable the alarm I believe.

mikal83

5,340 posts

278 months

Monday 3rd March 2014
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5 hrs to flatten your battery......crikey, you need a new battery mate

Maersk

Original Poster:

304 posts

233 months

Monday 3rd March 2014
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Fair enough am I'm being over cautious then

Colin RedGriff

2,541 posts

283 months

Monday 3rd March 2014
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I think the ferry companies ask you not to alarm your car during the crossing.

MethylatedSpirit

2,063 posts

162 months

Monday 3rd March 2014
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Take everything of value out and leave it unlocked? It aint going anywhere fast.

Getsis

1,549 posts

242 months

Tuesday 4th March 2014
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I leave it unlocked, no-one is allowed on the car deck after sailing.

BuzzBillsberry

1,306 posts

257 months

Tuesday 4th March 2014
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As Getsis says theres no one aloud on the car deck once the ship is ready to depart I've left the westfield with no hood on and Items left in the car even the autocom head phones hooked over the backs of the seats and never had an issue in the 6 years I took it to Le-Mans as for the Tamora I leave the hood up and lock it.


Buzz

TimJM

1,497 posts

236 months

Tuesday 4th March 2014
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Take a look in the manual, you should have a dog mode.

From the Cerbera manual (not sure if the Tuscan is the same):
Dog Mode - Locking the doors without arming the alarm.
1. Set window height before leaving the car.
2. Open a door.
3. Press and hold status led button for more than 5 seconds, this will result in the led flashing rapidly to indicate you are in the dog mode.
4. Once the led is flashing rapidly the doors can be shut. They will then be locked. The boot will also lock.
5. To override this mode from outside the car - arm and then disarm the alarm.

Mr Cerbera

5,149 posts

256 months

Tuesday 4th March 2014
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We fell about last year when we went down to our cabin and the hold was full of Porkers with their alarms going off.

Mad Mark

2,345 posts

258 months

Tuesday 4th March 2014
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TimJM said:
Take a look in the manual, you should have a dog mode.

From the Cerbera manual (not sure if the Tuscan is the same):
Dog Mode - Locking the doors without arming the alarm.
1. Set window height before leaving the car.
2. Open a door.
3. Press and hold status led button for more than 5 seconds, this will result in the led flashing rapidly to indicate you are in the dog mode.
4. Once the led is flashing rapidly the doors can be shut. They will then be locked. The boot will also lock.
5. To override this mode from outside the car - arm and then disarm the alarm.
I did not know this! Might have to give it a try. Not that I Own a dog and even if I did it would never be let in the Cerbera lol But it still might come in useful one day.
Cheers Tim

m60ddy

631 posts

238 months

Tuesday 4th March 2014
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Mad Mark said:
TimJM said:
Take a look in the manual, you should have a dog mode.

From the Cerbera manual (not sure if the Tuscan is the same):
Dog Mode - Locking the doors without arming the alarm.
1. Set window height before leaving the car.
2. Open a door.
3. Press and hold status led button for more than 5 seconds, this will result in the led flashing rapidly to indicate you are in the dog mode.
4. Once the led is flashing rapidly the doors can be shut. They will then be locked. The boot will also lock.
5. To override this mode from outside the car - arm and then disarm the alarm.
I did not know this! Might have to give it a try. Not that I Own a dog and even if I did it would never be let in the Cerbera lol But it still might come in useful one day.
Cheers Tim
This could be good for those summer days when you want to leave a window slightly open to allow excess hot air out rather than to act as a green house. Like the idea of this working.

m60ddy

631 posts

238 months

Tuesday 4th March 2014
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Mad Mark said:
TimJM said:
Take a look in the manual, you should have a dog mode.

From the Cerbera manual (not sure if the Tuscan is the same):
Dog Mode - Locking the doors without arming the alarm.
1. Set window height before leaving the car.
2. Open a door.
3. Press and hold status led button for more than 5 seconds, this will result in the led flashing rapidly to indicate you are in the dog mode.
4. Once the led is flashing rapidly the doors can be shut. They will then be locked. The boot will also lock.
5. To override this mode from outside the car - arm and then disarm the alarm.
I did not know this! Might have to give it a try. Not that I Own a dog and even if I did it would never be let in the Cerbera lol But it still might come in useful one day.
Cheers Tim
This could be good for those summer days when you want to leave a window slightly open to allow excess hot air out rather than to act as a green house. Like the idea of this working.

More Steam

698 posts

216 months

Tuesday 4th March 2014
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I take the Tuscan on ferries fairly regularly West Scotland and just lock it. It's never been an issue. If you want to leave it open it should be OK. You'll probably find the car deck is out of bounds during the crossing.

ChrisnChris

1,424 posts

248 months

Wednesday 5th March 2014
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Copied from a topic I started in 2007 ish....sorry don't know how to link to the topic.............

I don't know if this has been posted before, I did a quick search but found nothing, so here is a word of warning for all you intrepid travelers intending to use a cross channel ferry.

We had a brief visit to France last week. Boarded the ferry ok from Dover, went in with the lorries, didn't want to risk the ramps. All ok but when I went to unlock the car (Tuscan).......nothing, no response from the key fob. We were right at the front in the middle & most of the lorries had a job squeezing past.
A crew member from the bridge came down & after I explained what the problem was....couldn't get in the car, he suggested that the ship's radar might have interfered with the immobilizer & shut it down said it had happened before to 'one of those'. Apparently the owner had it fork lifted off the ferry
I had to break in, using the prescribed method, alarm going full blast, put the immobilizer fob into the slot, drove about 400yds, stopped the car, unlocked it from the inside, locked & unlocked it again just to make sure, put the bits back together & off we went.
I'll leave you to guess what we did on the way back!!

Had a great time in France........the Tuscan was...well, you know cloud9


blueg33

45,599 posts

250 months

Wednesday 5th March 2014
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I never locked the Tuscan on a ferry, its not like any one is going to drive off with it. I just dont leave any valuables in it.

AutoAndy

2,270 posts

241 months

Wednesday 5th March 2014
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..as an excuse to post a pic...we were quite relaxed about things on the IOW ferry.. wink


Guillotine

5,516 posts

290 months

Wednesday 5th March 2014
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Maersk said:
Fair enough am I'm being over cautious then
No you're not, when we used to run tours around the EU, flat batteries off the Channel ferries was our first problem. Especially Cerbs, but not just TVRs.
Only a 1.5Hr crossing!

TURN THEM OFF! Its not like anyones going to nick it...and the decks are locked too.

Andy TVRMonster

QBee

22,289 posts

170 months

Wednesday 5th March 2014
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Anything in the boot is safe. How would a thief get in there? Don't all TVRs need the keys for boot access, or is that only Chims and Grffs?

Mark.

11,104 posts

302 months

Wednesday 5th March 2014
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nono Not on the Cerb, and perhaps the Tuscan