Alarm on the move

[simpo one]

I've heard of this happening with a Cerbera but yesterday it happened to me! Went into Homebase for 10 mins, came out and drove off as normal. Shortly afterwards I thought I saw the green LED in front of me flash (though it might have been the sun) - but then I saw that the panic central locking button was activated as the green light next to it was on. Pressed it, thinking it might reset itself, and a few seconds later the alarm went off as I was driving along! I parked up, got out, locked the car with the rmeote, unlocked it again, used the widget just to be on the safe side, and now it's fine. Do you think the system was triggered by someone while I was in the store? The car looked perfectly normal when I got back to it, no flashing lights etc.

[simpo one]

Well at least I got rid of that embarassing '0'...

[sipow]

What would worry me is that u can still drive the car with the alarm going off!!!!
Did the immobilser activate as well.

Simon

[Jimbo500]

This happened me driving one Saturday afternoon through a crowded street in central Amsterdam a few months back. Needless to say quite a few lads sitting outside bars helped to point out that it was going off too! And as you say, it was worrying that the car just kept on driving, immobiliser didn't seem to do anything! I stopped, got out, locked the car, unlocked, started her up, all was back to normal and drove away. Haven't a clue why it happened but so far it was a once off. Mind you my face still goes red thinking about it......I can still hear the jeers!

[simpo one]

Don't be embarrassed - you can pretend you're a police car on a high speed chase :-)

Maybe the immobiliser doesn't activate, just the siren? Presumably if it did activate, the engine would cut out, so I'm rather glad it didn't.

I'm a bit cynical about hi-tech alarms. I'm sure they're needed for insurance and dodgy areas, but the only people who've ever been foiled by them and watched their car go off on a low loader - are the owners!