MK5 GTI Alarm on Battery disconnect
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Hello
I'm about to garage my 2008 GTI over winter and to avoid battery drain and depletion (like last year) I'm trying to leave the battery disconnected but car locked.
When I remove the negative terminal the alarm sounds, I gave it a minute before I reconnected the neg terminal as neighbours curtains were twitching. Pressing the buttons on the remote had absolutely no effect.
Does anyone know the correct procedure to disconnect the battery without this happening? There is nothing in the handbook of course.
I'm about to garage my 2008 GTI over winter and to avoid battery drain and depletion (like last year) I'm trying to leave the battery disconnected but car locked.
When I remove the negative terminal the alarm sounds, I gave it a minute before I reconnected the neg terminal as neighbours curtains were twitching. Pressing the buttons on the remote had absolutely no effect.
Does anyone know the correct procedure to disconnect the battery without this happening? There is nothing in the handbook of course.
Thanks for the reply, I hope its not that, it doesn't sound randomly when the battery is connected, just when I remove the neg terminal., I've seen comments on threads (which are never backed up) this is an anti theft precaution on the battery.
My dads TT had the alarm module issue a couple of years back and it would just sound randomly until replaced.
I've seen suggestions of having a key in the ignition to position 1 before disconnecting but surely this would then mean disconnecting with a load applied which doesn't make good sense to me.
2008 Mk5 GTI for reference.
My dads TT had the alarm module issue a couple of years back and it would just sound randomly until replaced.
I've seen suggestions of having a key in the ignition to position 1 before disconnecting but surely this would then mean disconnecting with a load applied which doesn't make good sense to me.
2008 Mk5 GTI for reference.
ab11 said:
Thanks for the reply, I hope its not that, it doesn't sound randomly when the battery is connected, just when I remove the neg terminal., I've seen comments on threads (which are never backed up) this is an anti theft precaution on the battery.
My dads TT had the alarm module issue a couple of years back and it would just sound randomly until replaced.
I've seen suggestions of having a key in the ignition to position 1 before disconnecting but surely this would then mean disconnecting with a load applied which doesn't make good sense to me.
2008 Mk5 GTI for reference.
Does this help? My dads TT had the alarm module issue a couple of years back and it would just sound randomly until replaced.
I've seen suggestions of having a key in the ignition to position 1 before disconnecting but surely this would then mean disconnecting with a load applied which doesn't make good sense to me.
2008 Mk5 GTI for reference.
https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic...
the-photographer said:
Does this help?
https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic...
Not really, saw that before and the last message was on: November 09, 2012, 10:58:52 amhttps://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic...
"Thanks for all your help.. gonna give this a try today so will let you know how it goes."
So either it worked and he couldn't be arsed to let others know or he died while removing the terminals with the ignition on so not really helpful.
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