2000 Golf alarm problem

Is your battery low ?


Randy
http://members.aol.com/rsmeiner

Have you got a silly swinging air freshener mounted on the rear view mirror?

Has the car got too much water in it?

Are you in the correct newsgroup?

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 08:12:15 -0000, "Neil"


it has always been acceptable when a *regular* ramva poster posts
questions(OT) about thier watercooled cars...why is it different for
Pete?
JT

Thanks for the help guys.  Battery OK, no swinging air fresheners, but
the local VW dealer did say something about posssibly water getting in
somewhere at the tailgate.  Asked if the rear wipers were still
working. Said water could be shorting the sensor.  Some improvement
today - no rain.  Could be that, but I don't quite follow what the
garage was on about.  Sorry if wrong newsgroup - didn't mean to upset
anyone.

Peter

Some times if the battery is down a little bit, it triggers false
alarms.  Things that can drain the battery a little bit are digital
clocks,  digital stereos and even the alarm systems.

Randy
http://members.aol.com/rsmeiner

Didnt know he was a regular poster to here, and subject wasnt labelled Off
Topic. was merely advising that the correct newsgroup would be more likely
to illicit a good conclusion.

Sorry for being helpful

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:07:23 -0000, "Neil"


i was mistaken on who the original poster was....sorry for that, but i
do beg to differ on the "sorry for being helpful" part....had your
original post sounded like this one it would have been more "helpful"
but ">Have you got a silly swinging air freshener mounted on the rear
view mirror?

Has the car got too much water in it?

Are you in the correct newsgroup?"

is far from "helpful"...
JT

On 06 Feb 2004 00:34:48 GMT, littlevwgoddess@aol.com (Kidd Andersson)
ran around screaming and yelling:


hehe...i won't killfile you....but your "crusade" to make me a more
marketable product is doomed to fail...
JT(who's not so cute)

Do you park the car in a garage?

Make sure that you lock the car and arm the alarm system. The car uses
something called a CAN Data Bus (Controller Area Network). If there is no
signal that the alarm is armed, the control modules will not go into a
"sleep" mode, or low power consumption. Frequently happens when cars are
parked in a garage at home.

- Peter


mirror?

He didn't mark the post as OT.

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:22:54 -0400, "Karls Vladimir Peña"


neither did *any* of us that responded....
JT

You are right. thanks

peterpurves@easy.com (Peter P) wrote:


OT addition follows:

My bug dual quiet pacs and a merged header.  When she's cold, she's a bit
loud on the low rumble, but little top-end and not close to fweem...

3 spaces over to the right is a white lexus.  Each time I start my bug,
the lexus' alarm goes off.  Rather amusing ;)  I keep telling the owner
each time I see him.  He still hasn't fixed his alarm...
--
[species: human; planet: earth,milkyway(western spiral arm),alpha sector]

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 16:00:03 -0800, David Gravereaux


when i was a teenager i ran a stinger on my bug...had the big cam, big
carb, and nice heads...sounded NICE...used to set off alarms all the
time...especially aftermarket ones...hehe...i loved it....there was
one fellow in particular that *hated* me....he had an alarm with a
pager taht would page him when his alarm was triggered...he used to
run outside everyday as i drove by and shake his fist at me...i would
laugh because i knew his mr2 had the crappy alarm and i made sure i
was in the left lane everyday...hehe....im over that now..(have i
outgrown that sort of thing?)
JT

I had a similar problem with almost every car 50 meters around. My stick
muffler had a small hole caused by a stone, I mean a SMALL hole, but it had
a really loud attitude. hehehe, it was really fun.

Karls

Just to finish off, thanks for the advice, and sorry for posting to
the aircooled group - must get my eyesight fixed, or wake up.  For
what it's worth, the fault seems now to have gone completely.  Looks
like the bloke in the VW dealership was right about the water in the
sensor.  Had been heavy rain, but now drier and must have dried out.
Never done this before, but this is the first time car hasn't been
garaged.

As for aircooled, best car we ever had was a 1973 1300 Beetle, bought
new, 90,000 miles on the same clutch, and sold 13 years later for more
than we paid for it when new.  Brilliant car - only replacements were
tyres and exhaust (stainless one lasted 10 years).  Have to say the
Golf Mk 4 is also a great car, but when you see the VW reliability
ratings these days you have to wonder where German engineering is
going wrong.  VW's attitude to its customers in the UK is also pretty
shabby these days compared with the way they used to be (for example,
total failure to sort out a known locks problem on many of their
cars), and as a result the next car will almost certainly be Japanese.
 Shane really.