Picasso alarm/locking problem

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John

Sounds normal for a Citroen, but I've only had Xantias. If you set the alarm & loose the blipper, you can silence the alarm by opening the door and starting the car with the alarm button on the dash pressed.

Andrew

Thanks for the tip, I'll try that.

Any idea about how to lock the car without the blipper? It's possible the windows auto close, in which case I might be able to sit in, lock it, climb out the window and watch them shut!

andrew_s_chesters wrote:

JK ( snipped-for-privacy@group.only) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Erm, use the key in the lock?

Erm, read the original post. Lock doesn't activate central locking, only blipper does, probably cos alarm has interfered with multiplex wiring system. Maybe there's a workaround.

JK ( snipped-for-privacy@group.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

You mean a really clever high-tech workaround like locking the other doors from the inside, then locking the driver's and tailgate from outside?

The Picasso does not have a locking switch on the individual doors, just a single button that operates the central locking, on the dash. What is meant to happen is that locking a front door with the key should trigger the central locking. In my case, and I believe others with the Citroen alarm, this mechanism does not work, leaving the blipper as only way to lock the car from the outside. I'm trying to find out either how it gets fixed or how to work round it in the rare event of the blipper stopping working. What are you trying to do?

Very restrained; I'd have gone for the jugular!

Blipper failure is NOT rare on Citroen, it is the norm in my experience. I spent a lot of time & effort trying to sort the last Xantias locking out; the current one has alarm problems. I like them really....

Andrew

JK ( snipped-for-privacy@group.only) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

You're kidding me. Please tell me you're kidding me. That's *really* monumentally cretinous.

My apologies. I assumed it was you that was the idiot, when it's actually the designers.

andrew_s_chesters (andrew.chesters@ntlworld*nospam*.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I wouldn't go that far - I've not even had to replace the battery in the remote for my XM in four years and 50k miles.

But it's certainly hardly unusual.

That is a piece of monumental stupidity on the part of Citroen's designers. I am utterly gobsmacked, and apologise profusely to the OP.

Yes. But likely to generate a lot of revenue.

That's OK. If you can't jump to conclusions about someone over a temporally disjunct text-only interface, when can you!

JK ( snipped-for-privacy@group.only) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

That's *exactly* what my mother used to say.