Richard Brookman wrote:
|| Dave R wrote: || |||| Richard Brookman wrote: || ||||| The alarm kept going off in the car park at work today. ||||| Stumped. I can't find any pin switches on the doors. Are they ||||| built into the locks now or something? || |||| Rich, if the interior light is going on and the alarm is beeping |||| when you try to set it it's got to be one of the door sensors no? |||| When I used to have the disco 2 for work if you didnt shut the door |||| properly, when you set the alarm the bloody thing used to beep at |||| you. |||| I guess what you have to do now is to find where the sensors or |||| whatever is on the door. I know some cars have what looks like a |||| brass plate with a pin on the door. Got to be one there |||| somewhere......... || || Sadly no - I spent a long lunch hour (bosses enjoying a long Xmas || break) in the works car park searching for the pin switches which || every other vehicle I've owned seemed to have, but there aren't any || (apart from the bonnet switch). I reckon the door closed/open || sensor must be inside the door mechanism. Makes sense, as pin || switches are for ever failing, being cheap and nasty and exposed to || the wet, but it's a PITA when you need to swap one out. I've been || round slamming every door and the bonnet, but to no avail. The || interior light is now playing silly buggers - off when I'm parked in || the dark with the door open, but comes on when I'm half way home and || stays on when I park up and lock it. It's overdue a service, so || it's going into Green's next week. I'm sure they can find it :-(
So I mention this at service time, they put it on the computer, and hey presto! the passenger side door latch is reporting to the BECM that it is permanently open. Sounds right, so I book it in and ask them to sort it - reasonable price quoted. (Replacing the door latch is easy - reprogramming the alarm so it all talks to itself afterwards isn't.) Dealer's hours don't fit my hours of work ATM, so I run it over the night before and post the keys through the door. It is returned by a nice man the following afternoon. Mrs B pays him, and notices that when he locks the car it beeps again. I get home, check it out, and lo! the interior lights are still controlled by an alien from the planet Tharg and the alarm is reporting the same mislock. And I have a receipt for work done which says "all tested and working correctly". And minus a cheque for over a ton.
Take it back over to the dealers that night and give them a right bollocking over the phone this morning. They are sure the new door latch is correct, but the computer is still reporting a door open - not the front passenger door, but another one, and it won't tell them which one! I left them testing all the circuits for shorts and breaks and they haven't got back to me yet.
I should have done it myself....