Anyone knows about calibra factory alarm???

[MSG]

First of all Sorry its a long post, but if I don't tell you everything how could you help me otherwise! please accept my apologies for the lengthy exaplaination/


Any way guys this post is no longer relavent as I have now figured out the problem, so you can skip it but i decided to leave it on here in case anyone else may benefit from it.

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recently my cally almost got stolen, the culprits broke both door locks and got in the car, badly damaged the steering lock trying to overcome the lock, which they failed sadly but left a lot of damage obviously. The car is back now with new set of door and boot locks and a matching steering lock with two keys. I transfrred the transponders into the new keys and all is fine.

so now the question is why did my factory fitted alarm not work?

I have never seen the red LED blink which is mounted on the passenger side under the roof lining in the ultra sonic sensors, this LED is suppose to come on when I TURN MY Driver's DOOR lock key to the left, and I have never seen it come on before, only by chance I noticed today there is a small button on the driver's side sensor housing which when i pressed caused the LED on the passenger side to blink for 10 seconds but nothing else happened, and then I tried to set the alarm ON using the driver's door and keys, leaving someone in the car, and when I told this guy to start moving so that if the alarm is activated it should sense the person moving inside the car and activate the alarm and sound the horn but nothing happened!

I also looked under the windscreen cowl panel, and I could see the factory fitted Alarm Sounder box there with 3 wires going into it. Could this be faulty and does it have a secondary battery inside it? as I have never seen my car sound alarm ever since I have bought this calibra, my old one did and had a black box inside the engine bay with a key switch for disabling the alarm, that was the red top but this is the eccotec,

Also when I had to disconnet the battery for carrying out some work on the car for safety you disconnect the battery, but I have never heard its alarm go off ever! my old cally used to have its alarm set off when I used to disconnect its battery unless I first disabled it first using a small alarm key, but then again it was probably an after market alarm fitted to my old cally.

Can anyone tell me if this factory fitted alarm may have been disabled by someone if so where from? or is it a question of a faulty door micro switch?

Any help will naturally be greately appriciated as always. Thanks

[MSG]

I think I have figured out the problem, I just remembered when changing my driver's side door lock, I was telling Rechiem (Richard) who came to help me change the locks, I noticed that the driver's side door lock that Ihad bought off another Migger had two micro switches and one must be for the central locking and the other for the setting of the factory fitted alarm, but I noticed that a tab on one of the two cams was broken so that one of the Micro switches (I guess now that it was or is for the setting off the factory alarm) did not operate when you turned the key.

So I remember telling Richard that we may have to swop the broken cam tab from my original door lock on to the new one we will be putting on, but when Richard removed the mutilated door lock that had been badly damaged by the culprits, incidently it also had this tab broken, so someone somewhere must have broken these tabs on both these calibras!!

Obviously for some strange reason to decativate the alarm setting .....what a silly way to do this. Now I will have to fit a switch somewhere to set my factory fitted alarm to activate and decativate.

Bugger, thansk guys if you had to read the two above posts, but i think i have now found the problem and will try and sort it out to protect my car in future and I guess who ever broke these tabs must have done so as to stop false alarms occuring due to possibly oversensitive ultra sound sensors, and I beleive if you use Tech I you could possibly set its sensitivity to a lower level to stop false alarms.

Thanks again, hope you had a fantastic Christmas.

[jayporn]

Hi msg merry christmas

I think the button on the sensor is for if you leaving a dog in the car, to de activate the sensor, think i've a cavalier gsi handbook somewhere i could check.

On my dads old cav if you doublelocked the door it would arm the alarm, if you then opened the boot with the key without unlocking the door first it would sound the alarm, if you left the bonnet open and pushed the bonnet switch this would sound the alarm too. Cant remember if the hazards flashed with the alarm think it uses the cars own horn though, Is there a fuse for it?

[MSG]

Hi msg merry christmas

I think the button on the sensor is for if you leaving a dog in the car, to de activate the sensor, think i've a cavalier gsi handbook somewhere i could check.

On my dads old cav if you doublelocked the door it would arm the alarm, if you then opened the boot with the key without unlocking the door first it would sound the alarm, if you left the bonnet open and pushed the bonnet switch this would sound the alarm too. Cant remember if the hazards flashed with the alarm think it uses the cars own horn though, Is there a fuse for it?

Thanks Jay, I hope you too had a fantastic Christmas, i did, roasted a chicken and in between went out to sort out the boot lock today as that was the only thing we (me and Richard) left to be swopped last.

I do have the Calibra Ownere's manual, hence for the first time I read it on how to set the factory fitted alarm, so it gave all the necessary details what that button did, yes it disables the passanger side sensor, for things like dogs etc. I wonder what stops a dog jumping into the driver's side and set the bloody alarm off! lol

Any ways I managed to figure out the problem now, I m pretty sure thats what it is a broken tab on the driver's side door switch which operates this micro switch, it must be a common remedy by vauxhall dealers to do this in order to permanently deactivate the alarm.

I will probably use a remote key fob and a latching relay to set this alarm on/off now. Or mend the broken tab some how.

[MSG]

Good morning everyone, Happy Boxing Day, hope you all had a good fantastic Christmas, and got plenty of prezzies. I just got 1 shirt two sizes bigger than I wear!

I can now confirm that my driver's door alarm activation switch (micro switch) had been deactivated by someone previously well before the attempt, or ever since I bought the car, but why? and the same again with the new door switch I put in, even that had been deactivated,
who ever did that appears to do it by breaking off a tab on a door lock cam that no longer strikes the alarm activation micro switch at the bottom and only the top micro switch strikes the cam for central locking. (On the driver's door lock there are two micro switches stacked together)


But why deactivate like this why not just disconnect the wires, why break a cam tab that cannot be mended if the alarm requires re-implementing? Is this a usual trend on Vauxhalls?

[MSG]

Sorted out my alarm now, the cam on the driver's side door lock did not operate this micro switch, hence why it would not set. because a small tab that strikes the micro switch has been broken off purposely for whatever reason I don't know, I will soon find out I suppose when it goes off middle of the night!!

So I briefly pressed the micro switch and it set the alarm on, then it alarms in about 10 seconds, close the door, car is now alarmed, open the door without the key the alarm goes off, to stop turn the key as if to unlock the car door and this stops the alarm.

But what I now need is a remote relay to trip the alarm on, so i am now making one just to do that, I have a 418Mhz transmitter module and a reciver with a relay. Not going to leave my car unalarmed any more.