gljam

I'm due to go on holiday for a week in a few days and have been having a few problems with the scoob. The alarm has not been arming properly and occasionally goes off (eg 3.20am this morning ), so as i am planning on leaving my car at my grandfathers for a week would it be ok disconnecting the battery for 8 days or so to save him the hastle of trying to figure out how the hell these new fangled cars work?

scoobyboy

does it have a tracking device if so with no battery connescted it's backup would go flat and if the unthinkable did happen.............

gljam

um no i doesn't, would that be the only problem? i know the ecu will reset but i don't think that will be a problem, i was just wondering if there would be any other sort of problems?

scoobyster

Does your alarm not have a battery back up? IIRC Cat1 alarms have to have one. If it does, presumably your alarm will still go off anyway, probably more so as its back up starts to go flat and it gets confused!

gljam

Doh! never thought of that, cheers, i'll have to tell Gap to get an engineer out pronto, thanks for your help and bye bye holiday beer money

scoobyboy

if you disconnect the battery after you have turned the alarm off it will be ok it won't go off you just have to lock all doors manually.

andypugh2000

Leave the battery connected but just key the doors locked without arming the "bells" the immobiliser will still work ok like this too

gljam

Cheers guys, my alarm has the passive arming so will set itself anyway although saying that it's been so **** about tit the last 3 or 4 days i'm not sure what it will do, time for a bit of experimenting i think