Mike Murphy

Tried to disconnect negative terminal on my battery tonight, as I took off the connector, heard a bleep and about 10 seconds later factory alarm stared going off. Normally I'd try again in the morning and just disconnect positive as fast as I could, however, my Mrs is currently on nightshift and if the alarm goes off tomorrow morning when she is sleeping, I'm a dead man.

Can anyone help??

Mike

jods

National Express - Coach Travel

silent running

Either get some ear defenders and put them on here while she's asleep or squash an old pillow around the alarm siren when it goes off.

Mike Murphy

So, it is as simple as just disconnecting the positive really quickly after the negative to stop the alarm going off??

I'm not going to knacker the alarm am !??

Apple

Dunno about the factory alarm but other types can be sorted by arming / disarming the alarm and then whipping off the terminal within 10 secs of the disarm - obviously helps if you've loosened the terminal first...

The alarm unit then remembers the state in which it was powered down for when you reconnect it. I guess leaving it longer than 10 secs may bring in any auto-immobilise on the unit and then it my be more difficult to sort.

just my 2p