306 xl (96) alarm annoyance

Hi,

I bought a 306 XL (96) a few months back. All has been well up until the
last 2 weeks when the alarm has started to go off for seemingly no reason at
random intervals maybe once or twice a day. Firstly how do I turn the
ultrasonics off and still have the alarm and deadlock on the doors?

Secondly what might be causing this "over-sensitivity"? I would ideally like
to have this sorted so my car can operate at it's maximum level of security
again.

Thanks for any advice you guys can give me,

Dazza

 

when mine started to do this i found out it was my bonnet protection.
The little post which detects whether the bonnet is open had broken
off and the cable was hanging down by the fan. It would trigger off
for no reason. It could be this which is causing you probs! The
cable comes from the left side (driver side) of the engine and goes
round the edge to the front. Check this cos this is quite common from
what they say at Peugeot (design fault then!).

scott

 

Sounds familiar :-( I had this happen to me a few weeks ago. It turned out
to be the bonnet switch. Cost me £75 at the Peugeot garage to replace.

To check whether it's the ultrasonics first, there should be a little button
just by the ignition. Press and hold this button for a couple of seconds
before removing the key, and this will allow you to alarm the doors without
operating the ultrasonics. This way, if it still goes off, it's the door or
bonnet switches (or a problem with the alarm itself).

 

It's worth having your battery checked. My alarm used to go off
occasionally for no reason. Then, when I had the battery replaced, the
false alarms stopped.

Stuart
www.radox.freeserve.co.uk/306.htm

 

* On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:07:52 +0100, :: Dazza ::

Get a baseball bat and break all the windows. I did this for the
guy up the street and it fixed his alarm -- it doesn't go off in
the middle of the night any more!

 

no cos chances are that some dufus come along with his drug taking
posse and torched it not long after you done his windows. I would say
dont worry, when it begins to rain again water will get into it and
stop it from working!

Oh, and i dont have a baseball bat cos they are only effective on ppl
who dont know how to defend themselves against them.

scott