Thread: Factory Alarm

I'm still a beginner with these SE-Rs but here goes

I left my headlights on yesterday in my 97 SE-R when I came back to work from lunch. Doh! So, after work I go to give my co-worker a ride home we get in and it's dead cold. I get a battery and jumper cables and hook it up. As soon as I connect the cables the alarm is activated and the headlights are flashing and the horn is honking and no power ever gets to the starter.

I have to call a buddy to get a ride home. WTF !! After I get home I wonder about the passenger door lock. If you try and open the passenger door before the drivers door to get your bag of groceries out or whatever, that sets off the alarm. Today I go back and lock the passenger door and I can jump start it like every other car I've owned.

hope this may help someone else

The driver door key cylinder has 4 positions. Lock, Unlock, Arm, Disarm. The arm is just past lock, and disarm just past unlock. If the alarm is going off, just stick your key in the driver door and crank it to unlock until it disarms the system.

WHa?

Damn have I been living under a rock?! So let me get this straight, turn key to lock position twice or whatever to arm the alarm?

Man please tell me I'm crazy...

Yes, he is correct. That is what I use to do. IIRC. My car has been down for so long. But when my alarm went off. I use to just use the key in the drivers door to dis arm it (My remote was broken) So i had to use this method.

I doubt it. You dont have to do it twice, just once. In most cars when you use the key to unlock the door it will disarm the factory alarm. There is a switch in the key cylinder that pulses a ground when you lock and unlock. Each one will arm and disarm the alarm respectively. Other cars you have to disarm the alarm once it is going off by turning on the ignition with the key.

w/e u do, dont unlock the door from inside when windows are down. alarm will go off and car will not start. I laughed when my cuzin called me asking why my car is broken.

When I got in the car to try and start it I had to unlock the drivers door. But, I noticed that the red light on the dash was not blinking. So, I'm thinking with no power the alarm system never got the signal from unlocking the drivers door. As soon as the jumper cables were connected the alarm must have thought "Warning Will Robinson", someone has broke into the doors. Is that right?

My factory alarm is completely disabled (grounded the disarm wire permanently) since I put in an aftermarket. The light still blinks. There is a rhyme and reason to the blinking light, such as the speed of blinks and such, but I can't remember it off-hand. I always saw it as being pointless since it was never consistent with when it decided to blink.