Alarm System Over-ride?

[JohnR]

In hot weather, I sometimes leave the windows down a little to keep down the heat a little in the car. This is only in the car park at work which is visible from my desk and therefore quite safe.

 

The problem is that the airflow through the windows trips the PIR sensors setting the alarm off. Is there an easy way of temporarily overiding the PIR sensors? or failing that, locking the car with the alarm de-activated?

 

Thanks,

John

[insider]

If you press the lock button on the remote key twice instead of just once I believe it locks the car, without deadlocking and with the alarm deactivated.

[Davo]

If you press the lock button on the remote key twice

I had a 1998 MkI and I feel sure that the remote two-press thing worked, but since it didn't have an alarm, I didn't really use it that much. Now I have a 2001 MKII with an alarm, and the remote two-press doesn't seem to work. I didn't try too hard because I began to doubt whether it ever worked on the old car. The point of this post is to say that it also works by turning the key in the lock twice (in the "locking" direction). It works both from the driver's side and the passenger side, and probably from the tailgate.

[JohnR]

I've a dodgy button on the remote so don't use it. The trick to de-activate the alarm without the double button push is as Davo suggested.

 

I just tried using the key in the door, and turning the key twice fairly rapidly in the locking direction. After this, the red led in the door does not flash so the alarm is deactivated. Have left the windows down now, but don't expect a problem.

 

Cheers Davo!

 

John