Is it possible?

I read in the manual that one press just puts the door sensors on and two presses withing 3 seconds is needed to put the full system on including volumetric sensors etc..

Anyone know if you can swap this function around? I'd prefer to have the full alarm on most of the time but I am lazy and cant be bothered pressing the butting twice! 09MY FL2 Td4 XS, Style Pack, Privacy Glass, Martinique Blue.. oh so very blue..

I know where you are coming from the current system is odd, why would you want to lock the car and not alarm it?
Ok so some people leave pets in the car so maybe one press to lock and alarm the car, two presses to turn the alarm off? or a system such as Audi's have where you press a button on the drivers door if you want the alarm off?

Recently Mrs G wanted to know how to lock the car while sat in the back if she wanted to park up to feed or change our son. So I sat in the back and press the fob button once, doors locked but no alarm, then to test I double pressed the button still no alarm despite foolish jumping up n down . So I opened the rear door and the car made a vague beeping noise probably a new EU permitted alarm volume level ?

So verdict don't worry about the alarm as its near silent anyway  At work
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chicken george wrote:

So I opened the rear door

Doesn't double locking the car set the dealocks, so you can't open them from inside, so if someone smashed a window they still couldn't open the door.

Perhaps as you were inside the car it wouldn't set the alarm, or deadlocks, as a safety feature? Either that or your car's broke

Rich

I had to pull the unlock latch under the door handle before I could get out , but your right it should have deadlocked? Maybe it did detect me in the car?
Does someone else want to try the same trick?

edit. I think one press just locks the car and sets the door open alarm, two presses deadlocks and volumetric alarms, hence I was able to get out?

So maybe in a low crime areas one press, in worse areas two presses? Why doesn't it just fully lock on one press  At work
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I always go for 4 or 5 presses, but then again I think I may be paranoid, as I will also check out the window in the evening, to check the wing mirrors have folded in, so I know it's locked.

Then again, I'd hate to lose my lovely car, couldn't imagine it, I've only felt this strongly about my MGF, and this is the first car that I've been able to imagine owning for longer than 3 years, and I can imagine always wanting to own LRs from now on.

The last few cars I've had did the same, I presume it's a safety thing with having deadlocks, and makes unsetting the alarm easier.

I don't mind, but I can understand why some would.

Rich

after going to sleeping in my FL2 instead of a tent, I can vouch that the deadlocks do work, and you are unable to get out without the keyfob.

Also the keyfob is hard to reach when it drops under the drivers seat with the back seats down and the alarm sounding.

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rmbillington wrote:

I always go for 4 or 5 presses, but then again I think I may be paranoid, as I will also check out the window in the evening, to check the wing mirrors have folded in, so I know it's locked.
Rich

Thank god its not just me ......

Its a good job those wing mirror fold or I'd be out at all times of the night checking .....

As for the noise of the alarm then on my car it is bloody loud, well it is if its the same as using the panic button on the remote. Certainly loud enough to wake up half the neighborhood !!

My car alarm is loud too ...... as experienced during the Great Easter Egg robbery from my car when parked in Nottingham. I heard it very clearly at 6am, when asleep in a nearby house; shame I turned it off thinking it was a false alarm  Life is not a dress rehearsal!

avtur wrote:

As for the noise of the alarm then on my car it is bloody loud, well it is if its the same as using the panic button on the remote. Certainly loud enough to wake up half the neighborhood !!

Avtur I thought your FL2 was equipped with the old peoples package, where the alarm is 3 times louder, in the hope you might hear it without your hearing aid, and where the panic button is renamed car park locator as you are likely to have forgotten where you parked it?  Once you've tasted GREY you'll never go back!

uh oh I sense trouble brewing here  At work
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I've just dipped into this thread after reading the subject.

To really make the alarm come on with one press of the key fob, use the little red triangle at the bott0m of the fob! Works every time - LOL  Gone... 2013 XS TD4 Manual Firenze Red
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rmbillington

16th Aug 2008 7:47 pm
I always go for 4 or 5 presses

Now I'm really confused...

Usually, just out of habit, I press briefly the 'lock' button to lock the car.
However, twice just recently, I've managed to set the alarm off once I have left the proximity of the car.
And for the record, this is the actual high-pitched alarm- NOT the panic horn. (Did that once!)

The manual states that briefly pressing the lock button arms the alarm, but is suitable for keeping pets in the vehicle.

I have two springer spaniels that sometimes occupy the boot, but I daren't lock it with them in it in case the alarm sounds.

Some clarity here would be a great help...
Thanks.

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Single press enables alarm, no deadlock, no interior sensing.
2 press enables alarm, deadlocks & interior sensing. MY15
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Hmm... then how did I manage to set the alarm off?

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