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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 05:58 AM
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Okay so last night me and my wife are sitting at home and out of nowhere my alarm goes off, I rush outside and nothing. I disarm the alarm look around and re-arm it before going inside. 20 minutes later, it happens again - and again I rush outside and repeat this process. It happened once more about 3 hours later while we lay in bed and I came to the conclusion that the car was setting itself off so I disconnected the battery for the night because I'm in the Military and I have to get some sleep.

While I'm driving the car the next morning I notice that my doors unlock and overhead light comes on while on the freeway at about 65 MPH, I tried to relock the doors and that's when I realized that the Lock/Unlock button isn't responding at all, and this random unlocking of the doors is what's been setting off the alarm.

I'm not a very Tech savvy guy, nor do I know much about cars. I'm hoping that there is an easy fix to this because the car is no longer under warranty. Has anyone experienced this problem before?
 
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 07:54 AM
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Sounds like one of the door switches is bad...maybe an intermittant short but I would think the switch is definitely not closing correctly. You might want to try and clean them.
 
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 08:22 AM
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Try disconnecting the battery for a while - see if it resets anything.
I had a similar problem like this on a previous car of mine.
 
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by JHTJ
Okay so last night me and my wife are sitting at home and out of nowhere my alarm goes off, I rush outside and nothing. I disarm the alarm look around and re-arm it before going inside. 20 minutes later, it happens again - and again I rush outside and repeat this process. It happened once more about 3 hours later while we lay in bed and I came to the conclusion that the car was setting itself off so I disconnected the battery for the night because I'm in the Military and I have to get some sleep.

While I'm driving the car the next morning I notice that my doors unlock and overhead light comes on while on the freeway at about 65 MPH, I tried to relock the doors and that's when I realized that the Lock/Unlock button isn't responding at all, and this random unlocking of the doors is what's been setting off the alarm.

I'm not a very Tech savvy guy, nor do I know much about cars. I'm hoping that there is an easy fix to this because the car is no longer under warranty. Has anyone experienced this problem before?
i think he tried that....
 
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 08:57 AM
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10 out of 10 for observation, whereas I get a D-
 
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