How do you disable the alarm?

[Brett Dikeman]

At 4:15 PM -0600 8/1/02, david_haupt at agilent.com wrote:

>In the past week, the alarm has really gone overboard.  In the years
>I've owned the car, I've never been able to set the alarm off, and
>just figured you had to break a window or something to do so.  But
>now, it goes off every time!  We unlock the driver's door with the
>key and open the door.  So far, so good.  The moment we sit in the
>seat, the alarm goes off.

>My wife says she can leave the driver's door open, go around to the
>other side of the car, and use the key to lock the passenger door,
>which shuts off the alarm.  Now, go to the driver's side, get in,
>and go.

The gear which actuates the microswitches to tell the alarm to disarm
is broken or misaligned...or the microswitch is broken.

The alarm isn't actually going off because you're sitting in the
seat..its going off because you opened a door.  There is a
substantial delay between when the alarm gets triggered and when it
actually starts beeping.  Our cars do not have any sensors except
door/hood/truck open switches.

Brett
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