Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:16:33 +0100 From: Pooh Bear <rabbitsfriendsandrelationsnospamail.com> Subject: Re: "Service Theft Alarm" message in SID - 99, 9-5
Bill Jackson wrote: > I had asked about this a while back and no one had an idea of what this was. > Car was in for other service today and I asked them to check. > > The report was that the alarm siren, which supposedly has rechargeable > batteries in it so that it'll work if you cut the battery cable, has had the > batteries go flat. The solution is to replace the siren at a cost of > something like $300. > > I figured I can press the "clear" button on the SID for a while before this > really bothers me, but this sounded suspect so I thought I'd check here. > The repair guy said that the batteries in the siren cannot be replaced and > thus the entire siren needs to be renewed. > > does this make sense? It clearly doesn't make sense as you and I would understand it. OTOH, if the batteries were readily accessible to enable them to be changed as a service item then the theft siren could be readily muted by simply removing them. Graham
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