Finally got my Alarm Chirps back!

[Bluebotle]

Hi,

On the way to Japfest, my alarm lost its chirps when being armed/disarmed.

After talking to a few people, it seemed as though the ECU may be at fault. After searching on the web for 2 days this weekend, I found a glimmer of hope. I found other Scooby owners (mainly USA) had the same problem all of which said the alarm is programmable to set the chirps on or off.

Using the key fob I found there were many different ways to set it on or off which was dependant on the type of alarm. To cut a long story short, I found one of the combinations of key presses worked for me!

I had to disarm the alarm, get into the car, put the key into the iginition, turn the ignition on and then open the drivers door and arm the alarm. The Alarm will beep once and it will now be back on again.

Hey presto it worked. It now beeps twice when setting and once when disarming.

Other combinations that didn't work were:-

Disarm the alarm, and hold the panic button and arm button together for 5 secs.

or

Just Press the panic button whilst the igniton was on.

Well chuffed now! saves me buying an ECU.

Cheers

Lee

[blue boy]

Mine's never chirped, may try your method Lee.

 

Is it for a Cat 1 Subaru UK Alarm with a seperate key fob?

[Bluebotle]

Not sure what alarm it is, I have a spare key fob and assume it is the standard alarm.

I'll post a photo of it online so you can compare

Cheers

Lee

[Little H]

Lee have you got a link to the info as im having probs with mine. It all works fine but doesnt blip and the indicators sparadically do what they want.

[blue boy]

Thanks Lee a link to the site would be useful too!

[Bluebotle]

I found this link usefull, it has many posts on alarm problems with the 04-05 year but within the posts I found one of the procedures below for getting it working again.

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?p=10530659

buzzer chirp on/off

1: press unlock once for 5 secs 2: press both for 2 sec

I'll check my History for further procedures that may help.

Let me know if it gets yours working again.

Cheers

Lee