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Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby TheWalker » Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:23 am

Hi

I've just been given a company Ford Transit 2018. It's a great vehicle except for one fault. The alarm goes off for no reason around 4am every night. I have no idea why the alarm would do this because surely alarms are meant to go off due to pressure sensors or movement sensors not a timer? It's a bizarre problem!

To experiment I tried taping over the sensors and closing air vents just encase they were triggered by something at that time every night (unlikely). But that didn't work.

Any ideas what could cause this issue?

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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby Altransit » Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:26 am

Alarms also go off if the battery voltage drops, so it may be worth checking if the battery is failing :idea:

Do you have two batteries :?:
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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby ned » Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:36 am

Maybe the great unwashed are testing to see if you react :wink:
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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby TheWalker » Sun Sep 09, 2018 10:51 am

Altransit wrote:Alarms also go off if the battery voltage drops, so it may be worth checking if the battery is failing :idea:

Do you have two batteries :?:


But would that happen at 4am every night? And once I've re-locked it doesn't go off again. So I don't think it's a battery drop?
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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby knobby1 » Sun Sep 09, 2018 11:34 pm

Very "punctual" towrags..??

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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby Herts » Mon Sep 10, 2018 6:47 pm

One of the neighbors kicking your van when going to work.

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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby TheWalker » Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:14 pm

I found out today another van delivered at the same time has an identical problem. So this is a fault perhaps with many more identical models. What puzzles me is why the supplier let these vans go out when they had this fault? I can't believe they didn't know? The alarm goes off at random during the day, and always at night. I'm temporarily getting round it by locking the door manually overnight.

As for punctual yobs and aggressive neighbours, yes this is a problem area for crime recently. So who knows what part they might have played lol
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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby CasualNerd » Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:28 am

A clever thief might have it in mind harass you hoping you permanently disable the alarm, so that eventually they can get access and have time to steal it.

Pretty good idea to get some video recording overnight just in case, even just to rule it out.
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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby knobby1 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:36 am

CasualNerd wrote:A clever thief might have it in mind harass you hoping you permanently disable the alarm, so that eventually they can get access and have time to steal it.

Pretty good idea to get some video recording overnight just in case, even just to rule it out.


Clever thinking there Sir... :wink:

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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby Punto443 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:37 am

Have you tried changing the time on the clock :lol:
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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby TheWalker » Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:20 pm

CasualNerd wrote:A clever thief might have it in mind harass you hoping you permanently disable the alarm, so that eventually they can get access and have time to steal it.

Pretty good idea to get some video recording overnight just in case, even just to rule it out.


I have CCTV thanks :wink:
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Re: Alarm goes off at 4am every night!! 2018 Transit

Postby bambi mk 1 » Tue Sep 11, 2018 3:28 pm

Punto443 wrote:Have you tried changing the time on the clock :lol:

Wont be long till Pete will be letting us know :wink: :lol:
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