Alarm, Urgent Info REquest

[Peter Anthony]

Help please
Just left boxter at local MOT garage for its second MOT. Locked car, go across road to get paper, come out of shop and mechanic staning at car with key in hand and alarm going. Using buttons would not stop alarm. I unlocked car and started ignition, alarm stopped. Central locking button on dash illuminated, I turned that off.
Car will not now seem to lock on the remote, is there something I have to do?
Left car for MOT to be done and need car today and will need to leave it parked and locked.
Will it reset itself somehow?
Can I lock it manually and alarm it?

Peter

 

[Richard_Hamilton]

Does it lock on the remote, and then immediately unlock itself? Any warning beeps?

Emergency locking with the key (described in the manual): Turn the key to the lock position and back 3 times in quick succession. This locks the car, but I believe it disables the interior monitoring sensors.

 

[Peter Anthony]

Richard
It would not lock itself. No warning beeps.
I have now read the manual and I read I can 'quickly lock the vehicle with the key three times.'
Hopefully I can manage that but now am thinking which direction is locking, clockwise or anticlockwise? Brain goes after years of remote useage!
Looks like that is the short term answer then off to the OPC for a reset job apparently.
It may have sorted itself out by now after the MOT, hopefully!
Peter

 

[jw2015]

my experience of my car refusing to lock was due to the alarm unit being under water - soft-top stowage drainage channel blocked and water flowed into car, flooding the area under the passenger seat, where the alarm unit is conveniently located .The alarm functions got increasingly erratic until finally the immboliser gave up the ghost - OPC failed to diagnose and only thanks to folks on this site did I get to the bottom of it. Given the recent level of rain you might want to check for water behind the passenger seat.

 

[Peter Anthony]

JW
Thank you for your reply, it was sheeting down yesterday evening in Cambridgeshire. I stood looking at the downpour on the Boxter and noted water trickling down the passenger rearside underneath and reflected on posts on this forum and thinking to myself at least the drainage channel is working.
I have checked both sides of the car now and they are dry thankfully which is a good sign, moral here I guess is we should check the drains are clear routinely?
I now believe it is all down to bad luck and a duff battery in one of the keys. Having gone to check the carpets and zapped the car it opened, and all seems ok with that key. The other key is not playing and seems to be the problem. Will change the battery on the dead one first just to be sure, then do so on the other as it is likely to die at the same time I guess.
Hopefully all will be OK, and perhaps young mechanic at local MOT garage was just very unlucky to have the key at the point of croaking, but it did worry me he had messed up the simple act of opening up the car and the electronics fought back.
Peter

 

[GreenThing]

Out of interest, where are the drain channels which need to be cleared. I would rather find out now rather than when my electronics are drowned.

Cheers.

 

[Mark_Bennett]

ORIGINAL: GreenThing

Out of interest, where are the drain channels which need to be cleared. I would rather find out now rather than when my electronics are drowned.

Cheers.

JCB provided a link showing where they are in this thread ---> LINK <---

 

[rajagger]

In response to this thread I had had a feel down the back of the passenger seat last night only to find a swimming pool !!!! GUTTED!

I found the drain holes and cleared them of debris. The passenger side one was full of stones and all sorts of gunk - it was well blocked. Drivers side was not too bad. I used a piece of stiff washing line - the steel cored stuff, which worked a treat.

So that's my job for the weekend sorted - mopping up!!!!

I agree with Greenthing - check the drain holes now, rather than later.