Car alarm freak out

[optical illusion]

The first time it happened I just let it go... but it's happened again, maybe CJ - you could shed some light having had a meta system before?

Alarm on - blip blip
Alrm off - blip

First time I came back to the car from shopping and the car blipped twice, odd I thought, knowing it only blips once. Got into the car, turned the ignition and what a horrible (bringing it to the scrapyard) sound from the engine, idling up and down from 0 - 200 and sounding like it was cutting out but didn't. Revving didn't help. Then I noticed every few seconds the indicator lights were flicking up on the dash, then, low and behold while sitting in the car, with the car on, the alarm goes off! I clicked the alarm off and just like that, car returns to normal, normal idling, etc. Perfect.

The Friday it happened again outside work, car blipped twice instead of once, got in turned it on, started again. Looked at my windscreen and the red light was still flashing, so clicked the alarm off in the car and then had to rev the crap out of it to make it stop cutting out.

I know you're probably saying, Laura, you dope, just turn it off, on, off, but I shouldn't have to do that surely?

Is it time to go back to the installers do you think, I only have it fitted a month or so...

[Sebastian]

sounds to me like the immobiliser is kicking in .

there is only 1 button on the fob that activates / deactivates the alarm / immob ??

[optical illusion]

What I thought...

Yes, the other button is a panic button.

[CJ]

Agree with seb on the immob. Most Meta systems have a dash mounted button installed that can be used to re-program / rest the alarm, did you get a book decribing features and progam instructions?

Worth a look:

http://www.metasystem.co.uk/index.php/m ... ew/full/78

CJ

[optical illusion]

I did, I'll have a peek through it. No button on the dash but something down near the footwell that I stick something like a USB key into it. Don't want to go fiddling with stuff I don't know much about though...

[colm_mcm]

that sounds like it's for a touch key


I had one of these on a Fiat years ago, didn't operate an immobiliser (car had one from factory), but when I stuck the touchkey in it would disarm the alarm.