How to test alarm?

[jb92563]

Originally Posted by particlewave

I was wondering this, too. I thought the motion sensors were NOT active when the top was down, so was curious why mine went off last night when #1 douchebag stuck his dirty little hand in my car. Would make more sense if the motion sensors were on when top was down, but I thought that I read the opposite

Supposedly you need to install this red plastic thing that pushes a contact where the top would normally latch into.

Perhaps yours has been modified to make that red thing unnecessary.

[tony_fury]

Originally Posted by jb92563

Supposedly you need to install this red plastic thing that pushes a contact where the top would normally latch into.

Perhaps yours has been modified to make that red thing unnecessary.

The red clip is used when the top is down.
The red clip depresses the switch in as if the top was closed, thus the net result is the motion sensors are activated.

The red clip just fools the system that the top is closed, because the sensors will not activate unless the top is closed.
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To test if your sensors are working, you can close and latch your top, lower the windows and activate the alarm.
After about 15 seconds of arming, put your hand in the window and see if they detect motion.