Boxster S Alarm keeps on going off!!!

[Overdrive]

Check to be sure your ceneter console lid is indeed closed. It may look it and not actually be secure.

Also, do you still have your stock radio? If you've changed that out to an after market head unit, there's a grounding strip on the back of the stock unit that grounds out to a wire in the console. If you lose that contact, the car thinks the radio has been removed by thieves/vandals/rapscallions and wil sound the alarm. If you have replaced the radio with an aftermarket, you'll want to resolve that issue. If you haven't, check it anyways, as the contact or wire may have built up some corrosion and lost the ocntact.

[CrazyBoy]

Battery is a few months old, only thing is I got a 2DIN Pioneer radio which I got
installed by a professional, I read somewhere else that the original radio is part of the alarm system and this is why the alarm goes off due to the missing component. I get 1 beep every time I lock the doors.

[tony_fury]

Originally Posted by CrazyBoy

Battery is a few months old, only thing is I got a 2DIN Pioneer radio which I got
installed by a professional, I read somewhere else that the original radio is part of the alarm system and this is why the alarm goes off due to the missing component. I get 1 beep every time I lock the doors.

With that NOT grounded properly you will get 1 beep every time you lock the doors.
I verified this when installing my new radio as well.

Good pic Ray..

It was designed that if the radio is removed it disconnects the ground contact invoking the alarm.
T

[Joel-Box-ster]

Originally Posted by tony_fury

With that NOT grounded properly you will get 1 beep every time you lock the doors.
I verified this when installing my new radio as well.

T

I have a aftermarket radio as well no wonder the alarm chirps everytime I arm it.

[CrazyBoy]

I believe this is the problem and the professional @ future shop that installed it didnt
notice this...

Originally Posted by Overdrive

Check to be sure your ceneter console lid is indeed closed. It may look it and not actually be secure.

Also, do you still have your stock radio? If you've changed that out to an after market head unit, there's a grounding strip on the back of the stock unit that grounds out to a wire in the console. If you lose that contact, the car thinks the radio has been removed by thieves/vandals/rapscallions and wil sound the alarm. If you have replaced the radio with an aftermarket, you'll want to resolve that issue. If you haven't, check it anyways, as the contact or wire may have built up some corrosion and lost the ocntact.