06-14-2023, 10:18 AM
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Location: Oakville, Ontario
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"Beep" when arming the alarm
Finally splurged from not having a working fob to ordering a brand new one - now have automatic lock/unlock functionality, etc.
Is there a way to activate a "beep" when either the alarm is armed or disarmed, or you only have the flashing lights to work with?
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2001 Lapis Blue Boxster 5spd.
2011 Sand White Cayenne 6spd.
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06-14-2023, 10:56 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: It's a kind of magic.....
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The system is designed to beep only when there is an alarm FAULT, if all is working, the headlights flash. You cannot change this.
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“Anything really new is invented only in one’s youth. Later, one becomes more experienced, more famous – and more stupid.” - Albert Einstein
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06-15-2023, 03:21 AM
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Location: Lansing, MI
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Would be nice if the site had "likes", "helpful", or other kind of marks/reactions.
Jeff, now it makes sense.
My car would beep. Sometimes randomly.
After addressing the microswitches in doors, it stopped beeping. I thought I did something.
Now I know.
Thanks.
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06-15-2023, 04:28 AM
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"50 Years of 550 Spyder"
Join Date: Jun 2015
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All of this information….
….is inside the owner’s manual.
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550 SE #310---"It's more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow."
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06-15-2023, 04:40 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 10/10ths
….is inside the owner’s manual.
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if you had one....
but being 7th owner, well, the manual somehow got lost.
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06-15-2023, 10:52 AM
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Location: Laval QC
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Can be found online... the site where I got my free manual seems to have disappeared, but there are others if you look.
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Arctic Silver 2000 Boxster S - bought with a broken engine, back on the road with the engine replaced
Green 2000 Boxster 5-speed and 1978 928 auto
1987 924S 5-speed (Sold) - Blue 2000 Boxster 5 spd (Sold)
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06-15-2023, 11:43 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PLP
Would be nice if the site had "likes", "helpful", or other kind of marks/reactions.
Jeff, now it makes sense.
My car would beep. Sometimes randomly.
After addressing the microswitches in doors, it stopped beeping. I thought I did something.
Now I know.
Thanks.
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If you have access to a Porsche scan tool like Durametric, PST II, or PIWIS; you can read the alarm fault file and see the last ten times the alarm when into fault, and the location causing it. Invaluable when trying to diagnose a fault issue. 
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06-15-2023, 11:47 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by elgyqc
Can be found online... the site where I got my free manual seems to have disappeared, but there are others if you look.
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Porsche has been on the warpath against sites publishing copies of just about anything concerning these cars as they see it as a violation of their intellectual property rights. We had to take down all of the factory TSB bulletins over on RennTech because of this, and actually have to discourage posters from pasting factory technical information as well. You really do not want to tangle with their legal department, they are pretty nasty about stuff like this.
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06-18-2023, 06:07 AM
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"50 Years of 550 Spyder"
Join Date: Jun 2015
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Well…
….you bought what was a $50,000 German sports car.
You should spend $20 and buy an owner’s manual for that $50,000 thing in your driveway.
If you bought a used private jet, would you fly it without the owner’s manual?
Just buy one.
And change your oil.
And get off my lawn.
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06-21-2023, 03:34 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2021
Location: Lansing, MI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 10/10ths
….you bought what was a $50,000 German sports car.
You should spend $20 and buy an owner’s manual for that $50,000 thing in your driveway.
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Well... yes. it was 50,000 USD worth German car.
Now it is only a German car. Should not be worth more than 5,000 after 20 years.
Hence, 20 for a manual... I will find some free online somewhere.
If that was a repair manual, I would get it.
And i did.
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