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[Shelby]

Morning all,

After putting a new Cat on yesterday all was fine.  Got up this morning, car started and ran OK so off I went to work.  Now its a bit wet round here at the moment and I did end up going through at least one decent sized puddle (so this may be water related).

I stopped at a garage to get a bit of petrol en route, all was fine there, however when I got to work (around 20 miles) stopped and got out, locked the car with the key and the alarm went off (no indicator flashing just audio).  Unlock it, stick the key in the ignition etc. and after about 5-10 seconds it stops

It is now at the point where it goes off whenever I lock the car (with remote or with key in the lock, makes no difference).

Any thoughts on possible problems, if I can't sort it is there a specific fuse or something that I can take out to disable the alarm as I can't lock the car at the moment?

[Jimbob]

That sounds like the voltage change is triggering the power sounder.

Remove / disconnect is ASAP, they can self ignite!


its under the driver side wiper scuttle, guide in the maint section

[Shelby]

I was wondering about that as I have read a few things about them on here but hadn't actually checked if it was still connected or not.

It will have to wait until this evening as I can't do it at work.

Typically this had to happen the day the car is going in for an MOT retest having spend the last 2 days fighting with it to do a cat change 

[Shelby]

Right, in the process of removing the power sounder and see there is another connector under the scuttle (see picture).  The connect is just sitting on top of the power sounder, you can see the power sounder is still connected by the connector on the left of it.  Any thoughts on what this is?