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[RossPhim]

Right chaps, I think this is the first time I’ve written an essay in this section of the forum, so here goes.
Travelled back up North from Edinburgh last night through some of the worst conditions I have travelled in for a long time. The barge was fine. We just followed the snow plough in convoy. Some heavy rain down in Perthshire and then blizzard conditions about half way home.
Came back down the hill into Inverness and the friggin loud chirpy alarm starts going off. So pulled over stopped the engine, removed key, then replaced key started the engine again and drove off fine. Travelled around 15 miles through country to next town, all still well. Started to decelerate into 40 limit and the alarm starts going off again. So stopped – started all over again and it drive fine again till I reach my home town (around 10 miles this time), started to decelerate and off it goes again. WTF.    

Whilst all this was going on it was driving fine with no dash lights or anything else apart from the high pitched chirpy alarm noise.

Please bear in mind that it had been a long day and it was nearly midnight when all this was happening, so Sammy the sledge would have been used if necessary.

If you want my thoughts, something has gotten wet under the bonnet somewhere, and it doesn’t like it.
If so what could it be?
If not then what do you think might be cause this?

Any ideas gratefully received!

[TheBoy]

Seen this problem before, in very wet conditions...

My suspicisions are the power sounder batts are on way out or the connections to powersounder are not that good.  I guess its also possible something is happening due to the unit getting wet.

May be worth trying to keep power sounder a little dryer somehow.

[RossPhim]

Cheers for the response.
I could keep it drier by wrenching it out and leaving it on the garage floor. Would that suffice?  

[TheBoy]

Cheers for the response.
I could keep it drier by wrenching it out and leaving it on the garage floor. Would that suffice?  

That would work

[TheBoy]

The reason I know it happens in very wet conditions is because mine does it  

[RossPhim]

The reason I know it happens in very wet conditions is because mine does it  

Just as a wee side note ...... we had left the last of the blizaard conditions about an hour before the damn thing started playing up, and ground conditions were bone dry.  

[Markjay]

The reason I know it happens in very wet conditions is because mine does it  

...and mine  

though quite rarely - perhaps once or twice a year, and always in wet weather. But when the alarm does go off, just starting the car does not stop it - I have to start the car, then switch off the ingnition again, and only then the alarm goes off. Annoying, but not enough to actually get me to do something about it...  

[STMO123]

I remember when I used to have a power sounder