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[osealy]

Day or night, warm or cold, sometimes ok for a week sometimes every 5 mins. Tried disconnecting the hood catch, no help.
Can I just pull a fuse. And still keep the remote locking. I'm having to leave it unlocked at night.

[PaulW]

disconnect the powersounder, its the black box located under the scuttle (drivers side)

its most likely the internal batteries failing which can cause this

I completely binned mine!  The alarm still works through the horn backup anyways, so it wont cause any issues there.

[Danny]

or bonnet switch

[PaulW]

or bonnet switch

Said they already tried  

[mike213735]

Try disconnecting the wires that run to the rear windows. The ones actually in the estate part of the car.

Mike

[TheBoy]

Try disconnecting the wires that run to the rear windows. The ones actually in the estate part of the car.

Mike

yup, rear pane sensors on estate are rubbish

[LFF64]

might be worth wrapping some tape or something around the bonnet switch to keep it held in just to try it

[Brian T]

Do you, or have you heard 3 or 4 beeps when switching off the ignition?

Mine did this and it was a sign of the internal batery fainling in the power sounder

[osealy]

pulled plugs off bck window. not goe off since, what is scuttle? does 97P have power sounder?

[albitz]

scuttle is the plastic panel at the bottom of the windscreen.i believe they all have a powersounder.

[gsdtrainer]

coincidence.......was reading this thread and thinking-mine does that sometimes and every so often i have 4 beeps when i turn the engine off-then my alarm went off.this scuttle ,is that inside the car or under the bonnet?can you renew the batteries?ta,terry

[albitz]

the panel is on the outside . black plastic between bottom of windscreen and top edge of the bonnet.you take the wipers off and then undo various little fasteners.afraid i dont know if batteries are renewable.

[gsdtrainer]

thanks albitz,will have a look tomorrow,when the sun comes out.

[Brian T]

I've read mixed reports elsewhere about replacing these bateries some involved the unit catching fire.

I think the general concensus is either replace it (the whole unit) or disconnect it.

I'm sure the more experienced oof'ers will confirm or deny.

[osealy]

Thanks mike44755678. Pulling off the window plugs did it. Simplest fix ever. If only I could sort out the cooling so easily.