The alarm on my car has gone off two nights running at around midnight have no idea why.

It is on a locked gated drive so difficult for any human interference. If it was human or even animal the drive lights would have all come on but they did not all were dark.

 

Any thoughs on what it may be?, strange that it seemed to be around the same time.

There were no thunderstorms at the time btw.

Edited 30 June, 20169 yr by philsmith

Would a scan show the reason?

Would a scan show the reason?

 

On BMW in INPA you can view which sensor triggered it.

 

Should be the same with VAG one would of thought

Any idea where the info could be found?

How peculiar. Still waiting for my S3 but in the last week the alarm on my Octy 2 has mysteriously gone off in the middle of the night on 3 occasions. Twice one night (about 11:45 and 1:30) and once two nights later (about 12:30). My driveway is not quite as secure as yours, but no sign of anything to cause it and this has never happened before in 6 years I've owned it.

Truly strange...

just out of interest how loud is it? the chirp it makes when you lock the car is very muted..

It is the alarm so quite loud.

My alarm on the 11 year-old Skoda is triggered by internal temperature drop inside from being hot to a very cold night,/ or it starts to rain after a hot day, when it's parked-out on street.

I simply press 'open door lock button' followed by 'lock door lock button' on remote control to silence alarm..

The alarm on my car has gone off two nights running at around midnight have no idea why.

It is on a locked gated drive so difficult for any human interference. If it was human or even animal the drive lights would have all come on but they did not all were dark.

Any thoughs on what it may be?, strange that it seemed to be around the same time.

There were no thunderstorms at the time btw.

I had this exact experience with a kia cee'd. The alarm woke us up a few nights normally after 1am. Each time I'd run down the stairs and grab the key and turn it off hoping it didnt wake the neighbours. Opened the house door each time and checked the car. Absolutely nothing wrong but kept doing it for a few weeks. I brought it to the garage insisting the alarm was faulty. Mechanics were a bit confused because according to their diagnostics the car didn't have an alarm. Turned out it was the neighbours car alarm which had been going off. We found this out over a pint a few weeks later when I was apologising if my alarm was waking him up. We had some laugh that night

Would a scan show the reason?

 

Possibly

 

Any idea where the info could be found?

 

It would need plugging into either the dealers diagnostics or by someone with VCDS.

Mines just done this !! Reason ..... Dash cam had fallen off the windscreen ...

 

You've not got a fly stuck in the car ?

So paranoid about waking the neighbours I left it unlocked last night!

 

Could be an insect or two in there, have not had it cleaned since coming back from camping at Le Mans, going to the car wash today so will get them to do a thorough vavumn inside as well.

So paranoid about waking the neighbours I left it unlocked last night!

 

Could be an insect or two in there, have not had it cleaned since coming back from camping at Le Mans, going to the car wash today so will get them to do a thorough vavumn inside as well.

 

 

Oh no that doesn't sound like a great solution.... have you tried to isolate the interior movement sensors with the little button on the interior of the drivers door pilar to see if it stops?

I had this issue the other week, turns out there was a moth flying around and setting off the sensor. Once I got the "little" bigger out at 3 in the morning after a long battle it stopped

Going back many years, I had the same sort of issue with a new VW Corrado which only started happening a few weeks after owning it.

It turned out to be that the interior sensors were set slightly too sensitive and the slightest change of air pressure was enough to set off the alarm.

It was a five minute job on the electronic analyser at the dealer to sort it out.

have not had it cleaned since coming back from camping at Le Mans, going to the car wash today so will get them to do a thorough vavumn inside as well.

No illeagal immigrants trapped in the boot are there?