Having dinner yesterday the alarm went off. Unlocked and relocked the car and went back to dinner. A couple of minutes later the alarm went off again. Back out to unlock and relock (muttering under my breath that it was my fault for only earlier in the day replying to a post saying "Yes I'd definitely have another Yeti). Barely sat down to my now cold dinner and....the alarm went off. Back out to the car, unlock and leave it like that until I'd (i) finished cold dinner and (ii) mentally run through all the increasingly expensive and complicated things it might be and (c) how I was going to stop it going off overnight and having a homicidal neighbour on my doorstep at 3am. (Pull a fuse? But which fuse?)

 

I then decided that as most cars these days are basically a computer on wheels I'd follow the advice given by all good computer techs to turn it off and turn it on again - cures 90% of faults. But in this case I'd start the car, wind the windows up and down (I don't know why - it just seemed like I'd be doing something) turn the ignition off and if that didn't fix it I'd just park a couple of streets away and see what I came back to in the morning.

 

Sat in the drivers seat, key in the ignition, slammed the door shut - and disturbed the most enormous bluebottle. It must have been the size of budgie flying around inside the car. OK that might be a bit of an exaggeration but it was pretty big. Wound down the window and out it went. Wound down the other windows, and the sunroof for good measure (well, that's what I went out to do - no point in wasting a good plan), wound everything back up and locked the car. And the alarm's not gone off since.

 

So.....can a fly inside the car (even a REALLY BIG ONE) really trigger the alarm and if so does that mean I should replace my fluffy dice with one of those yellow flypapers - which could go well with Regency Green paint work.

you got it kiddo!!   ; - D)

Speechlessness 

I thought all Yetis came with a humungous spider in each wing mirror to catch the flies. Both of mine have, even next doors cat is wary of them and he's an ace small animal killer.