Thread: help needed!! D2 flat battery, alarm screaming

Originally Posted by grover7488

tried that and no quiet!

lucky i was on acerage

Dang
Being on acerage cuts out the shop security thing too and that was my only outher thought.

Have not had this problem on the D2. Had it on a Prado once but the fob locked the doors and reset the alarm.

ONly thing I can think of that you have not posted but you may have already tried is to let the alarm run then lock the doors using the key.

If that does not work then open - close - open with the fob.

Can't think of anything else sorry.

Originally Posted by Stuuu

ONly thing I can think of that you have not posted but you may have already tried is to let the alarm run then lock the doors using the key.

If that does not work then open - close - open with the fob.

Can't think of anything else sorry.

Haven't tried to let the alarm run. hard bit is i cant close the bonnet with the jumper leads attached

if it was at my house and not in a paddock i would have just hooked up my nice new CTEK and let it be for a while

Can you tape down/disconnect/put a brick on the alarm switch under the bonnet?

Originally Posted by bee utey

Can you tape down/disconnect/put a brick on the alarm switch under the bonnet?

tried that - held down by finger, not brick

didn't work - alarm still redlined!!

cheers

Before I drive out there again can anyone else offer any suggestions?

cheers

If you have a charged battery you can place in it do that then I would follow LandyAndy's suggestion of removing the horn fuse.

That done, connect the charged battery and start it up. Run for a minute or two and then shut down and exit as normal including arming the alarm with the fob.

Then enter again using the fob and start up. Shut down then replace fus and start up again.

Can't think of anything else at this stage.

Have you tried completely disconnecting the battery ?

I would disconnect the flat battery and either replace it with another, even if a temporary replacement to get you home, or just disconnect and attempt to charge it using jumper leads & alternator of another vehicle.

Then re-connect a charged battery to the vehicle and see if things will return to normal.

Even when a battery goes flat when left for a while, it is usually not "fully" dead flat, and the low residual voltage may not be allowing a re-set of the alarm.

When I was working up north, I returned once to a pretty much dead flat battery (I had left the UHF radio on for about a month). When I tried to get it going using jumper leads, had pretty much the same experience as you with the alarm. I took the battery out and replaced it with an N70Z (was the only thing I could get hold of in Kal on a Sunday). Once new battery fitted, end of problem - the alarm re-set using the fob.

I'm still running the N70Z - the original battery is re-charged and sitting in the shed as a spare.