Before I bite the bullet and get a specialist out (and cos Im well skinty after putting me big brakes on!) I thought I’d run this past you guys in case Im missing something that I could cure myself. There always hope!
Essentially for a little while now the Toad Ai606 alarm has been having a few issues and seems stuck on a bizarre sort of “Tourettes modeâ€. It doesn’t make any audible noise when activated/deactivated as it originally did - but intermittently, when the mood takes it, it starts making bizarre clucking and squawking / feedback type noises – and very loudly too!! Does this regardless of being armed or not! For all the world it sounds like someone under the bonnet has a bad public address system set up under there and is playing about with a dodgy mic. Like some ghostly ice cream van!!
When I came back after a few days away I first noticed that the usual chirp sounded a little odd, slightly like the battery was running down. Now its completely silent in all elements of operation – even when it goes off! It does have a silent mode but Ive noticed that this doesn’t appear to activate the alarm at all when I press the smaller green button on the fob to set it in this mode. It also does this when Im driving the car. Ive had a few particularly embarrassing moment at traffic lights with everyone in the surrounding cars craning their necks to see where the squawking is coming from!! Sometimes when it kicks off I can get it to stop by hitting the disarm button, or the ignition, but rarely.
I did, in a misguided attempt to cure a leak to the footwell, block the main drain slot down by the fuses.
This caused the water to pool in that area and that’s where the siren is fitted. Ive wondered if that could be the problem - a dodgy siren as a result.
Other than that the alarm seems to be operating perfectly ok. Im terrified of alarms going crackers and not being able to shut it up, but my other worry is I only have the one fob and no pin or other details from when I bought the car if it did go bad!! I don’t think it’s been messed with, I think, and it was by the looks of it a very good professional install originally.
Think this is a specialist job but any thoughts welcomed. Its started keeping the neighbours awake now so I got to get it done – tho I dodnt think they realise the odd clucking noises (thought at the moment to be some large Woodpecker) is actually coming from me car!!!
Cheers
Paul
Essentially for a little while now the Toad Ai606 alarm has been having a few issues and seems stuck on a bizarre sort of “Tourettes modeâ€. It doesn’t make any audible noise when activated/deactivated as it originally did - but intermittently, when the mood takes it, it starts making bizarre clucking and squawking / feedback type noises – and very loudly too!! Does this regardless of being armed or not! For all the world it sounds like someone under the bonnet has a bad public address system set up under there and is playing about with a dodgy mic. Like some ghostly ice cream van!!
When I came back after a few days away I first noticed that the usual chirp sounded a little odd, slightly like the battery was running down. Now its completely silent in all elements of operation – even when it goes off! It does have a silent mode but Ive noticed that this doesn’t appear to activate the alarm at all when I press the smaller green button on the fob to set it in this mode. It also does this when Im driving the car. Ive had a few particularly embarrassing moment at traffic lights with everyone in the surrounding cars craning their necks to see where the squawking is coming from!! Sometimes when it kicks off I can get it to stop by hitting the disarm button, or the ignition, but rarely.
I did, in a misguided attempt to cure a leak to the footwell, block the main drain slot down by the fuses.
This caused the water to pool in that area and that’s where the siren is fitted. Ive wondered if that could be the problem - a dodgy siren as a result.Other than that the alarm seems to be operating perfectly ok. Im terrified of alarms going crackers and not being able to shut it up, but my other worry is I only have the one fob and no pin or other details from when I bought the car if it did go bad!! I don’t think it’s been messed with, I think, and it was by the looks of it a very good professional install originally.
Think this is a specialist job but any thoughts welcomed. Its started keeping the neighbours awake now so I got to get it done – tho I dodnt think they realise the odd clucking noises (thought at the moment to be some large Woodpecker) is actually coming from me car!!!
Cheers
Paul
Does sound like it’s the siren (no pun there 
!) – especially as otherwise the alarm seems to work as it should. I wonder if it’s possible to fix the existing siren at – perhaps the back up battery needs replacing – is this possible? It was the bottom of the unit that got a bit soaked, and that does seem to be where the wiring goes in. Don’t know if there’s anything else I can check on the siren itself, but it could well be terminal!!
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