Alarm problems

I'm somewhat very new here, but I wonder if someone can help with a problem I'm having with the alarm on my new '05 Defender 90?

I park it overnight about 20ft from a road on which lorries from a quarry regularly drive in the early hours of the morning. One or two of these lorries seem to be setting the alarm off, which is starting to rather annoy the neighbours...

I've tried moving it further from the road, in case air movement was setting it off, but it still goes off about twice a week, and I'd have to park it in the living room to get further away!

I'm now trying using the key to lock it up, instead of the key fob, the hope being that this will lock the doors but keep the alarm switched off.

Anyway, I was wondering whether anyone else has encountered this problem, and if so, how they solved it?

Be very careful. Especially if the alarm does not play up anywhere else.
Modern alarms are sophisticated animals and very rarely false trigger.
Be especially suspicious if you have had the alarm checked and the experts can find nothing wrong with it.
Are you absolutely sure it is the passing trucks?

Some of the low lifes who frequent the early hours often deliberately and repeatedly set off alarms on targetted vehicles. As an ex copper I know this trick very well as many owners whose cars had been stolen often commented that the alarm had been playing up for no apparent reason a week or so before the car went missing so they stopped using the alarm.

Symptoms are that the alarm only plays up at night, often at or near the same location, at a time that most normal people dont want to be a nuisance. Therefore considerate owners turn the alarm off until the morning or until they can get it looked at. You can guess what the scum do when they return and find the alarm is not set because you didnt want to annoy the neighbours.

Dont want to worry you but I'd hate to hear your motor had gone missing.

I concur with the above.

If you are absolutely sure it is definately passing lorries setting it off. try disabling one alarm component at a time until you find the cause. It is often things hanging down in the car like airfresheners that can swing about triggering internal movement sensors.

Or the built in spider is nocturnal?

my factory fit spider died - can i get some money back?

boydy1989 said:

my factory fit spider died - can i get some money back?

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Only if it happened within the warranty period. You need to be careful though, that kind of modification will almost certainly affect your insurance premium. I'd get it seen to as soon as possible.

You could get internal sensors checked, on our 90 this was faulty,going off for no apparant reason.

odenne said:

Only if it happened within the warranty period. You need to be careful though, that kind of modification will almost certainly affect your insurance premium. I'd get it seen to as soon as possible.

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Performance mod that... huge weight saving from not having a spider. No need to go back to LR to get a new one, there's loads about going fer free...





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Try parking the vehicle the opposite way around and put a PIR floodlight over it. This'll help stop any nasty oiks.

Thanks for the follow-up - I did wonder if it was the rain water gently dripping into the footwells that sets the alarm off, but it also goes off when it's dry.

I think it's a good reason to finally replace the bulb in the floodlight that overlooks it, and get the alarm sensor checked sooner than later...

Until then, I'll use the key instead of the fob and so doors locked, immobiliser on, but alarm off.

Thanks again,

Mike