My Freelander alarm is acting like some kind of weather device at the moment. When it rains the alarm goes off. It amazing how often it rains at night which I had previously not noticed. I have found that locking the car with the key rather than the remote stops this happening. The dealership have had the car back twice now each time claiming to have fixed it. Yet at 6 this morning I was kindly informed by the car that it was raining again. Has anyone else had this problem and more importantly have you solved it?
LR GUY
New Member
the reason it does not go off when you only lock it with the key is because volumetric protection is only enabled when you use the fob,
if its been to a dealer they should have checked the obvious things ie
1, three door models can have water ingress through the aerial and drip water onto the volumetric sensor.
2, 5 door models you can lower the sensitivity of the sensor,
3, water ingress onto the ccu behind the passenger fuseboard.
if its been back several times allready they will have possibly replaced the sensor or ecu so suppose its another trip back to the dealer to tell them of your dissapointment.
if its been to a dealer they should have checked the obvious things ie
1, three door models can have water ingress through the aerial and drip water onto the volumetric sensor.
2, 5 door models you can lower the sensitivity of the sensor,
3, water ingress onto the ccu behind the passenger fuseboard.
if its been back several times allready they will have possibly replaced the sensor or ecu so suppose its another trip back to the dealer to tell them of your dissapointment.
yella
New Member
find out where the service manager lives, wait till it rains at night, as soon as your alarm goes off, drive straight to his house with the alarm blaring then knock on his front door, tell him how pleased you are with the repair on your car and you just thought you would share it with him 
Thanks for all your suggestions. I checked the aerial for leaks this morning and it seems ok although this meant I noticed all the dirty fingerprints and scrapes that the mechanics had left from their "fix" earlier this week. Have been back to the dealers today and they have promised to escalate the matter tomorrow. I will wait with interest to see what happens
cotefarmboy
Member
From past memory it is usually the bonnet switch that causes alarms to trip when wet, if the rubber seal is split or missing, water trickles down the shaft of the switch thus earthing to the body and tripping the alarm
Well it went back last Monday, they couldn't find any problems and couldn't replicate it either but they replaced the interior sensors (again) anyway. With all the rain this week I was just beginning to think it was fixed then at 00:05 on Saturday morning (when it was raining) off it went again
ming
SPACE TWOT
Know we have a hose pipe ban, so take it to a water jet spay place ,lock yer doors without yer fob spray it heavy on the roof , then if it dont go orft ,same thing with fob lock [as this completes yer volmatric bit] and just see, if this fails look fer the big spider that crawls across the sensor at night. . .nimay said:
