Alarm Problems

[djtex]

Morning!!

I seem to have a problem with my alarm, in that it goes off when we have heavy rain. BMW spent nearly 6 hours looking at this last week and couldn't re-create it, but made a number of changes and tweaks, the weird thing is when it goes off it isn't storing each alarm in the memory so they couldn't see anything, weird!!

It's now happened again 3 times so far today, but obviously means another trip to the dealer. Annoying indeed.

Anyone else had an issue?

 

[ksher]

This happened to my Zed as well (few times since I bought it in May 2010). But I did not take it to the dealer.

 

[Z4andy]

It's a sensor in the door. BMW know about this as it is on their PUMA system.

I had mine sorted last November. The fix requires some insulation around the sensor. My dealer knew about it after looking it up.

In the mean time, if you press the lock button twice (led in mirror pauses for a moment) this switches the sensor off and the alarm will not sound due to this fault.

 

[Z4andy]

Also to add

To recreate the fault.

Press lock button once. Take a hose pipe and point a jet of water at the drivers door. The alarm will most likely sound when the water strikes the door skin.