I recently purchased a 2007 Toyota Sienna, and last night, after parking the van around 10PM, the alarm decided to sound off at approximately 4AM. Naturally, I assumed it was a break-in, so I checked outside and no one was around, so I turned off the noise and reactivated the alarm. Soon thereafter, the alarm began to 'chirp' intermittently and within 30-40 minutes, the alarm went off again! I even deactivated the alarm at one point, but it reactivated itself 30 seconds later! This became a cycle right up until 7:30 this morning when my wife took the van to work. I lost sleep, my neighbors were upset, and I didn't know what to think. The one thing, however, that we concluded, was the fact that when I had turned off the ignition, the windshield wipers were not completely down, nor were they turned off. I have since contacted Toyota, and was told that the wipers most likely were the cause, but without looking at the alarm, they couldn't be 100% sure. Any thoughts ... car experts?
2007-02-27 17:40:30 · 5 answers · asked by DBMay75 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Toyota
windshield wipers were not the cause, take it back to the dealer
2007-03-01 06:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by currious 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to take your Sienna back to the Toyota Dealership pronto! I bought my new 07 Toyota (last May) and the alarm went berserk a day after I bought it. It would even alarm itself and go off while I was driving the car! It turns out some of the wires were not connected properly and they had to go back in and rewire it. Now the car is fine and I haven't had any problem with the car alarm.
The chirping sound is to let you know there was a breach before it goes off. It also chirps when you deactivte the alarm to let you know there was a potential breach while you were away.
It also sound like you have the passive alarm feature too (It re-armes itself 30 seconds after the door closes). I have it as well and it is annoying sometimes (when you need to pump gas) but you can turn that feature off.
Good Luck!!
2007-03-01 03:05:04 · answer #2 · answered by Noire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm anything but a car expert. But wind shield wipers are installed by the car company and the manufactures are going to realize, hopefully, that hardly anyone waits till their windshield wipers are completely down. Thus a wind shield wiper that isn't all the way down causing the car alarm to go off, would be found when they test all the little things like that. It could be a faulty alarm system that you haven't noticed until now, sense you recently bought the car.
I'd go with your car dealer on this on, that is until they want to sell you an entirely new alarm system to finance their Spring break cruise. But nonetheless, they'll be able to tell you why your alarm goes off at 4am.
2007-02-27 17:49:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I seriously doubt that the wipers could cause your alarm to malfunction, the majority of stock car alarms only go off if a door or the trunk is opened without a key when the alarm is activated.
2007-02-27 17:44:47 · answer #4 · answered by ItsaMeMario 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont know abt the windshield wipers ( not powerful enough to vibrate a car nearby and if they are you got one hell of a wiper system), but my low tuned exhaust on my silverado has blown a few circuits in alarm systems, not to mention also in the owners of said systems! :-D
2007-02-27 17:52:37 · answer #5 · answered by JBC 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋