Re: Can car alarm be set off by cell phone?

["PizzaHEMI" <negrispam@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yest it can......I had an older cell phone that set my alarm off all of the
time....not sure why, but I confirmed it was the problem.


"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Anything's possible...especially if the alarm has some kind of sonic
> device.
> Put the cell phone in the car windows up in a garage and call the
> cellphone...try different ring tones & volume settings see what happens.
>
> "DanK" <djk104@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | We have a 2004 Toyota with a factory installed car alarm.  The alarm
> | goes off randomly.  Sometimes a few times a day, some days not at all.
> | No physical disturbance is setting it off (it does it even sitting in
> | our closed garage).  However, we noticed that it seems to happen when
> | my daughter's cell phone is in the car.  I am still trying to confirm
> | this relationship (by having the phone in there, or not having it in
> | there, and seeing when the alarm goes off).
> |
> | Could the cell phone be setting off the alarm?  It's nothing obvious,
> | like the phone being on "vibrate" mode, and receiving a call.  Could
> | the phone be sending a radio signal that is at a frequency that sets
> | off the alarm (like the frequency of the emergency button on the key
> | pad)?
> |
> | We had it at the Toyota dealer, but they didn't find anything (this was
> | before I made the cellphone connection).
> |
> | Thanks for any help!
> |
> | DanK
> |
> |
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