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

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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