OK picture the scene…8:15am, Sunday morning - nice, quiet suburban area…
I pull up on the drive nice and steady keeping the Nur Spec mellow and quiet, freewheeling the last 40 yards to my drive so as not to agitate any sleeping neighbours. All is nice and quiet, not even a dog walker in sight.
I get out the car and hit my keyfob button to lock the car as I walk to the front door. Then for no apparent reason the alarm starts to sound so I turn round and hit the button again to turn the alarm off…hahaha…no such luck. So then I try it again…nope! I try again…nope! I try the valet mode…nope!
With every scream from the siren another curtain twitches as the neighbours wake up one by one to see what’s going on. The strange thing is that every time I press the keyfob button the doors lock/unlock and the indicators flash twice/once accordingly. All the time the siren is screaming it’s own little war cry under the bonnet.
Anyway, to cut a long story short I end up opening the bonnet (great….even more noise – bringing the 75 year old femme fatale from across the road out onto her driveway to investigate further) and wrapping my jacket around the siren to try to hush things down a few decibels while I investigate.
Well there’s nothing obviously amiss although I am no alarm expert. I’m contemplating cutting all the wires and pulling the b*$%ard thing out but then a mixture of immobilization worries and a realization I left nearly all my tools at my dad’s place last night soon quashed that idea.
So eventually I end up wrapping an old towel around the siren and driving down the road like some thieving scumbag making off with a lovely looking Supra headed for a dodgy lock up somewhere (all the while the siren is still merrily screaming away)!!!
I am now out at my old man’s house trying to decide what to do (the siren stopped about ten minutes after I started driving away). Do I cut the wires and pull the siren out? Do I leave it and assume it was a fluke incident? Do I fill the siren with expanding foam whilst tracking down a replacement or some official Clifford advice?
Thoughts please people…. anyone had anything similar before??
Cheers
Dan