Hello out there - first posting although I've been using the advice given to others for a while now. I've a W210 E230 estate 97 R and it may have had a hard life in a previous existance. No more though, as it gets a good pampering but today I drove 6 miles, parked up and when I came back to the car after 40 mins ther was a wailing like a police siren coming from the fuse box where the STAR connector is. There was no flashing of lights just the whine which wasn't especially loud.
I reset unlocked - nothing - locked - it went quiet and then got in to drive off. After a mile or so there was a beep in the cockpit and the 'siren' went on its way again - one full cycle low and high then a beep, then off on another cycle. I stopped, took the key out lock/unlock, the 'siren' stopped for 400yrds then the same again. And the same twicwe more over 2 miles.
I went to an empty carpark, reset locked the car and went for a walk - nothing - not a peep. I unlock using the remote, daughter gets in back seat and without even ptting a key in the ignition off goes the 'alarm' again. After messing about resetting, I got home. This time I activated the internal courtesy lights to make sure that all the doors were closed and locked up. After 3 indicator flashes they then started doing an impression of a disco whilst the interior lights remained on - no alarm sound though. I did a final unlock/lock and she's sat outside for the last 6 hours armed like a ticking time bomb.
Question. I only got the new remote last weekend (£215). Prior to that it was on the thin emergency key. So the alarm and central locking have only been in use for a week. The first time I used the fob I could hear a very quiet 'pinging' from the fuse box area when the car was in an unlocked state. Lots of forum threads mention the alarm being on the passenger side - so is what I'm hearing the actual alarm?
Sorry about the info overload here.
I reset unlocked - nothing - locked - it went quiet and then got in to drive off. After a mile or so there was a beep in the cockpit and the 'siren' went on its way again - one full cycle low and high then a beep, then off on another cycle. I stopped, took the key out lock/unlock, the 'siren' stopped for 400yrds then the same again. And the same twicwe more over 2 miles.
I went to an empty carpark, reset locked the car and went for a walk - nothing - not a peep. I unlock using the remote, daughter gets in back seat and without even ptting a key in the ignition off goes the 'alarm' again. After messing about resetting, I got home. This time I activated the internal courtesy lights to make sure that all the doors were closed and locked up. After 3 indicator flashes they then started doing an impression of a disco whilst the interior lights remained on - no alarm sound though. I did a final unlock/lock and she's sat outside for the last 6 hours armed like a ticking time bomb.
Question. I only got the new remote last weekend (£215). Prior to that it was on the thin emergency key. So the alarm and central locking have only been in use for a week. The first time I used the fob I could hear a very quiet 'pinging' from the fuse box area when the car was in an unlocked state. Lots of forum threads mention the alarm being on the passenger side - so is what I'm hearing the actual alarm?
Sorry about the info overload here.
