I was woken up to the sound of what seemed to be my pride and joy being stolen. I ran outside and there was nobody around yet the alarm was blaring out at 3am. This is the first time this has ever happened in 1 year since new. The windows were all closed. Has anyone else had this with their Gen 4?
Not required beyond the black stump! N.B. The Australian expression 'black stump' is the name for an imaginary point beyond which the country is considered remote or uncivilised, an abstract marker of the limits of established settlement.
So I figured out the cause when I unlocked the car in daylight. I have a label on the steering wheel attached with sticky tape, and it appears that at 3am that had fallen off the steering wheel and landed on the driver's seat. Once the car is locked, the alarm is armed and the ultrasonic sensors (those two holes just near the dome light in the ceiling) would have detected the label falling off, and hence triggered the alarm. So now I know my alarm works (as do my neighbours). Reading through the manual, it cautions on 'hanging' anything in the car such as a wind chime which might trigger the sensors through movement.
I think I've worked out that mine hasn't got an alarm - my Manual (nor the USA Manual) doesn't talk about it either, whereas the UK/Euro Manual has lots of mentions of an alarm. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BLACK Stump - when I drove a VOLVO - 12 years ago:
We also have double locking, which prevents unlocking/opening the door from inside, so if a thief breaks a window they have to climb in through it to get inside the car.
Isn't that how everybody gets in and out of cars in cars in California, or have I been watching too much TV?
My Gen 4 alarm went off some months back after a long journey, hasn't done it since and I assumed that something moved within the car but nothing was obvious eg the tonneau cover was still in place. I still get regular cat paw prints from front to rear (why they can't just walk around I don't know) so I don't think a cat can set it off - unless locked inside.
