Problem with OEM alarm

NIGHTHAWKSI · 12-12-2006, 02:34 PM

i will start off my saying i have an 06 si with a viper alarm installed (never had a problem with it). Correct me if I am wrong, but the OEM alarm will not arm itself. After i had the viper installed i just unlocked the OEM alarm and put the key in a drawer and used the smaller grey key (so i dont have a large keychain) without the buttons to start the car and the viper remote for an alarm . Anyway, i unlock my car like normal this morning (with just the viper remote) and go to work and lock my car when i go in the building. When i go to lunch, i walk up to my car and press unlock, and he OEM alarm goes off. i try to put the grey key into the ignition to shut it off ad the alarm keeps going! so at this point i am on the phone with my brother to bring me the black key with buttons to disable the OEM alarm. in the meantime it shuts off after about 3 minutes, but i cannot open the doors or else it will go off again. so my question is....how would the OEM alarm be armed if the only key for it is at my house? how come putting a key in the ignition would not turn the alarm off?...and i did take to notice i was parked next to a honda pilot (wasn't there when i parked this morning), when the owner of the pilot locked there car would it possibly of armed mine? i dont understand how this could have happened....

Hybrid_Customs · 12-12-2006, 10:31 PM

My car does the same thing. It happens even once in a while. For some to most cars when you use the key in the door to unlock it that will disarm the OEM alarm.Did you install it? The reason I ask is that there is a wire for the factory disarm and if that is not hooked up then it may do that.

NIGHTHAWKSI · 12-13-2006, 08:59 AM

i did not install the viper alarm, but i was under the asumption that if i unlock te car the OEM alarm and just use the viper keypad, i will not have to worry about the OEM one since it does not arm itself. i didnt try to put the key in the door, i did try to start the car (thinking the key in the steering column would shut it off). i didnt even think about the door.

Civic4u · 12-13-2006, 10:37 AM

There a adaptor switch that read from your OEM alarm system and generic brand. I have two alarm systems. It recognized both system. I don't know what exactly what it called because i have a professional installer put it in the car. Got it at Tweeter store.

12-12-2006, 02:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
NIGHTHAWKSI Senior Member Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: long island Age: 23 Posts: 14,735 Ian iTrader: 13 / 100%	Problem with OEM alarm i will start off my saying i have an 06 si with a viper alarm installed (never had a problem with it). Correct me if I am wrong, but the OEM alarm will not arm itself. After i had the viper installed i just unlocked the OEM alarm and put the key in a drawer and used the smaller grey key (so i dont have a large keychain) without the buttons to start the car and the viper remote for an alarm . Anyway, i unlock my car like normal this morning (with just the viper remote) and go to work and lock my car when i go in the building. When i go to lunch, i walk up to my car and press unlock, and he OEM alarm goes off. i try to put the grey key into the ignition to shut it off ad the alarm keeps going! so at this point i am on the phone with my brother to bring me the black key with buttons to disable the OEM alarm. in the meantime it shuts off after about 3 minutes, but i cannot open the doors or else it will go off again. so my question is....how would the OEM alarm be armed if the only key for it is at my house? how come putting a key in the ignition would not turn the alarm off?...and i did take to notice i was parked next to a honda pilot (wasn't there when i parked this morning), when the owner of the pilot locked there car would it possibly of armed mine? i dont understand how this could have happened....

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12-12-2006, 10:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
Hybrid_Customs Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Fresno, CA Posts: 243 David Oakley iTrader: 0 / 0%	My car does the same thing. It happens even once in a while. For some to most cars when you use the key in the door to unlock it that will disarm the OEM alarm.Did you install it? The reason I ask is that there is a wire for the factory disarm and if that is not hooked up then it may do that.

12-13-2006, 08:59 AM	#3 (permalink)
NIGHTHAWKSI Senior Member Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: long island Age: 23 Posts: 14,735 Ian iTrader: 13 / 100%	i did not install the viper alarm, but i was under the asumption that if i unlock te car the OEM alarm and just use the viper keypad, i will not have to worry about the OEM one since it does not arm itself. i didnt try to put the key in the door, i did try to start the car (thinking the key in the steering column would shut it off). i didnt even think about the door.

12-13-2006, 10:37 AM	#4 (permalink)
Civic4u Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Humble, TX Posts: 6,670 iTrader: 7 / 100%	There a adaptor switch that read from your OEM alarm system and generic brand. I have two alarm systems. It recognized both system. I don't know what exactly what it called because i have a professional installer put it in the car. Got it at Tweeter store.