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Curious dead battery / car alarm problem.

So yesterday I left my car lights on for the whole day. When I got back

to the car, the battery was dead.

I managed to jump the car with cables of a colleague and thought I would be fine.

However, now it happens that everytime I open the door some kind of car

alarm would start for about 20 seconds.

The thing is, I don't have a car alarm! Well, I was never told I had one, and I don't have any electronic device to turn it off.

Do you have any idea on what I should do?

BTW, I have a 2004 Chevrolet Aveo I bought from CarMax in December

2005.

Thanks, Carlo

Reply to
camelzi
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find the fuse to the alarm and unhook.

Reply to
catfish

Good idea! But how do I do that? I cannot even locate the alarm box!

Any ideas?

Thanks, Carlo

Reply to
camelzi

Yes, bring the car to your local repair service and ask them to remove the fuse for you. I was in a similar situation with a used car I purchased and had an auto repair place remove the alarm. Cost me $30 which was cheaper than my messing around with things of which I had no knowledge and possibly causing other problems.

Bob

Reply to
RobertM

I actually tried the crapshoot of going to CarMax and -guess what?- they unhooked it for free in 10 minutes.

WAY TO GO CARMAX!!!

Thanks for your help, everybody!

Carlo

Reply to
camelzi

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