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Anti-Theft Alarm - Vehicles With: Integral Battery
Perimeter Alarm
The perimeter alarm is a deterrent against unauthorized access to your vehicle through the doors and the hood.
Interior Sensors
The interior sensors are in the overhead console.
When you lock your vehicle and arm the alarm, the sensors are designed to detect any movement inside your vehicle.
Note:
Do not cover the interior sensors.
Inclination Sensors
When you lock your vehicle and arm the alarm, the sensors are designed to detect an attempt to raise your vehicle, for example to remove a wheel or to tow it away.
Battery Back-up Sounder (If Equipped)
The battery back-up sounder is an additional alarm component that has its own battery and sounds a siren if the vehicle battery or the battery back-up sounder is disconnected. The system arms when you lock your vehicle and the ignition is off.
Triggering the Alarm
When armed, the alarm is triggered in any of the following ways:- If someone opens a door, the liftgate or the hood without a valid key or remote control.
- If you switch your vehicle on without a correctly coded key.
- If the interior sensors detect movement inside your vehicle.
- If the inclination sensors detect an attempt to raise your vehicle.
- If someone disconnects the vehicle battery or the battery back-up sounder.
If the alarm is triggered, the alarm horn sounds for 30 seconds and the hazard flasher flashes for 5 minutes.
Any further attempts to carry out one of the above sounds the alarm again.
Full and Reduced Guard
Full Guard
Full guard is the standard setting.
In full guard, the interior sensors are on when you arm the alarm.
Note:
Do not arm the alarm with full guard if passengers, animals or other moving objects are inside your vehicle.
Reduced Guard
In reduced guard, the inclination and interior sensors are off when you arm the alarm.
Selecting Full or Reduced Guard
You can select full or reduced guard using the information display. See
General Information.
Ask on Exit (If Equipped)
You can set the information display to ask you each time which level of guard you wish to set.See
General Information.
Arming the Alarm
The alarm arms when you lock your vehicle and the ignition is off. See
Doors and Locks.
Disarming the Alarm
Vehicles Without Keyless Entry
Disarm and silence the alarm by unlocking the doors with the key and switching your vehicle on with a correctly coded key, or by unlocking the doors with the remote control.
Vehicles with Keyless Entry
Perimeter Alarm
Disarm and silence the alarm by unlocking the doors and switching your vehicle on, or by unlocking the doors with the remote control.
Note:
A valid passive key must be within the detection range of that door. See
Keyless Entry.
Category One Alarm
Disarm and silence the alarm by unlocking the doors and switching your vehicle on, or by unlocking the doors or the liftgate with the remote control.
Note:
A valid passive key must be within the detection range of that door. See
Keyless Entry.
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