KehoeAutomotive

So I'm tooling along on a nice sunny day and my car was suddenly possessed by a demon.

The horns start honking, the hazard lights turn on, the headlights pods pop up and the headlights turn on. The car otherwise seems to run fine.

I drive home getting lots of weird looks and I disconnect the battery to go grab my service manual and and some tools. As soon as I hook the battery back up everything starts working fine.

I can't diagnosis an electrical problem that's not there. Anyone have this happen to them before? On a search I've heard about the alarm going off but that would not turn on the headlights... would it? Ugh!!

Thanks!

seven1997

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Yes!

Monkman33

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Factory alarm

Montego

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yes when the factory alarm goes off the car honks and the lights go up and down. Its actually quite the show but you already know that as you had front row seat to the extended version

bajaman

So now you need to understand what is setting your alarm off. It SEEMS like the FSM has a section on troubleshooting this system...
I can't find my damned manual....grrrrrrr!

KehoeAutomotive

Got it. Thanks guys! I have a factory service manual from a dealer that was going under. And it is on paper! How old school is that?

I did a search on "alarm & alarm bypass" and came up with nothing. Anyone know of a link that might have some useful information? If not I'm sure I can figure it out.

ricardo.benin

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Are rx7's known to have this problem

basedd_z32tt

I was hoping this was a real horror story :/, did u fix it yet?

KehoeAutomotive

Not yet. I did some searching on this site to see how others have repaired it but my seaching came up with nothing. I'm not really sure what keywords to use. I search alarm and I get so much information I'm overwhelmed with info.

I decided to wait for the alarm to go off again and then I can track it down with my shop manual wiring book.

I'll get it. I'm not worried. I have pleanty of extra cars to drive while I tinker with it.

SWAT81

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you need to get holy water and pour it into your coolant reservoir to chase the demons away

SleepieDaze

best idea yet