# Car Alarm won't stop going off!

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-alarm-wont-stop-going-off/66563>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [July 25, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-alarm-wont-stop-going-off/66563 "2011-07-25T14:19:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![emirosen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@emirosen](https://community.cartalk.com/u/emirosen)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-alarm-wont-stop-going-off/66563/1 "2011-07-25T14:19:18Z")

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I have a 2000 Honda Accord with 170,000 miles on it. Runs great. The car alarm goes off randomly in spurts. Some days it goes off multiple times. Sometimes it will go a week or two without going off at all. The battery has been replaced in hopes of solving the problem. That didn’t work. So, I have taking out the alarm sounding device so as to not disturb the neighbors. However, I find that dangerous and it doesn’t solve the problem of the persistent alarm. I can tell when it is going off by the flashing lights. I thought it was the clicker, so I switched that and that didn’t help either. Help!

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**Author:** ![SteveF](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/stevef/32/2_2.png) [@SteveF](https://community.cartalk.com/u/SteveF)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-alarm-wont-stop-going-off/66563/2 "2011-07-25T14:38:42Z")

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What can you tell us about this alarm? Factory installed or aftermarket? And why do you find it dangerous to not have a working alarm?

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**Author:** ![emirosen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce7236/32.png) [@emirosen](https://community.cartalk.com/u/emirosen)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-alarm-wont-stop-going-off/66563/3 "2011-07-25T14:49:02Z")

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The alarm is factory installed. I don’t mind that the alarm isn’t sounding, but it is the horn that doesn’t work as well because that piece has been removed. Seems dangerous to not have a horn.

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**Author:** ![shadowfax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/shadowfax/32/13026_2.png) [@shadowfax](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadowfax)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-alarm-wont-stop-going-off/66563/4 "2011-07-25T18:33:30Z")

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Is your dome light on when the alarm is going off?

Oftentimes an alarm will go off because a door-closed sensor isn’t working properly, and is telling the car that the door is open when it isn’t.

I have no idea how Honda hooks up their factory alarm, but a cheap and easy way to do it is to hook it in to the dome light circuit. That way if any door opens (or a door sensor claims one has opened) the dome light comes on, which trips the alarm. Wouldn’t surprise me if that’s how yours is hooked up.

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**Author:** ![pleasedodgevan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@pleasedodgevan2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pleasedodgevan2)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2011, 7:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/car-alarm-wont-stop-going-off/66563/5 "2011-07-25T19:48:14Z")

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I had that problem so I stopped putting the keys in my pocket when at home. At work, I didn’t care because it’s all noise there.