sooooo, which part of Gosnells do you live in?

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JDM version 3 STi RA

Surely abs would still lock the car with the key..... even if the brant is disarmed

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It's your car, It's your story,
So don't let someone else write the book.... MCM

The Brant is still armed, the siren is off only.
The bonnet switch was rusty, no idea why servicing the car would have any effect other than opening and closing the bonnet.

The original Subaru security system will still allow the car to be locked and unlocked with the key, having a rusty or fucked bonnet sensor has nothing to do with a work shop opening and closing a bonnet

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Car: C Red S13 Silvia 2.3l 400+rwhp-SOLD
Daily ae82 4age corolla (light mods)-Sold
Daily:SWB GQ Patrol
Will be a 03-04 STI next

yes it still locks and unlocks fine, just no siren for now which i still have the alarm key to turn back on when i want like parking my car in northbridge on a saturday night for example

yeh i dont think the service had anything to do with it, just a coincidence is all

Doug is right, servicing won't affect the alarm. Iffy alarm switch can be the cause of the false alarms after opening/closing the bonnet.

Happened to me after I did one of my monthly checks under the bonnet - never thought to link the false alarm to the bonnet switch until someone told me to check it.

If this doesn't give it away ^^^...

When the switch is in that condition, it is quite common for the cold/moist mornings to play a part in car alarms falsing. Doesn't matter if it's Brant, Autowatch, Cyclops etc.. First thing I'd replace the bonnet switch, and check that the new one is properly adjusted. The bonnet needs to put enough pressure on it to move, but not for it to bend as well. I don't remember flipping switches on the circuit board having anything to do with identifying/diagnosing faulty door switches and specifically which one, as the alarm module reads it from a common wire (like that one that goes to your interior light.) It's worth trying the bonnet switch thing for a few days, then go from there. If it still false alarms, next try disconnecting the pressure/impact sensor - from memory we use to position the sensor module in near the drivers side kick panel. It has been years now since I was fitting these, but I'll keep an eye out for any literature I may still have lying around the house somewhere (in case my memory is failing me...).

How exactly did you dent your roof??

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By gracefully climbing on my wheel,crawling across my window and ever so gently placing my ass on the roof....... no jumping was involved

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broken wannabe racecar
Wagon daily that has replaced said broken wannabe racecar

L.O.L.

The whole Brant alarm system is Subaru cancer. The quality of the product, the connectors used, the install, the fact that they use red wire for earth and run it a metre across the car for no reason, the use of 2mm wire to interrupt a 6mm power feed, the rusty switches are all shit. The whole thing needs to be ripped out with great vengeance and furious anger and thrown in the rubbish bin where it belongs.

Not specific to only the car we are talking about here, but each and every one of them sooner or later will give frustrating faults. If I had to list the top ten things that makes late model Subaru cars unreliable the first nine would be alarm/immobilizer systems.