Re: Car alarm failure on the 300C (how do you disable the alarm)

Sounds like a Microsoft style repair.


"General Schvantzkoph" <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.04.25.20.31.39.264192@xxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:59:42 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:

The alarm on my 06 300C failed on me yesterday disabling the car. The
alarm has gone of spontaneously a couple of times but it always recovered
before. Yesterday it failed and I couldn't get it to reset so I had the
car towed to the dealer.

The details of the failure are as follows. The car wouldn't respond to
the
keyless entry commands. When I opened the door with the key the alarm
went
off. Putting the key in the ignition wouldn't stop it and the car
wouldn't
start. To add insult to injury I couldn't get to the battery to
disconnect
it because the battery is in the trunk and the alarm system disabled the
truck button on the dash and the keyless entry buttons weren't working (I
tried both of my key rings so I don't think it's a problem with the
batteries in the key rings).

This was the most embarrassing kind of failure, I was in the parking lot
of an Audubon society bird sanctuary and they were having a lecture. You
can imagine how popular I was.

There must be a battery cable that comes from the trunk to engine
compartment, is there a place where this cable can be easily
disconnected?
Is there any sort of system reset button in the car?


I got my car back from the dealer, all they did was reset the computer.
Chrysler has had a few reports of similar failures but they haven't issued
an ECO yet. For now the only solution is to reset the system when the
computer locks up. For the benefit of others here is how you do it,

1) When the computer is locked up the normal methods of opening the trunk
are disabled, i.e. the button on the dash and the keyless remote. However
the back seat in the 300 folds down so it's possible to access the trunk
from the back seat. Once the back seat is down you can reach in and pull
the kidnap cable which opens the trunk.

2) The circuit breaker box is easily accessible, just lift up the carpet
and its right there. The left hand circuit breaker (it's black) controls
the power to the relevant computer (there are 30 computers in a 300, don't
know if they are all on the same circuit). You pull up the circuit breaker
and wait at least 10 minutes, then you reconnect the circuit and the
system should operate normally.




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