Fookin alarm keeps going off. Stopped at girlfriends last night and a neighbour has rang me 3 times to tell me about the bloody racket emitting from the shed. I plugged the optimate in yesterday, so i know the battery was dead. Is it normal for datatool alarms to do this or is it faulty? Will be stripping it off when i get time, but in the meantime....
Yes it does that when battery is low or flat. The alarm has a rechargeable battery inside and if the bike battery is flat the alarm survives with his own battery .... until that goes flat as well but in the meantime it blips to let you know that the battery is going flat. I had a datatool alarm on my R1 and was drayning the battery all the times so ended up removing it.
Its not beeping, its going full tilt and annoying neighbours. Its coming off. Self arming feckin nuisance.
Put it in winter mode (aka service mode). On the S4, from the disarmed state, turn on the ignition, hold both buttons in on the fob at the same time, after around 10 seconds you will hear a beep. Turn off the ignition; it's now all diss armed until you switch the ignition on again. Or you could try a hammer!
I had one on a mille before but the bike cover used to set the proximity senser off , so I used to arm immobilizer only
Just had a quick look to despike it. Unplugged loom,internal battery and inline fuse. There is 8 black wires coming out of the unit which all appear to tag onto rear light, rear LH indicator, rear RH indicator and alarm led at rear. No wires going anywhere else apart from feed via inline fuse!??? Looks like an easy removal. Oh, and a pair to a switch under the seat.
Do what I did Blaggers, take it off and put it in a plastic bag in the garage ! All they do is fook up and drain your battery !! or leave you stranded
Exactly what i'm gonna do mate. Just got to wait fot the optimate to do its job, then i'm in there with the snips and just double check it all works after the snips attack. Lol.
I had alarm on the R6 let me down then the 1098 alarm was draining the battery in two days, a waste of time IMO as nobody even cares if they go off.... appart from your fella next door
I think that old Datatools had two multiplugs - a block of six and a block of eight wires. The six is the good stuff (immobilser circuits), and if it is well fitted it should be slightly painful to remove - as all wires are black. A 'good' fitter may also remove a section of the OE wiring where it feeds in/out of the alarm to make it harder to bypass. Therefore a soldering iron, heatshrink and some new wire may be required for a tidy removal.
