I hear you Scratcher, I'm beginning to like mine less and less. Do those in the know of such things know if it's possible to disable the 'auto set' function so that I can decided if and when I want to alarm it.
In fairness Chrissy, mine has been pretty good, touchwood, but generally they're prone to being twitchy. My grief with it is that I find the fact that it must be set or it will just set itself anyway just a little bit irritating. Add that up to every time I switch off the ignition and it becomes considerably more irritating. It also defaults to trembler alarm, which becomes something else to address and switch off after the alarm has set, if I need to move the bike around. Personally, I'd prefer to make these decisions myself as and when I need them.
I've got the honda averto fitted and other than disabling the rear seat pod contacts it's been fine. I can turn it off to work on bike and then when I've finished and put it away I can turn it on again. I wouldn't be bothered about an alarm though if the bike hadn't have come with one as the last blade I had was fitted with a datatool alarm that was for ever going wrong.
Does the S4 not have a service mode? My S3 had a service mode so that you could move it, disconnect battery etc and work on the bike without the bike arming or triggering. The only annoying thing was it used to make a brief "pip" sound every 30 seconds. Funny tho going into DK bikes and hearing all the alarms "pipping" randomly. Sounded like bloody church bells going off lol.
The alarm should only passively arm (immob & ign trigger only) factory defalt setting unless if has been set to alarm fully arm passively in the software switches. It also has a ferry mode as well. Link to the users manual: http://rcms.co.uk/WebRoot/Namesco/Shops/950000402/4E1C/7D9B/7432/9D56/5338/C0A8/1909/87F7/s4_ug.pdf Barry
never liked bike alarms, to much that goes wrong with them always worked out it's better to use big chains, big dogs, big locks, big bolts if they get past that lot they're not going to be bothered about a little siren on a bike. The only sirens that work are the mains powered ones off your home alarm, not the little 4 inch sq ones, the type that look like a train hooter, where they're so loud it's painful to be in the same room. And in the street who's ever bothered to take notice of yet another alarm going off. Rip them out and not bother, or get a tracker.
