Does anybody else fidning it annoying that our cars make no noise after pressing the lock button twice. My old car always did it, and now I'm always worried i didnt press the lock button.
Does anybody know how I could add a little noise after pressing the lock button twice, and maybe a little light that goes on?
I thought it was wrong to but my car doesn't do it (99) Both 99 and 00 books says NOTHING about it honking when pressed twice. SO im not really worried....
I do however recalling something about not all the cougars had an antitheft system, some just had power locks etc... that being said, if you locked the doors, the lights wouldnt flash, the lights flashing means the antitheft is active, and they also wont flash if the hood, truck or either door is open when you hit the lock button....
but, i could be wrong, check the manual... ( i dont have one so im going off memory here )
I do however recalling something about not all the cougars had an antitheft system, some just had power locks etc... that being said, if you locked the doors, the lights wouldnt flash, the lights flashing means the antitheft is active, and they also wont flash if the hood, truck or either door is open when you hit the lock button....
but, i could be wrong, check the manual... ( i dont have one so im going off memory here )
I have a 99 MTX. When I push lock, as long as everything is closed, the lights flash. Once, twice, a million times, doesn't matter, no honking, just the light flash.
Now one time I had my hood open and there was a little black button somewhere (I assumed it was a switch that was pressed to tell the car that the hood was closed) anyways, my friend pushed it a few times and then whenever I hit any button on the remote, the horn would honk. NOTE the remote didn't function properly, if I pushed lock the horn would honk, but it would NOT lock the doors.
Anyways, after random pushing of this button once, twice, 3 times, I finally got my car back to normal. So I assume you can in some way use this button to make the honking feature work, but I sure didn't find out how that time, and I'm a little worried to fool around with it again.
i was playing with that black button on the top of my radiator support. I noticed the hood didnt push it down once it was closed all the way, so i went to the autopart store and bought those rubber vacuum caps for 1 dollar, and cut to size and put it on the button. Now my alarm flashes and honks!
i was playing with that black button on the top of my radiator support. I noticed the hood didnt push it down once it was closed all the way, so i went to the autopart store and bought those rubber vacuum caps for 1 dollar, and cut to size and put it on the button. Now my alarm flashes and honks!
That's a pretty useful find - it might be safe to say that all of our alarms should be flashing and honking, and if it isn't there's a problem somewhere...
my car used to flash when i locked it but now does not flash, but i can still hear the doors lock and the alarm light blinks... all doors are shut and trunk blah blah blah.. any ideas?
I would have to say that on of the switchs are not being pushed or are bad. Like the one under the hood maybe?
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