Weird thing my alarm did today, looking for opinions

[72hemi]

Ok so today I go out to my Viper and my clicker won't unlock the car. So my first thought the battery in the clicker is dead. So I go grab my other 2 clickers to try them and neither one of them work! So I am a little worried at this point, so I open the rear hatch with the key (expecting the alarm to go off) and when the hatch opens the alarm doesn't go off (and yes the alarm was set because I had set it a couple hours earlier and the doors were still locked), so I reach in and open the drivers door (thinking maybe the alarm will go off when I open the door), and nope the alarm didn't go off then either. So I get in the car, put the key in the ignition and the car starts right up. So I shut it down closed everything up and tried to set the alarm with the clicker once again and it worked, then I tried to unlock it and it worked again, so I re-set the alarm one more time and the car has been fine the rest of the day.

So any thoughts on what kind of electrical gremlins I have?

 

[AFL in NJ]

Is your car's name Christine?

Regards,
Aaron

 

[Steve-Indy]

Can't tell for sure...is it a 2001? How old is the car's battery? Was it parked near any high voltage lines or TV towers etc.?

 

[jdeft1]

My thought is you failed to set it the first time (when you thought you had!)..... Hope it was just a weird hiccup.

 

[72hemi]

Thanks Aaron.

It is a 2001 ACR, and I am certain I set it the first time (I heard it honk and saw the lights flash).

The battery is about 4 years old and is on my list of things to replace before VOI this year.

 

[AFL in NJ]

I've had my Viper do some odd stuff when there's lots of RFI around. I don't know if it just would receive partial signal, but at times I'd be locked out for a bit, then all of the sudden the remote would work. I replaced the battery in the remote and it made no difference. I just don't understand why there's so much RFI in places around the Bay Area.

A battery is a pretty small "to-do" list before VOI 12. We do need to plan that door adjusting session we talked about last year too.

Regards,
Aaron

 

[Magicboy2]

My Gen I had some alarm issues when I got it. Needed a new control module (ordered from Tator) and no problems since.

 

[costanZo]

My Gen I had some alarm issues when I got it. Needed a new control module (ordered from Tator) and no problems since.

How much did it cost? I guess my alarm system works in the sense where I can lock and unlock the car, but no alarm is triggered when the car is locked and you lift the hood or open the glass hatch for the trunk..

 

[ramedjr]

Have you ever set the alarm and about 3 hours later the alarm goes off by itself outside and in my garage.

 

[72hemi]

Never had that problem.