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  1. Houston

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    The Immobilizer icon flashes whenever the fob is removed. Is this normal and, if so, to what purpose? It would seem to be a ineffective deterant unless the potential thief had a owners manual handy to explain what the signal meant.
     
    #1 Houston, Aug 6, 2005
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    When you say that you remove the fob, is this because you're exiting the car? Do you have Smart-Key?
    Personally, I have never put the fob in the dash.

    Is the Immobilizer icon the key with the exclamation point through it? I would think that any sentient human would see that thing flash and know that it's a key and there's an exclamation point. That probably means that it's locked and alarmed.

    On the other hand, I had a friend who wired an LED to flash every three seconds. He poked it through his dashboard and it looked identical to the flashing LEDs of legitimate car alarms.
     
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    I do not have a "Smart Key" therefore the fob is out of the dash slot whenever I leave the car. The icon is a car with a key through it. No exclamation point. Unless our thief had eyes like a hawk and was indeed a sentient human being, the icon is merely a flashing orange light and not particularly threatening. To top it off my car is not equipped with an alarm system!!
     
    #3 Houston, Aug 8, 2005
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    8) Your car may not have an alarm. However, it does have an engine imoblizer.

    Ben
     
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    Actually, it does have the alarm, just that you didn't pay for it, so it is turned off. It can be turned on easily using the scanner.
     
    #5 DanMan32, Aug 11, 2005
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