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Last weekend I changed my centre console insert to the storage type to remove the ash tray.  In doing so I disconnected and reconnecte the electric window switches to move the switched to the new insert.  Since then my alarm has been going off at anything from a few minutes to hours later.  I have taken the whole centre console out and checked any visible wiring plus the microswitch on the locking storage compartment/arm rest which is OK.

The battery is new and there are no other apparent new electrical faults and the only known fault is that none for the interior light and sun visor lights to the top of the front screen work (broken wire or bad earth I'm thinking) which was a fault when I bought it last September.

 

Any ideas folks?

By the way the UK alarm system had an additional (loud) siren, not sure in which other countries this is OE.

Edited by ½cwt
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12 hours ago, ½cwt said:

Last weekend I changed my centre console insert to the storage type to remove the ash tray.  In doing so I disconnected and reconnecte the electric window switches to move the switched to the new insert.  Since then my alarm has been going off at anything from a few minutes to hours later.  I have taken the whole centre console out and checked any visible wiring plus the microswitch on the locking storage compartment/arm rest which is OK.

The battery is new and there are no other apparent new electrical faults and the only known fault is that none for the interior light and sun visor lights to the top of the front screen work (broken wire or bad earth I'm thinking) which was a fault when I bought it last September.

 

Any ideas folks?

By the way the UK alarm system had an additional (loud) siren, not sure in which other countries this is OE.

 

If you scan the car with a Porsche specific tool, it can tell you what triggered the last ten alarm trips.

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Trying to get access to a Porsche scanner at a weekend but I'm working away from home during the week so can't get to places in normal business hours.

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