Man, it's so friggin' weird that you posted this problem the other day, because now I'm having the same issue.


Check this out - driving through downtown Tallahassee after the big FSU-Florida game, in the middle of heavy traffic.

BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH My alarm starts going off as I'm driving down the road!!

So I pull over. Stop the engine, play with the ignition key. BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH no response. It keeps going off. I get out and look around. I am becoming a spectacle.

I put the key in the driver's door, BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH. So now I'm getting pretty pissed off. Finally, it stops. The heatlights keep flashing. I think it's finally over. Ten more seconds elapse then BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH again. It won't stop. I frantically open the hood to look for the horn. It's not the regular horn, no siree it's hidden behind under the windshield wiper cover.

So, it stops again. I go to get my tools out of the trunk and as soon as I open the trunk BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH it starts all over again. I grab a tiny little crescent wrench out of my tool kit and go to work on the battery terminal. It loosens finally and I pull it off.

Silence.

Ahh, but what to do now? I'm in the middle of a sidestreet and so far I'm not blocking any traffic. So I figure I'll just wait for a second and re-connect the battery and hope that a good reboot will make the car happy.

I cross my fingers and reconnect the terminal.

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BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH


Curses!

So I pop it back off again. By now a guy who was driving by to help has stopped to see if he can be of assistance. Of course he couldn't because how does one fix a spastic MB alarm system in the middle of the street?

One doesn't.

Finally, I admit defeat. I give the guy $5 for stopping and bid him farewell. Now I must suck it up and drive my car back home and get my trusty '78 Volare so I can continue on to the gig.

I reconnect the battery. So far so good. I close the hood. BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH . Oh well. Time to roll. I get in and start the car after putting my tools away. I drive two miles back to my house in rain and traffic sounding like the polezei the whole way (with 30 second breaks in between).

I park the car in my drive waBlannHH BlannHH BlannHH y and jump out and disconnect the BlannHH BlannHH BlannHH battery.

Sigh.


Time to go to work and leave this nightmare for Sunday.



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