does the 1990 legend have an alarm

[ccavd]

i bought my legend about 8 months ago, it is in very good condition and runs great. i have not had any problems with it since about a month ago, every once in a while i will here my car honking and the lights going on and off, sounds like an alarm to me, but it has no light or noise when you lock the doors or a remote. does it come standard in it or did someone put it in after it was made. but the wierd part about it is that when it goes off, there is no one around the car at all, so it goes off by itself . does anyone have any ideas on what it is?????

[ccavd]

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[Attoman01]

I have a 90 Legend too , im curious to see some responses because I have no remote either . Havent witnessed any alarm activity though.

[sam o nela]

Its a common malfunction for the security systems...

When you lock the car with your key, the system arms after about 15 seconds. If the doors, trunk, or hood are opened without disarming it, the alarm honks the horn...

If your alarm is malfunctioning, best thing to do for now is bypass is by bending the latch that monitors the hood....it is located over the driver's headlight...

bend the bracket so that the latch is always popped out and will no longer be pushed down by the hood.

Be warned, however, your alarm will no longer go off, leaving you vulnerable to theft...get an aftermarket one and have it professionally installed if you wish for something...

[ccavd]

Originally Posted by sam o nela

Its a common malfunction for the security systems...

When you lock the car with your key, the system arms after about 15 seconds. If the doors, trunk, or hood are opened without disarming it, the alarm honks the horn...

If your alarm is malfunctioning, best thing to do for now is bypass is by bending the latch that monitors the hood....it is located over the driver's headlight...

bend the bracket so that the latch is always popped out and will no longer be pushed down by the hood.

Be warned, however, your alarm will no longer go off, leaving you vulnerable to theft...get an aftermarket one and have it professionally installed if you wish for something...

would i beable to get a remote for it? but first do you know why it would just go off by itself. late at night i will lock my car like normal. i dont hear any sound that tells me the alarm is armed. ok after i go up to house and bring back a chair i will sit right in front of the car, and all of a sudden the alarm will go off, the horn and the lights will go on and off, and no one was around no car driving by or anyone walking by or anything it was just me and the car, and it still went off, so all i do is unlock the car with my key and it goes off when i unlock it, so i lock it back up and sometimes it will go off after that and sometimes it wont, do you know why it keeps doing that? and you said i can just bend the switch that would turn it on and off, isnt there more then just one switch that would turn the alram on and off? how do i know which one it is. can i just go the main alarm box and unplug it or pull the fuse for it? cause if i can get a remote to it and find out how it work and why it goes off all the time i would like to keep it cause your right my car is very vulnerable without, hold on i think my alarm is going off again LOL i hate this... k i back, but like i was saying, i would like to fix it and get a remote to it if i can so what is your best advise for me to that? oh and i went to many different site about my car, manuals, forums, dealers, mechanical sites, and many other ones and i could not find out anywhere where it says my car comes with an alarm, so maybe it is an after market one?

[sam o nela]

Actually bending the switch prevents the alarm from arming because the switch under the hood is not depressed...therefore no arm = no random triggers...

If it does it out of nowhere on its own, I would imagine that your computer is to blame...they can be found in the junkyard...but its always a crapshoot as they may have already been exposed to the elements