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noahstar1

Ford GT anti theft alarm malfunction

I'm facing an issue with my 2017 Ford GT with a gasoline engine. It has 33980 km on the clock. The anti-theft alarm system seems to be malfunctioning. I get an error stored in the error memory, and the alarm system is completely without function. I've checked the battery, but it seems fine. Any ideas?

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finnhoffmann2

I had a similar problem with my GT. Does the error memory relate to the immobilizer, perhaps? My alarm was going off randomly. Could be that your alarm system is coded to activate optical locking, meaning the indicators flash when it arms. This can sometimes cause issues.

noahstar1 (Author)

Optical locking? I'm not familiar with that term. Could you explain that a bit more? And was the immobilizer the cause of your false alarm?

finnhoffmann2

Yes, optical locking means the turn signals flash when you lock the car. It's a feature some cars have. In my case, I ended up taking it to a workshop. They said that the alarm was triggering due to some weird setting related to that. They recoded some settings and that fixed it.

noahstar1 (Author)

Thank you for the tip! I took it to the workshop, and you were spot on. The alarm system was indeed coded to activate optical locking, which was causing the issue. Recoding it cost me 45€ and solved the problem!

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