I know its an immobiliser but i read that it should also have an interior intrusion thingy. I locked my with windows open.... Waited more than a mnute for activation...i put my hand inside, tapped on the steering wheel, banged on the inside door panel....nothing. No alarm no alerts. Is it simply a keyless door entry. I even kicked the tire, nothing! Is there a code that needs activation!

 

only time I ever hear my alarm was when I changed my battery =) other than that I don't know what it does...

 

I have a cabrio and if I set the alarm top down and reach in to open center console alarm goes off before I even get to the console, with the annoying VW bug horn, i think tapping on steering wheel or door panel won't do it, also if you open the glove box it will go off.

 

thats my point…with the motion sensor when i reach in into the ****pit throguh the window it should already set off the alarm.

 

far as I know, there's no motion sensor

 

I set the alarm top down and reach in to open center console alarm goes off before I even get to the console

 

there is one, in the cabrio at least.....

 

There is brother. There is a motion sensor for both coupe and cabrio.

 

that is what I figured...

 

The alarm motion sensor is under the center console, it's a radar proximity sensor,

 

you guys cost me a little pride, and taught me a lesson. My son swore up and down that the alarm went off as he reached for the console lid (cab with top down and doors locked). I insisted he had to have reached the lid and began opening it, otherwise the alarm would not have been triggered.

I hate being wrong, but I'm getting used to it.

 

lol, that's how we all learn

 

Thats it now i have to vring my car to the dealer. With doors locked, windows open i reach in and no response from the car. That radar proximity my be damaged or has to be activated.

 

Radar proximity is NOT motion sensing (in the sense of moving the car). There is no motion sensing on the car alarm - as far as I know. There is detection of intrusion, opening doors (via some non-remote method), or getting in the way of the internal sensor that detects a presence - maybe one could call that motion sensing. But that internal sensor only covers a specific region inside the car.

There is some set of conditions or setting where the internal radar sensing system is disabled, for the purposes of you being able to lock the car up with the windows down, but have a pet or kid stay in the car, lets say. I seem to remember reading about this somewhere.

 

There is a motion sensor. In order to disable press the lock button on the remote twice in succesion. Page 24 to 25 owners manual...a member told me this in another forum