Just want to start off by saying hello to everyone, I've been a periodic lurker here for a while now, but finally made an account tonight.
As the title states, the alarm on my 2017 Elantra SE started randomly going off. We've had quite a few break-ins in my area and I just figured it was someone trying to open the doors...
After checking the area and finding no one, I locked the car and watched it for a few minutes. Sure enough, the alarm started going off by itself. I opened and closed each door, the hood, and the trunk and the problem still persisted.
After watching a youtube video, I tried finding the hood tamper switch, but couldn't as it is dark here or its one of those that's integrated in the latch. Instead of agitating my neighbors thru the night and possibly waking up to a dead battery, I decided to lock all the doors manually and disconnect the battery. This obviously solved the issue temporarily. I do have a few questions though. Is there a sensor for each door handle for the outside? I don't believe there's one on the outside handles because when I first bought the car, I tested each outside handle when the alarm was armed and the alarm wouldn't go off. I did however find out that if the alarm was armed and the handle was opened from the inside, it would trigger the alarm...HMMMM...
Here's the curve ball.
Every door handle besides the driver's door handle has been replaced... TWICE! Yes you read that correctly, TWICE! (under warranty thankfully)
My question is, does anyone know if the dealer will cover something like this? The car has 55k miles on it and should still be under the "60k bumper to bumper warranty". I put that in quotes because they haven't exactly covered everything bumper to bumper... (a headlight and brake light went out and condensation in the rear tail lights were not covered by the warranty... no biggie really, easy fix) Besides the door handles and the lights / foggy assembly, the car has been great. Does anyone have any experience with the dealer and this issue? I've done an advanced search and went through a few pages and couldn't find anything...any answers to this thread or links to threads with the same issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time for reading my post!
As the title states, the alarm on my 2017 Elantra SE started randomly going off. We've had quite a few break-ins in my area and I just figured it was someone trying to open the doors...
After checking the area and finding no one, I locked the car and watched it for a few minutes. Sure enough, the alarm started going off by itself. I opened and closed each door, the hood, and the trunk and the problem still persisted.
After watching a youtube video, I tried finding the hood tamper switch, but couldn't as it is dark here or its one of those that's integrated in the latch. Instead of agitating my neighbors thru the night and possibly waking up to a dead battery, I decided to lock all the doors manually and disconnect the battery. This obviously solved the issue temporarily. I do have a few questions though. Is there a sensor for each door handle for the outside? I don't believe there's one on the outside handles because when I first bought the car, I tested each outside handle when the alarm was armed and the alarm wouldn't go off. I did however find out that if the alarm was armed and the handle was opened from the inside, it would trigger the alarm...HMMMM...
Here's the curve ball.
Every door handle besides the driver's door handle has been replaced... TWICE! Yes you read that correctly, TWICE! (under warranty thankfully)
My question is, does anyone know if the dealer will cover something like this? The car has 55k miles on it and should still be under the "60k bumper to bumper warranty". I put that in quotes because they haven't exactly covered everything bumper to bumper... (a headlight and brake light went out and condensation in the rear tail lights were not covered by the warranty... no biggie really, easy fix) Besides the door handles and the lights / foggy assembly, the car has been great. Does anyone have any experience with the dealer and this issue? I've done an advanced search and went through a few pages and couldn't find anything...any answers to this thread or links to threads with the same issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for taking the time for reading my post!