scorpion 918 alarm not working on mk3 golf

[geeza]

Hi all. Damn car decided not to start earlier. Am assuming the battery in the fob is getting week and need to find a mn21 battery. If not that, which people have kind of said looking through google, then means ripping it out or at least cutting and taping wires. I'm happy to do that till I can get another immobiliser/ alarm fitted. Need it fixed d in the morning.
Also is there possibly another reason to it? Sometime when opening the car, the work ndows would wind down part way too. Could it need going through a sequence to start it up?
Cheers...an emotional.and peeved me
:-)

[cobblers]

The windows winding down thing is kind of a VW feature - if you put the key in and hold it to "unlock" for a few seconds, the windows wind down. The alarm is spliced into the same wire for your central locking, and is probably set to give a slightly too long pulse on unlock so occasionally it trips with "wind the windows down" thing.

Anyway, what year is the golf? If it's 1993 or newer, there's every chance it has a factory fitted immobiliser anyway, so there's absolutely no point in leaving the one in the alarm fitted.

[chester draws]

the 915 and 918 were fitted at dealerships.got to replace the battery cos thats your cheapest way forward.if not depending on how good it was fitted is how differcult to remove.the alarm sends a pulse to the central locking pump.the only wires you would have to join up is the starter wire.