1098S Tricolore mis-behaving in Derbyshire! Came to the bike this morning and the alarm/immobiliser fob, just doesn't do anything; the battery is fine, even tried the spare fob. I've tried the 2 fixes suggested in the manual ie. getting the unit out of sleep mode or, the emergency bypass using the confidential code. Neither of these seem to work. Anybody suffered a similar issue before and got any suggestions please?
Is this a Ducati alarm? When you say 'battery' I take it you mean the fob one. How long has the bike been stood for, if it has? If its been a while it could be that the bike bty is dead, and so is the one in the alarm itself. Perhaps try a different bike bty if you have one, or borrow one and see if that works. Matt
Pull the fuse to reset it. (it should be fused) I never fit alarms now. they gave nothing but trouble and destroyed batts for fun on my Aprilia. I'd rather pay a bit more premium but it makes little difference to cost where i live (middle of nowhere)
yes, it's a Duc alarm and yes the fob battery, which seems OK; annoyingly the bike was fine at the end of last week and has been on an optimate all through winter; I've just stuck it back on that to see if it helps any, if not, I'll try the battery route, thanks.
Both fob batterys dead? could be an option. Is the alarm activating if you turn the ignition on? if not is there any chance that its not set and only the immobiliser is armed. In which case you'd have to use the immobiliser override code and not the alarm one. Matt
Thanks Matt...have just had the d'oh moment that the Security Code Card is different to the Alarm/Immobilser code, on a different bit of the paperwork...BUT, when I turn the ignition on now and wait the 1 minute for the alarm to go off, it doesn't (it was doing before), so I can't start the reset process...ruddy frustrating...I'm guessing the battery's taken a bit of a pasting whilst I've been faffing around; hopefully it'll get enough juice back in it overnight on the optimate and I can re-try in the morning.
Every single bike I've owned with an alarm has caused me grief. Motorbike alarms are the work of Satan. Rip the alarm out and buy a dog.
Another thing to be mindful of is the antenna ring for the immobiliser can come loose from under the key surround and may need gluing back into place or a new one buying. It's fairly straightforward and not too expensive if you do need a new one.
all you need is a pair of wire cutters black tape and a bit of patience, that's what i did when mine went tits up chopped it out you still have the immobilizer in your key
Not necessarily that easy. I ripped the alarm off an SV1000, as I had done two previous bikes with no problems, but the SV remained immobilised. Two alarm fitters looked at it without success before I ripped the entire wiring loom out and started again (dirt cheap job thanks to ebay). Turns out the SV alarm was fitted by a guy that really knew what he was doing...
Sadly, not much luck this morning; spoke to Duc Coventry...seems that once you've tried the emergency over-ride procedure 3 times unsuccesfully, it amount to the same as having the hole in the wall swallow your card, ARGGGHHH! Looks like the bike trailer gets to come out to play and the expensive garage ornament goes to a dealership for a sound birching; there's a week of wasted good riding weather gone.
Righto; spoke to another Duc dealer and got about the same response; bring it in and we'll 'try' to sort it. Thought I'd give it one more go, so, diconnected the battery which hey presto set the alarm off, but, it does seem to have re-set it enough to let me do the Emergency over-ride procedure, so the bike is back on the road; hurrah!
I think the reason most people have alarms, when they do, is because it's an insurer's (daft) condition on many models that they're fitted, not because they're under the delusion that they do any good.
Wasn't and insurers condition for me, it was for peace of mind as my garage is away from the house. I've got the same system and had no issues with it so far. (touch wood)! Matt
