Car Alarms: crime stoppers alarm keeps chirping, crime stopers, negative terminal


Question
How do I test the systems ground wire? Where is it  located, and is there a website for this specific brand?
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I purchased a crime stopers car alarm 2 yrs ago with remote entrry.  The alarm chirps constantly, and disengages the lock on the door leaving my car vulnerable.  How do I stop this? I have changed the battery on the remote, and I cannot locate the owners manual.  Please help!!!
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If you had the system professionally installed it should still be covered under the shop's warranty.

If you installed the system yourself I would suggest taking a look at the system's ground.  When a system's ground goes bad it can cause the system to operate in various unwanted ways.  If it is not the ground it is possible that the brain of the system went bad, but unlikely.

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The ground wire is a black wire that runs from the brain of the alarm to a metal point on the chassis, normally in a ring terminal connector.  If the chassis ground is not electrically sound it can cause problems.  Find the brain of the alarm and trace back the black wire to where it connects tot he chassis, if you find that the wire was put to a factory bolt it is probably a bad ground.  Moving the wire to the kick panel and attaching it to a clean paint and primer free piece of metal is the best ground possible aside from taking the wire directly to the negative terminal of the battery itself.  The biggest single problem I have seen with systems like this can be attributed to a poor ground.