Car Alarms: Hyundai Elantra alarm problem, hyundai elantra, dash area

Question
I have a 2005 Hyundai Elantra. It is just a few months old. the car is a salvage
car from (flooded then drained and fixed up to look good-as-new) with no
miles off it when I drove it off the salvage dealership. Anyway, the car came
with an alarm- a keyless entry remote control that has three buttons - one to
unlock, one to lock and one to turn the alarm on or off. Yesterday, when i
returned to my car I noticed I could hear a sort of quiet alarm coming from
under the hood, but it wasn't the usual, very loud alarm I am used to, the
alarm that I know how to activate. I was able to drive with this quiet alarm
beeping all the way home and it was still quietly beeping away last night and
probably still is beeping....How can I turn it off? the regular alarm still turns
off or on ontop of this subdued alarm noise ...and i can't figure out how to
turn it off.

Can you help?

Thanks,
Xico

Answer
There seems to be another one in there
from the sounds of it, and is improperly
grounded.

The alarm seems to be doing it's job if
at least it's trying.

Ok, try this.
Put the key in the ignition, and turn forward
all the way just before cranking. Then within
5 seconds, locate, press and hold in the
valet/overide button, found under the
dash area, (push button, spring loaded)
until the installed LED (the blinking light)
in your dash area goes on solid,
and the siren chirps once.

(Your valet switch might be the toggle
(on/off) type. in this case, key on,
flip switch in opposite direction,
then turn the key off.)

This should reset the alarm, and reset
the grounded relay on the starter wire,
allowing you to start the engine.

At this point, the only thing working would
be the keyless entry from the alarm,
if it came equipped that way.

Just Repeat these steps to place it
back to usable armed mode.
You may get 2 chirps, confirming it,
and the lights may flash twice as well.

Hopefully, this addresses the swcondary alarm
and not the first. If no Joy,
you will need to get in there and locate
the secondary alarm brain, then unplug.

That should do it.
If you want to remove it at this point,
take it to your neighborhood installer
for this, or buy the wiring chart
(Go to: www.vehiclewires.com)
for the vehicle, and reverse engineer it wire
by wire, until safely removed.

Let me know what happens.

Robert Martin/CEO-ALARMTEK
www.CARALARMINSTALLER.com