Random Saab 9-5 Alarm Siren Fix - Trionic Seven

Saab alarm siren keeps going off! Fix inside. As the alarm siren in the Saab 9-3 and Saab 9-5 ages, it will randomly start to go off at 3AM and wake up all the neighbors. This video shows a few workarounds for the problem. Other symptoms include the infamous "SERVICE THEFT ALARM" or "Theft Protection Failure" message in the SID.

Swedish: I denna video förklarar jag vad felet SERVICE STÖLDLARM betyder i Saab 9-3 och Saab 9-5. Jag visar också hur man stoppar bilen från att tjuta vid fel tillfällen.

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[party_boy]

You are doing such a good thing for us Saab owners. My 9-3 every once in a while displays the alarm message on the SID. now i'm one step closer to fixing it

[bertushd]

Thanks for your usefull tips. Also my Saab 9-3 Convertible has problems with it spontaneously working siren…so, sharing your knowledge made it more easy to make up my mind about the necessary actions. Kind regards from the Netherlands!

[emacadar]

Absolutely amazing. Excellent explanation, great edit, flawless English! Please keep it up !!!

[shepshepherd]

My 2000 9-5 Aero HOT estate's alarm goes off at random for short periods almost daily, even though I don't have a 'SERVICE THEFT ALARM' message on the SID, so I look forward to seeing how you go about rebuilding the sounder.

I'd like the alarm to be in full working order all of the time, despite the fact that nobody ever steals Saabs in the UK.

[tnimbus]

This has been really useful. Thanks for posting

[skev]

Thank you so much. Great video, Just your mention of the glass breakage sensors being housed in the central passenger light led me to check and find that the central light was slightly dislodged. This seems to have stopped my random alarm problem - Excellent! Cheers.

[Kochiha]

I can hardly wait for the next video. I've had the alarm disconnected for a few months now, and I sorely miss the "chirp-chirp".

[frederikkluiver]

Hej hej Trionic Seven,

I recently bought my first Saab 9-5 2.0T '03 and after two weeks I got often disturbed by someone's alarm, until I found out it was mine. Thanks to you I'll be changing the batteries. Wish me luck!
(Awesome channel by the way!)

Med vänliga hälsningar,
Frederik

[LordLuciendar]

Good timing, the alarm on my Viggen just went off last night and yes, woke up the neighbors. It wouldn't shut off, not even with the keyfob unlocking the car or even starting the car. I had to disconnect the battery. This is round #2 for me, I replaced the batteries in the siren unit about 5 years ago. This time I just want to disconnect the siren box and remove it. Part 2 can't get here fast enough :)

[joshbacon]

5:37 - How would the entire moment have been ruined if the alarm went off?

[Boblee]

Had to do this job on my 02 93 about a year ago. Your so right, always in the middle of the night !

[lucjanmalinowski]

I'm planning to change theese batteries.
Can't wait to see a second part.
Good Job!

[TBendez]

Looking forward to part 2. My siren is disconnected by the previous owners mechanic, not sure if it's still there because it kept going off. I have a OG9-5 and hopefully it'll give some insight although my car's "too" old.

[jimpolk]

I pulled a spare alarm module from a donor car same make/model/year. Is it possible I can refurbish that one then just swap out the original alarm module with a refurbished one? Without a Tech II of course. If nothing else I'll plan to open up this donor alarm just to do trial run for seeing how hard it is to refurbish the battery if I have to do it on my own original alarm. Thanks for your helpful video and suggestions. Kind of like having everything still work including alarm, just don't want the random alarms & constant SID warnings any longer. If it proves too difficult, I'll make trip to technician with Tech II to disable, but hope I can avoid disabling alarm.

[michaelmoore]

Lord I so wish I knew this 10 years ago, keep us informed my friend....

[IceMan-ildx]

I've got a MY01 Estate with the 'old' tail lamps, are the newer ones interchangeable?

[Pixelology]

Hello, I have a 2008 9-5. Can I swap in the siren box from an earlier model (one with the screws?)?
Does something need to be programmed with a Tech-II, or is it plug-and-play?

[un-_-known]

My Saab 9-5 2005 45, 000 miles has issue with keys wont lock car i synced it manually, works great but then stops again when i leave car dont think i saved it once got in program mode. Could it be the receiver box not the one around the ignition tho or could it be ignition, the car knows the doors are shut ie the door switches the radio turns off when pull key out ignition, door locks work fine ?? Please no one can figure this out, ANY question welcome p.s tanks for the video really.

[SldiEr]

Great videos as usual Jon. I have a 93 convertable 2007. took off both wheels and took off water guard.. no alarm module.. then took boot apart as someone on another forum said in there... no alarm module.. any ideas?

[mrwille]

Hey! Im so grateful for all your videos, i watched them all and you have really helped me. My 9-5 is really moonwalking in to its glory days, but it still have many problems, one of them being the alarmsystem. 

I want to take the sirenbox out so i can lock the car with the centrallock, then order all the caps and batteries to rebuild it. My question is, can the siren still go off when its unplugged? do i need to saw my siren open and pull the batteries right away?

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