[glass.marshall1]

So; coded my girly a while ago using bimmercode to activate panic alarm, chirp when locking, all that good stuff. Tried it out after and still nothing, no panic alarm, no chirp nothing. Did I miss something? Do I gotta go into expert mode and tweak some stuff there too?

[ptpending]

Originally Posted by glass.marshall1

So; coded my girly a while ago using bimmercode to activate panic alarm, chirp when locking, all that good stuff. Tried it out after and still nothing, no panic alarm, no chirp nothing. Did I miss something? Do I gotta go into expert mode and tweak some stuff there too?

you probably need to retrofit alarm siren to have chirp

[madderhorn]

To see if you have the alarm system installed you can check to see if the clown nose under the mirror blinks red when locking car with key. If not you will have to install the system which is fairly simple if your car is prewired.

[sam9116]

You're definitely missing the hardware. I just recently retrofitted alarm to my car. As soon as the alarm parts is plugged in, you can hear the chirp when locking/unlocking, no coding needed.

[glass.marshall1]

Originally Posted by madderhorn

To see if you have the alarm system installed you can check to see if the clown nose under the mirror blinks red when locking car with key. If not you will have to install the system which is fairly simple if your car is prewired.

Window sticker claims it's installed tho; I wonder if that means the prewire and not the ACTUAL system?

[madderhorn]

Originally Posted by glass.marshall1

Window sticker claims it's installed tho; I wonder if that means the prewire and not the ACTUAL system?

Hmmm I'm not too sure on that one- you can actually fairly easily check to see if you have it installed by looking in a few locations. For a visual you can just look up an alarm kit install on youtube and they will show off the locations.

The easiest place to look is just under the hood on the top right side of the engine bay. You will be looking for a pressure switch that makes a connection with the hood when it closes. If the switch is not there, it should just be a connector that is plugged into nothing that leads to the location.

The second place you can look if you are comfortable doing it is by removing the rear dome light. Here you will see a black little box that sits over the little slits in the dome light. If that box isn't there it shoud just be another connector that is secured to nothing. Removing the dome light is pretty easy once you know how.

If you look in these places and don't see a wire or the electronic then you aren't prewired at all. But if you are ~mid 09' production date or lower you should be prewired already.

If you find that you are prewired and don't have the electronics it is fairly cheap if you want to buy and install it. I personally found an e82 alarm kit off of ecs that was cheaper than every other listing for e92 alarm kits for some reason. Despite being e82 it worked on mine and I saved some money.

For me the alarm did not work initally without coding and I didn't hear the chirp at all. It was only after coding with ncs expert that I was able to get all my functions.