cost to repair car alarm

Actually the car alarm is pretty easy to remove. My 2001 9-5 had the same issue. The alarm is located in front of the drivers side wheel. The best way to access it is to raise the car, remove the front drivers wheel. You only really need to partially remove the front section of the wheel well shroud and pull it down to access the alarm. The alarm has 1 bolt and one nut (that fastens onto a stud) if I remember correctly. One wire harness. Quite simple to pull off. You will get a message on the SID stating the Alarm Requires Service every time you turn the car on (much better than it reminding your auditory senses at 2 am.) I took mine to a Batteries Plus shop and had them solder a new battery onto the circuit board. This worked fine for 6 months maybe, but it started acting up again, so I've removed it for good until I can afford the new one. Hope that helps! Good luck!

There is a $35 fix that will shut the alarm off, and your car won't tell you that your alarm needs service. It is a computer re-program. I had it done on mine, worked like a charm. The only catch is it doesn't beep anymore when you lock/unlock.

Just for a quick no cost fix so you can sleep at night...open the fuse box in the engine compartment and pull fuse #14. This will also disable your A/C but it does shut up the alarm. You can still lock the car with the remote but there is no beep when you lock/unlock. When I need the A/C, I just pop the fuse back in and everything works fine again. If the alarm continually goes off when I'm at the mall or work or somewhere...so what I say. Hope this helps.

For an 11 year old car just pull the alarm module as others described, it's not really in high demand for thieves, if car alarms ever deter them anyway. If you want to fix it there are services that will rebuild it. The problem is a bad capacitor that burns out over time. Following is one such service: http://www.bba-reman.com/catalogue/Products.aspx?category=721 Should be about $35-50 You can also find rebuilt units on eBaymotors.com

I did this about 6 months ago. Found an alarm in a junkyard (excuse me, recycling company) for a little money and they shipped it to me. My mechanic looked at YouTube instructions to replace it. Works fine!!