I have a 2006 Dakota R/T with a dealer installed EVS alarm and the darn thing sounds off after I unlock the truck with the remote about every 10th time I arm it. Works most of the time but 1 in 10 it goes off for no apparent reason. This is the EVS 1 unit that uses the regular keyless entry key that came with my truck. I only bought the truck 2 weeks ago and they put the alarm in a week later. Anybody else having problems like this?

 

Coder, when I bought my truck I had a remote start installed and it did the same thing. The installer forgot to enact some disarm function and when I would start it, sometimes the alarm would go off. You may have a similar thing with the upgraded alarm. I would question the installer.

 

sounds like stephen grant has a part of his hacked up wifes body in your truck messing up the electrical system. there has to be away around the system features. what does the manual say?

 

you may need to unlock the system twice. once for the door and then once more for the alarm. my girls sister has an aftermarket set up in her 4 runner and she needs to do this or the alarm will go off.

 

I got all the body parts out of there but it still triggers once in a while for no reason when I unlock the door.

 

Problem is I don’t think these guys "fairly new dealership" know what they are doing. I may take it to the good dealership in town and see if they will fix it on warranty.

 

I will try that because I can’t replicate the problem when I try. It seems it must be an inopportune time with lots of people around and maybe an officer for it to happen. If I am at an industrial park on a Saturday with no one within in ear shot I can’t get the dumb thing to screw up. You have to love problems like that.

 

Here is another thing, I set the transponder key to unlock all doors on the first press and the next time I unlocked the doors after the alarm set, the thing went crazy. It went off like 5 times and no matter what I did I couldn’t shut it off. I had to wait for it to time out, then enter the code on the key to set it back to unlock only the drivers door on the first press "default from the factory". Then it went back to working 9 out of 10 times, You would think this kind of stuff wouldn’t happen with a factory alarm.