GSA Alarm Fob

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Just tried operating the alarm/fob on my recently acquired 2009 GSA but whilst the fobs LED lights up red when a button is pressed, nothing happens. Other than perhaps the battery needing changing, am I doing anything wrong?
 
You can download the alarm manual.

Go to BMW Denmark

Click on service

Click on manual

Select the manual you need
 
Thanks, but I've got the original manual. Im doing what it says but with nothing happening. Ill try a battery change.
 
Dunno, what does it say in the manual?

From a wild guess, it might make sense if they do.... Or you might not know if anything has armed....
 
If it is activating the red flashing led will appear on the clocks. Apart from that put the bike on the side stand, set alarm and lift the bike. If set it should alarm.
You are pressing the correct button of the two?
 
Whoops, just realised the the steering lock needs to be on for the alarm to be set! :o

Can anyone advise how I deactivate the beeping sounds when the alarm is set/deactivated please? Id rather just the indicators flash on their own. Ive read the alarm manual but I don't understand what its telling me to do.
 
Ask someone else who might understand it to read the book.... Or approach local dealership.
 
I was hoping someone here knew how to do it, but Ill visit my dealer if needed. I think this is the correct page of the manual?...

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OK, it looks to be as follows. Obviously I can only tell you what I am reading on the two pages, so some of it may well be out of context (or bollocks) depending on what was written on the proceeding 13 pages and what follows on after page 15.

This is what the two pages appear to say:

Section 3 - Page 14 (on the left)

These are the instructions on how to prepare the bike's alarm to start its 'programming function'. Follow the six steps; when complete you'll be able to start programming the bike alarm.

Section 3 - Page 15 (on the right)

There are 4 different set-up's (programmes). There may be more over the page, I can't tell. Above the four different programmes on offer there is an explanation as to what happens during the programming stage. Read this bit first and then progress. Read it? Fully understood it? Great, let's proceed with the programming.....

1. If you would like a 'beep' as confirmation that you have activated / deactivated the alarm, push button 1. If you would like no 'beep' (ie. silent, I guess) push button 2

2. Not used. Self-explanatory

3. Sets the sound of the alarm, if you would like it swelling-up, push button 1. If you would like it intermittent, push button 2

4. If you would like the alarm to turn itself on when you turn the ignition off, push button 1. If you would not like the alarm to arm itself when you turn the ignition off, push button 2.

Please note:

A. Before doing any of the above READ the pages that proceeded the two pages in your picture and READ the pages that follow. There may be more programmable functions beyond the four listed and / or some more instructions.

B. You really cannot break it. If it all goes wrong you will probably not immobilise your bike. If you somehow manage to immobilise your bike, call BMW Assistance or join the AA or push the bike to your nearest dealership.

C. Learn how to turn the alarm OFF. There should be a setting whereby putting the key into the ignition and turning the ignition on, deactivates the alarm, just as there is a setting to activate the alarm by turning the ignition off, as described above. This will save you fiddling around with the fob, I guess.

D. Work out if you want the damned alarm setting itself each time you fill up with fuel. If it's possible to activate / de-activate this (to me annoying) function I have no idea.

E. Work out how to set the alarm's 'Service mode function'. This de-activates the alarm's movement sensors. This will enable you to push the bike around without the ignition on, without the damned alarm going off. It will also stop the bloody alarm self-arming and then going off when you go on a ferry or on the Chunnel train, annoying all your fellow passengers so much that they kill you.

F. The general advice is usually not to keep the fob on the same key ring as your bike key, your front door key and lucky rabbit's foot. Why? It will jiggle about as you hoon your awesome steed through the twisties. Jiggling is not good. Yes, bods will report that they do. Good for them, they obviously hoon smoothly or do not hoon at all.... Or they are just lucky..... Or the general advice is bollocks; take your pick, it's your bike.

The very obvious downside of not keeping the fob on the same key ring, is that you'll have to decide where to keep it.... Here the world is your lobster; do whatever you like.

If you really fancy hanging it around your neck, do it. If you think it must go buried in an inner pocket under six layers of clothing, do it. If you think it's best left at home (forgotten, in other words) or at the bottom of your pannier beneath 50 kgs of root vegetables, yup... You guessed.... Do it.

G. Take a moment to decide whether having the alarm was really such a brilliant idea in the first place.

H. If it all gets too much, see dealer
 
Very useful thread Wapping, thanks, especially location for the manuals! I've had my 2007 GSA for 2 yrs and still haven't worked out how to turn the feckin thing off! However, I do have the fob on the ignition key as I do my twisties and don't seem to have had any problems - apart from a brand new and now flat Odyssey battery for no apparent reason, Argh!
 
Managed to figure it out with the help of Wappings post, I didn't realise I had to prepare the alarm for reprogramming, but got there in the end. Ive now managed to disable the beeping noise when arming/disarming the alarm.
 
Right this a alarm milarke is annoying me now. When I get home from a ride I park up in my garage and set the steering lock, and then set the alarm by pressing button one, and get the relevant indicator flashes to confirm. A few hours later I try to deactivate the alarm by pressing button two, but nothing happens. I turn on the ignition and the alarm doesn't sound, so it appears the alarm was not actually armed at all. I guess I'm doing something wrong?
 
You've certainly got a fault button 2 should disarm the alarm, indicators should flash once. Turning the ignition on also deactivates the alarm
 
Once I've armed the alarm I can then immediately disarm it by pressing button two. But If I come back to the bike a few hours later then button two doesn't do anything.
 
What about this?
"The alarm function can only be deactivated if the emergency stop switch is in the operating position"
 


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