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Good evening Gentlemen. I have an alarm problem with my 2001 ML500; it goes off randomly at night. It might perhaps be connected with the old battery, which was rather tired; it would start the car without difficulty when recently charged, but after standing for a few days, after one cold night it was pretty flat.
I've just fitted a new battery, which I'm hoping will cure the problem, and I can lock the car on the key without arming the alarm, but I've noticed something odd. When I unlock the car with the remote, I get the single flash of the indicators, but when I lock it the same way, the alarm arms and the red telltale blinks, but there is no indicator flash at all. My iCarsoft MB II detects no fault codes in either OBD or Benz mode.
Does anybody know, could a previous owner have programmed it this way, or does it indicate a fault?
I've just fitted a new battery, which I'm hoping will cure the problem, and I can lock the car on the key without arming the alarm, but I've noticed something odd. When I unlock the car with the remote, I get the single flash of the indicators, but when I lock it the same way, the alarm arms and the red telltale blinks, but there is no indicator flash at all. My iCarsoft MB II detects no fault codes in either OBD or Benz mode.
Does anybody know, could a previous owner have programmed it this way, or does it indicate a fault?