I went to get my car out the garage
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(rev 2 turbo) and found I had lost my keys.
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Luckily I have a spare key and also a spare pager fob for the viper480xv alarm.
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Unfortunately the pager fob has always played up.
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Battery goes flat after a few days on it and it loses sync with the car and needs the battery removed and put back in to resync.
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I can use the car like this but it's a pain.
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It also goes off if I leave the t bar off and I have a parasitic drain because of it.
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All not big problems as the car battery is disconnected in the garage when not in use.
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Now I can get hold of another fob for
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£40 but I've read I need the pin code and valet switch to reprogrammed it.
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I have a little push button which I guess is the valet switch but there is no pin code in the paperwork I got, just the install cert.
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So the other option is to remove the alarm and put another in.
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The local autoelectician has quoted
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£350 to remove old alarm and install a new cobra cat1.
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Another option is I strip the car down to find the main viper box and replace the alarm myself with one from eBay or something.
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Does anyone have any ideas with the viper alarm or any experience with another type of alarm to get?