How Do I Know If I Have An Alarm?

[tt44]

I have just acquired a 2007yaris which I was told had an alarm as well as an immobiliser. BUT the side window got smashed the other night and it didnt go off. I just tried rocking the car and tugging at the door handle and it didnt go off. Does that mean the garage that sold it to me was lying?

[FROSTYBALLS]

Hello Tracy - welcome to Toyota Owners Club.

It would help to know more details on your Yaris - spec, engine.

Have checked the Yaris (July 2009) brochure, and the Yaris came with an immobiliser as standard but not an alarm. However that is not to say it hasn't had an alarm fitted (either a Toyota alarm or a third party alarm). For example when I bought my last Corolla new in 2006, I had the dealer fit the Toyota alarm.

If it has the Toyota alarm, often there were small stickers put on the side windows warning that it has an alarm fitted.

If it does have an alarm it also depends whether it has interior protection (eg ultrasonics) or not - without interior protection, smashing a window may not trigger the alarm.

[mrpj]

My Yaris has a windscreen sticker, top left, factory fitted stating "Toyota Security System" and what look like radio waves radiating from it. The car is not fitted with any sort of alarm, only an engine immobiliser.

This could possibly confuse people, including whoever sold the car to Tracy?

I've always assumed, maybe incorrectly, that it refers to the fact that certain body panels have a plate affixed to them with the VIN thereon which Toyota describe as a security system.

[FROSTYBALLS]

Around the time the Yaris in question was produced, window stickers for the alarm (if fitted) would refer to TVSS (Toyota Vehicle Security System.

The current window stickers would refer to the combination of immobiliser and deadlocks.

[tt44]

its a 3 door zinc. 1.3cc. will go and have a look for a sticker now.

[Devon Aygo]

It is unlikely to have an alarm as it was a dealer accessory option on all models.

[MEP's Yaris GS]

It is unlikely to have an alarm as it was a dealer accessory option on all models.

Do you know how much this dealer fit option is out of interest?