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It does have an alarm and immobilizer fitted as standard.
Don't read these articles from the USA, their cars are a different spec.
A simple test, lock the car, open it with the key, does the alarm go off?
 
rsh1972 said:
It does have an alarm and immobilizer fitted as standard.
Don't read these articles from the USA, their cars are a different spec.
A simple test, lock the car, open it with the key, does the alarm go off?
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No, it doesn’t. Because the UK cars don’t have an alarm fitted. At least not a traditional alarm.

Try activating it and see what happens.
 
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I'm guessing it won't have tilt sensors either usually in place to warn of wheel or cat theft. Piss poor IMHO. I can't believe for the sake of what would have been about £50 in parts they haven't bothered.

The delay in getting an answer is obviously the fact that there could be legal consequences here if some insurance companies have been told there is an alarm when there isn't and the insurance cover is dependent upon it being present. Expensive recall incoming?
 
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Expensive recall incoming?
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I doubt it. The individual makes their own declarations with regards to insurance, so; if you selected the option 'Factory Fitted' when taking out the policy, the insurer will conduct the checks using their database and you will be covered. Likewise, if you chose the option 'Factory Fitted Thatcham Alarm/Immobiliser' you would also be covered as it does have a Thatcham approved immobiliser but not alarm (you could argue that this is a one or the other question). The problem would occur if you chose 'Factory Fitted Thatcham Alarm and Immobiliser' because that is a false statement.
 
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Cholmondeley-Biscuitt said:
I doubt it. The individual makes their own declarations with regards to insurance, so; if you selected the option 'Factory Fitted' when taking out the policy, the insurer will conduct the checks using their database and you will be covered. Likewise, if you chose the option 'Factory Fitted Thatcham Alarm/Immobiliser' you would also be covered as it does have a Thatcham approved immobiliser but not alarm (you could argue that this is a one or the other question). The problem would occur if you chose 'Factory Fitted Thatcham Alarm and Immobiliser' because that is a false statement.
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But based off of the previously mentioned literature (and the instructions for drive home insurance in the first batch), we have been told it does have an alarm.
 
Delahorney said:
..we have been told it does have an alarm.
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Unfortunately, the latest Toyota UK literature only states that it has an immobiliser, no mention of an alarm. The Thatcham Database also backs this up. If you were to appear in his TV courtroom, Judge Rinder, (before flouncing off stage left) might pose the question "..but did you check?". It's just a pi$$er that Toyota doesn't know its Ar$e from its Elbow sometimes and we end up paying for it. :cry:
 
The flip side of that was it that doesn’t square with the spec list many of us pulled from the MyT app (myself included) last year while we waited for our cars to arrive. Mysteriously the document disappeared from the app/log in a few months later which presumably was a result of someone at TUK becoming aware that the list was wrong!

There was certainly no follow up communication to make anyone aware of such an important change in the specification of the car. It’s a security and an insurance issue not an omission of a cup holder after all. One of many frustrations with the purchase process of the car, a shame as the car is very good but Toyota UK have been woeful on several fronts.
 
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I queried it with TOL who told me that they were aware that a few people had raised this issue but that it had a ‘perimeter’ alarm (not Thacham approved) and immobiliser (which is Thatcham approved). I checked my build sheet and it was on that as having both.

However - I did ask them how can I be certain and they said only way is to open door or boot forcefully to set it off. Hmmm….sounded like BS to me but cannot obviously do this to check.

It clearly doesn’t have interior sensors & if I open window and lock then try and open manually I can’t as it’s double locked!

Can see from the video above that opening with the special key doesn’t set it off either which I’m certain would have done - at least my old GT86 used to. So I’m guessing it simply doesn’t have one.

Wondering if anyone who knows what to look for can see it in the engine bay or something?

Anyone had a 3rd party alarm added and if so what did they go for?
 
Still no official word. They obviously don't have an alarm, they would have been quick to point out that it does, even if it needed a dealer to reactivate it.

I would guess there are a few scratched heads at HQ as to how to deal with it hence the delay. Letting down a few hundred owners with a "sorry your car doesn't have an alarm even though it was on the original spec sheet, here's a free mug and an air freshener" isn't going to cut it, let alone those who have insurance with companies that will wriggle out of any claim on a technicality (and they will, it's there job to) and the possible liability falling back to Toyota.
 
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So it tells you when the door is opened in the instrument cluster. Warns you when the key is not in range. Bongs incessantly when your seat belts not on even when you are just going 10 yards down the road (this is actually incredibly annoying because with the previous generation 86 this would go off when you put the car in reverse). So it has these sensors to tell you these things and yet no alarm. I would think there is something in there that needs activating somehow for the alarm. We just don't know how to activate it. It's that hidden even Toyota GB don't know how.
 
Think I am right in saying that the GT86's Alarm and Bluetooth were added in the UK before delivery to the dealer. The 80s style sensors on the A Pillars and the silly Bluetooth mic on the steering column with dangling wire was a give away🤣
Any post delivery install by Mr T may end up being similar 😬
 
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