Electronics » Factory alarm disable.

Picking up the new 1250 on Monday from London. It comes with a factory alarm and a Datatool fitted. Is there an easy way to disconnect these? I am assuming that they are two separate things. Just don't see the need in something that is going to sap my battery when I live in a very low crime area.

You can disable the alarm (or do as I have done and require it to be clicked on from your key fob rather than auto turning on when you power down) via the options on the TFT screen.

You can download the manual online and e.g upload to your phone so you can study how to do it while travelling.

But I dare say the salesman can easily switch it out for you.

If you are struggling pm me your email address and I will send it to you. It is a just a 3.3 MB file.

Cannot help with the Datatool.

Chris

P.S. You will also have a paper copy of the manual under the seat but you might not want to stop to read it then.

Thanks, had not noticed that it was in the menus. I have the manual on the PC but had not noticed the alarm section after reading it a few times.

So if I park on the ferry and just walk away from the bike (keyless ignition) on the ferry then the alarm is not even activated? Or do I have to press the button to switch it off? Would not want the thing to be beeping for a whole ferry crossing.

Talk to the dealer, they will advise and set everything for you, my 1250rs also came from Park Lane, but due to covid restrictions and weather, I opted to have it collected by a specialist motorcyclist transport company and absolutely no issues issue with alarm or tracker.

Depends how it is set up i.e which boxes are ticked. It is the work of seconds to disable it completely or, as I have done, uncheck the box for the alarm auto-arming meaning that you have to press the button on the key fob to arm it. In my view that is the best setting. It then only takes a split second to set the alarm if parking somewhere dodgy.

FYI my alarm was set to auto-arm on my Hull-Rotterdam crossing earlier this month because I forgot to change it. It did not go off at all during the circa 12 hour journey. I then changed the settings at the end of day 1 of my travels.

P.S. You get both an audio and a visual warning that the alarm is setting.

Chris

Are you sure is it Datatool or Datatag?
Can the dealer just remove the alarm? Useless things

Zitat von Ali-bear im Beitrag #7

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Are you sure is it Datatool or Datatag?
Can the dealer just remove the alarm? Useless things

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I think that the Datatool is a tracker.

It is. And from what I have read in a post on this site is now fitted as standard rather than an alarm (or was that just a salesman spinning a line?)

Chris

I believe that the alarm is fitted and it has the Datatool tracker too. I only know this because I got an email from Datatool last week, when BMW Park Lane were preparing the bike, inviting me to pay them about £109, I think.
Thanks all for your input, I shall disable what I can in the TFT.

I found the guys at Park Lane very helpful when I picked up my new RS in March, although due to weather and day before lockdown, collection was by van, the alarm was an option i selected on my bike and set for manual operation and datatool not enabled.

By the way unless its changed since March, the first year of the Datatool tracker subscription is included in the sale of a new bike, just a matter of ringing datatool to activate it, should already have been registered by the dealer.
I also found the guys at datatool are very knowledgeable and helpful if you phone them.

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I found the guys at Park Lane very helpful when I picked up my new RS in March, although due to weather and day before lockdown, collection was by van, the alarm was an option i selected on my bike and set for manual operation and datatool not enabled.

By the way unless its changed since March, the first year of the Datatool tracker subscription is included in the sale of a new bike, just a matter of ringing datatool to activate it, should already have been registered by the dealer.
I also found the guys at datatool are very knowledgeable and helpful if you phone them.

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Zitat von himoverthere im Beitrag #13

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Zitat von Wayfarer im Beitrag #12

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I found the guys at Park Lane very helpful when I picked up my new RS in March, although due to weather and day before lockdown, collection was by van, the alarm was an option i selected on my bike and set for manual operation and datatool not enabled.

By the way unless its changed since March, the first year of the Datatool tracker subscription is included in the sale of a new bike, just a matter of ringing datatool to activate it, should already have been registered by the dealer.
I also found the guys at datatool are very knowledgeable and helpful if you phone them.

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Yes it is registered with Datatool, that is why I have the email from them. Didn't know that the dealer pays for the first year.
Where I live there is very little crime and no bike crime. I can leave my bikes in town with the keys in them and my helmet on the mirror, never been touched.

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