What The Hell Is This Button???
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Actually, it only disables the interior motion sensor. The door lock and tilt alarms are still active. You would hit this if you left a dog or cat in the car when you exited and locked the car to prevent the pet's motion from triggering the alarm. The interior motion detector is inactive whenever the top (on the HTC) is open.
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I believe it disables the motion detector in the interior. That’s what the c7 had. Leave the wife or a dog in there, walk into a store the alarm will sound. Hit this button on the way out of the car it’s disabled.
Go to a car show....leave the windows down.....dude throws in a flyer alarm goes off. That’s why you leave the frunk or rear detach open at the car show.
Go to a car show....leave the windows down.....dude throws in a flyer alarm goes off. That’s why you leave the frunk or rear detach open at the car show.
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Miss Karen looked at it and said "it's simple, it is the Godzilla button...if you turn it off you will be squashed"... made sense to me so I haven't touched it. 
Thanks all
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Actually, it only disables the interior motion sensor. The door lock and tilt alarms are still active. You would hit this if you left a dog or cat in the car when you exited and locked the car to prevent the pet's motion from triggering the alarm. The interior motion detector is inactive whenever the top (on the HTC) is open.
Al Engel, "Save the Wave"
Al Engel, "Save the Wave"
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You just solved a problem I encountered yesterday. I stopped to get gas. When I closed my door, the car locked (as I have it programmed to do), but shortly after that the alarm started. I was confused, but just turned it off. Turns out my wife was in the car and she probably wasn't motionless. I never would have figured this out, but now I know what to do to avoid its happening again.
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You just solved a problem I encountered yesterday. I stopped to get gas. When I closed my door, the car locked (as I have it programmed to do), but shortly after that the alarm started. I was confused, but just turned it off. Turns out my wife was in the car and she probably wasn't motionless. I never would have figured this out, but now I know what to do to avoid its happening again.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Yeah, probably won't be doing that again.
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Given that the manual is several hundred pages, much of it boilerplate, and some not even applicable to the Corvette (a child seat in the back seats????), it shouldn't be a surprise that people miss things. I think the best way to understand everything is to sit in the car and go through the manual feature by feature while you can actually try them out.