Acumen alarm removal West London?

[650]

I've had nothing but a bloody nightmare with my bike since I got it, and it's all down to the Alarm.

It's an Acumen cat1 alarm. It drains the battery in no time and is generally just a horrid, noisy, pointless piece of shi*e as I have oodles of security elsewhere.

Can anyone recommend a capable electrician/alarm specialist to help me get this hunk of junk off the bike? Or does anyone have good experience with Acumen alarms and can guide me through removing it?

Thanks muchly in advance

Originally Posted by 650

Can anyone recommend a capable electrician/alarm specialist to help me get this hunk of junk off the bike? Or does anyone have good experience with Acumen alarms and can guide me through removing it?

I could recommmend one.
Knowing where you are may help others in recommending one closer though

Still amazes me how many people have issues with alarms.
Never had one myself & doubt I ever will as I've read so many threads like this.
IMHO mechanical security is the way to go. Let's be honest, what do 99.9% of people do when they hear an alarm going off? Yep, absolutely nothing.

[650]

Sorry, West London...Acton/Shepherds Bush. I can travel around London though, If you're man is mates with little John, it might be a bit far for me haha

Yep my bike had an alarm when I bought it which was pants. Main box bit and speaker were broken so that when parked the alarm would be constantly going off, but only making a tiny little crackling noise. Which drained the battery really quickly.

Mine was a Datatool so i don't know how similar it will be to yours, but if whoever has fitted has done a methodical job then it should be relatively easy to remove.

Find the main alarm unit bit and follow each wire till it joins to your bikes loom. At the loom it will either be spliced onto a wire, in which case the alarm wire can simply be cut. Or your loom wire will have been cut, and one half attached to the alarm, and the other left doing nothing. In this case you will need to cut the alarm wire off, and reconnect the two original pieces of loom wire. (All the wires colour coded so easy to match up, although a wiring diagram may help here).

There will be lots of wires coming out of the alarm, and they will probably all be connected at different points of the loom so be prepared to take off fairings and seats etc and for it take an hour or so.

That all probably makes no sense at all but if you have some common sense and some bullet connectors and can see in colour it's not too bad lol.

[rictus01]

as one of the main points of instalation is to make removal difficult the wires are all black and can be connected up in different ways and locations (so there isn't a set pattern), the only way is to trace each circuit and re- join the loom where it's been cut (you'll need to bridge the joint if it was installed properly), it's a couple of hours work, but not hard really.

Cheers Mark.

[650]

Cheers Mark and KickingKH.

Mark, where abouts in London are you? I'm **** with areas so wouldn't know random names to rattle off! From posts of yours, I'm guessing you're really quite clued up about bikes?

[rictus01]

I know a thing or two, I'm in South Norwood (near Crystal place football ground), is the bike ridable? I've a couple of bikes to do over the weekend, but could probably fit in some time next week , but my rules are you do the work, I provide the knowledge and make sure you don't screw anything up, Oh and drink tea.

Cheers Mark.

[650]

haha, yeah it's fully rideable. I'm busy this weekend and next though unfortunately! I'm going to buy a voltmeter and make sure everything's as it should be, first. Then if I need some assistance I'll give you a shout, will be good to meet other bikers...I'm fairly new to this whole game

[rictus01]

, a simple one is a bad ground, can cause all sorts of problems, but yeah worth checking with a meter, there's always Soho every friday you want to meet the locals