07 Camry XLE Alarm Goes off randomly

[sparkyguy80]

Hello Guys
i have a 07 XLE Camry and recently i have been nothing but noise nuisance to my neighbors, my car parked in garage or driveway will just go off, its like someone hit my panic button on key fob, at first i thought i was getting pushed in my pocket, had car alarm go off with key sitting on my table, then i questioned whether my key fob batter was dieing so i changed batteries on key fob and still will go off, just yesterday driving thru town my info center display tells me my hood is open, i hit the brakes right away and go check it out, hood is well secured and i had to pull latch, open hood and slam it down , drove for a couple miles and same thing again, car tells me hood is open, i stopped again and check it out, all seems fine but car is still telling me hood is open. I called the local Toyota dealer and have a check up set up for Tuesday.
So i am wondering if the hood sensor has gone south on me and if that is the reason why car alarm is going off all the time.
Today i drove around and car tells me randomly that hood is open and then goes back to normal then tells me again.
Sorry about long story but wondered if anyone had same issue before and what was remedy, after my visit to dealer will post what they said.
Thanks

[ccrittenden]

Hello,

I am experiencing the exact same problems as you and I have an appointment tomorrow to get it seen about. Have you taken you car in and gotten any results with it? If so, could you please let me know what they found so I have a heads up. Thanks.

Originally Posted by sparkyguy80

Hello Guys
i have a 07 XLE Camry and recently i have been nothing but noise nuisance to my neighbors, my car parked in garage or driveway will just go off, its like someone hit my panic button on key fob, at first i thought i was getting pushed in my pocket, had car alarm go off with key sitting on my table, then i questioned whether my key fob batter was dieing so i changed batteries on key fob and still will go off, just yesterday driving thru town my info center display tells me my hood is open, i hit the brakes right away and go check it out, hood is well secured and i had to pull latch, open hood and slam it down , drove for a couple miles and same thing again, car tells me hood is open, i stopped again and check it out, all seems fine but car is still telling me hood is open. I called the local Toyota dealer and have a check up set up for Tuesday.
So i am wondering if the hood sensor has gone south on me and if that is the reason why car alarm is going off all the time.
Today i drove around and car tells me randomly that hood is open and then goes back to normal then tells me again.
Sorry about long story but wondered if anyone had same issue before and what was remedy, after my visit to dealer will post what they said.
Thanks

[sparkyguy80]

Hello.
I took car in and they said they were going to replace the latch, had to order part for another week and had latch and sensor replaced. life's been good since then. no more "hood is open" alarm or most importantly no more horn alarm going off in middle of night or day anymore
Hope this helps
The guy at the shop told us that someone also came in with the same problem just a couple of days before me, so he used my car to digg in deeper and find out what's up.

[sparkyguy80]

Happy to report that after latch and sensor replacement all under MFG warranty alarm issue is in the past. no more waking up neighbor in the middle of the night with those loud horns going off for no reason.
Hope this helps

[ccrittenden]

This did help. They replaced the latch and sensor all under the MFG warranty and all is quiet now. Thank God! No more disturbing the neighbors. Thank you.