Interior Motion Sensors Triggering Alarm. Any real solution to this issue?

[Jake Blues]

No alarms last night or this morning. All indications are a faulty sensor(s). I'm going to give it a few days and then I will experiment to see if it's one sensor or both.

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[B25Nut]

Electrical tape isn't the easiest to work with, but it looks the best.

 

[Mirak]

No alarms last night or this morning. All indications are a faulty sensor(s). I'm going to give it a few days and then I will experiment to see if it's one sensor or both.

Well there you go (maybe). The sensors haven’t been removed - just covered - so whether “faulty” or not, they were “seeing“ something and they aren’t seeing it anymore now that they are covered. Glad you’ve hopefully found a temporary solution until Ford lets us keep the things turned off.

 

[Mirak]

Electrical tape isn't the easiest to work with, but it looks the best.

Yeah it looks way better. My kids used up all my electrical tape on “projects.” I appreciate that they are resourceful, but also annoyed.

 

[Jake Blues]

I bought these as a longer term and better looking solution.

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[Eugene]

Well I totally sealed over the motion sensors with electrical tape, after that didn't work I used a thick sheet of rubber adhesive gasket and the alarm still went off just by sticking my hand through the open window and waving. I didn't rock anything, just moved my hand around in mid air inside the car, and the alarm went off. When I was doing tests without covering the sensors I noticed an intermittent delay before the alarm went off. Sometimes it will be immediately set off, other times it may take several minutes. This may be why some people are saying they don't experience this problem. The one constant here is locking the doors rearms the sensors, my only work around is to 1. leave it unlocked, 2. leave the accessory power on which allows me to lock the doors without it resetting the motion sensor switch back on. It is bewildering why this issue has not been addressed by now, the only reason that I can think of is their customer service only goes up a short ladder, as a result, it never reaches the appropriate department. Ford like most oversized companies is another classic case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand needs done. There is one man that could solve this issue in a second, he is Chuck Gray (vice president, EV Technology), unfortunately, he is what you call unreachable.

 

[Eugene]

I thought there were only 2 sensors and after taping off the front two didn't work Mach-Lee informed me there was a third sensor, once I sealed it off it solved the problem. So you just need to seal all 3 sensors and the problem will go away.

https://www.macheforum.com/site/thr...tion-sensors-won’t-stay-off.13312/post-417417

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