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10-24-2010, 12:17 PM

Tim Papirnik

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just a question

further to my question yesterday, i will make it more clear and concise, under the hood in the engine bay, on both my '05 v6 and my '06 gt there is a plunger switch mounted to the inner fender on the passenger side of the vehicle, what is this for?

10-24-2010, 07:27 PM

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10-25-2010, 09:23 AM

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Tim - that is part of the alarm system. If someone lifts the hood while the alarm is armed that plunger comes up and trips the alarm.

10-25-2010, 10:37 AM

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Tim - that is part of the alarm system. If someone lifts the hood while the alarm is armed that plunger comes up and trips the alarm.

Oh wow Jim, I had no idea thats what he was talking about!

10-25-2010, 12:16 PM

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Me either.

10-25-2010, 12:25 PM

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I didn't see his other post that he references so had to check his statistics now!

I wondered the same thing one time when I was doing some work on the car and noticed the "plunger" - and the fact that my friend's car next to me didn't have one. Then I realized that I have the factory alarm system and he didn't have it on his car.