Alarm sounding when using door key

[dmcutter]

Today the battery in my remote apparently died and when I opened the door with the key, the alarm went off. This also happened a couple of weeks ago, the only other time I've used the key instead of the remote. I found nothing in the manual about what would cause this. Any ideas?

Thanks

[VisiX]

Manually unlocking my doors has always set my alarm off, I guess I just assumed that is how it works. If you start the car the alarm should stop.

[basco]

yeah it tells you in the manual that if you un-lock the car with out the keyfob that the alarm will sound unless you lock all of the doors manually because then the alarm doesn't arm itself

[dmcutter]

Okay, thanks. Seems strange it would work that way, but I guess it's just a good reason to keep fresh batteries in the remote.

[basco]

it does it so that if someone tries to pick your lock the alarm will sound

[Stevo198]

The secret is you have to turn the key to the unlock side three times to disable the alarm. Thats how it is on my 3g wrx anyways