OK I have the (fairly common) problem of the alarm going off for no apparent reason. Have disconnected the bonnet sensor (easy & obvious) and tried disabling the interior sensors each time I lock ... neither made any difference.

I appreciate I can take it to get the codes read, and troubleshoot why the alarm is going off. To be honest though I would prefer to simply disable the alarm, if this is possible.

Reading various threads here it doesn't seem that on a car of this age it can be 'coded' off via the diagnostic port (not that I could do that myself anyway). The alarm shares a fuse with other stuff (interior lights included, from memory) so I can't just pull that.

So is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice