Bad Movie Experience

[ttocs]

I have had no fear parking my stang anywhere with the 2-way alarm feature. It puts your mind at rest when you can just push a button and see what the voltage, temp and status of the car are.

OR you could always take the cheap way out and install a flashing led to turn on with the key off. You would be suprised how many that will keep away.

[Mr. Austin]

I have had no fear parking my stang anywhere with the 2-way alarm feature. It puts your mind at rest when you can just push a button and see what the voltage, temp and status of the car are.

OR you could always take the cheap way out and install a flashing led to turn on with the key off. You would be suprised how many that will keep away.

Wow I like that idea. Never would have thought about something so simple

[ttocs]

also with the regular siren, the horn and a mechanical siren outside it draws a little bit of attention. Nothing like a car with a tornado siren going off for people to look and see what it is. People complain that nobody pays attention to alarms, they were just not loud enough.

[Blackmagic1]

The LED works! (mine is also hooked to a alarm system too though) 2 "Unsavory types were looking a LIL too close, when one pointed at the light and told the other guy, then they both left. But I also had a friend who parked his Toyota 4x4 right up next to a theater. (alarm system installed) Came out, an the alarm was blaring ,drivers side glass busted out, and most of his dash was ripped out as they stole his speakers& indash stereo(NOT a quick pull-out type). He was amazed NO-ONE did anything as it sat right where everyone walked into the theatre. Plus it had to take a while to get to the stereo, and speakers. "Puff" yer lucky security was there !

[Rev'n Kevin]

I got this in an email from a friend today....

How to Lock Your Car...and Why
I locked my car. As I walked away I heard my car door unlock. I went back and locked my car again, three times. Each time, as soon as I started to walk away, I would hear it unlock again!! Naturally alarmed, I looked around and there were two guys sitting in a car in the fire lane next to the store. They were obviously watching me intently, and there was no doubt they were somehow involved in this very weird situation. I quickly chucked the errand I was on, jumped in my car and sped away. I went straight to the police station, told them what had happened, and found out I was part of a new, and very successful, scheme being used to gain entry into cars.

Two weeks later, my friend's son had a similar happening... While traveling, my friend's son stopped at a roadside rest to use the bathroom. When he came out to his car less than 4-5 minutes later, someone had gotten into his car and stolen his cell phone, laptop computer, GPS navigator, brief case.....you name it. He called the police and since there were no signs of his car being broken into, the police told him he had been a victim of the latest robbery tactic -- there is a device that robbers are using now to clone your security code when you lock your doors on your car using your key-chain locking device..remotely. They sit a distance away and watch for their next victim... They know you are going inside the store, restaurant, or bathroom and they now have a few minutes to steal and run. The police officer said to manually lock your car door-by hitting the lock button inside the car -- that way if there is someone sitting in a parking lot watching for their next victim, it will not be you.

When you hit the lock button on your car upon exiting, it does not send the security code, but if you walk away and use the door lock on your key chain, it sends the code through the airwaves where it can be instantly stolen.

This is very real. Be wisely aware of what you just read and please pass this note on. Look how many times we all lock our doors with our remote just to be sure we remembered to lock them -- and bingo, someone has our code...and whatever was in our car.

[ttocs]

kevin I am sorry to say that modern technology with spread spectrum and code hopping makes the code learners completely obselete. This is nothing new as we had a system at one of the stores I worked at to clone remotes for customers over 10 yrs ago. the old code alarms that came in our sn95 mustangs didn't use this technology and is easily clonable.

Another nice thing about the compustar alarm is that there is a small paging/led module that mounts to the bottom of the windshiled with the led pointing straight out through the glass. It matches the dash mounted led with a super bright blue led that shines out like the batsignal and is obvious during the day, super obvious at night.

The most important thing about an alarm is the install......... If your installer does not take the time to mount the brain where it cannot be easily accessed and does not run the wire correctly you have wasted your money. A great alarm with a medeocre install if you are lucky will only leave you with your stuff or car stolen but can also leave you on the side of the road wondering what happened. If you do have an alarm I recomend that you lay on your back and look under the dash to see what wiring doesn't match and you can gurantee its the alarm. All you need to do to disable a normal alarm is to disconnect the ground or main power and the alarm is done.

When you go to get an alarm ask alot of questions about how they do their installs and make their connections. Alot of places will brag about how fast they can throw one out and this is almost always an immediate red flag that they are cutting corners by using T-taps(no no no) or some other short cut.

Unfortunatly I just left town this week and I am just bored in the hospital or I woulld have a security tech-night at my place to tell you if your alarms are up to snuff or not. If you guys are interested in gettin a well installed alarm let me know and I can direct you to the shop in town that know takes pride in thier alarms and will take care of ya!

Another piece of advise, if you have the sticker that came with the alarm that says VIPER/CODE SECURITY on your car peel it off. A thief that knows his stuff will know the color code of the alarm brands and you just gave them all they need to know. The led is all you need to tell them you have an alarm.....

[Mr. Austin]

I hardly have locking doors. Let alone lug nut locks. Seems like i need to invest when i get a solid job. How much does one of these fancy "Pro" Alarms run any who? And thanks for the info you two thats somewhat comforting and lets me know even the everyday cars are in trouble. As technology succeeds they will forget how to use the butter knife tehe!

[ttocs]

doorlock actuators can be added to almost any car. I think I have only turned 2 cars down for them, one a satern and I can't remember the other.

There are a number of good 2-way alarm manf out there now from DIE to compustar. The compustar had a few extra options such as the vehicle temp/voltage on the remote as well as the option to control 2 cars from the same 2-way remote. I got it for the 2nd car option myself as not many systems offer that on 2-ways. I think the basic 2 ways(which are still great alarms) start off around $400 with install. The bigger system that I got will run closer to $7-800.

Oh wait, I forgot the other option that I bought the compustar for was the safe start option on a manual. When you go to park the car and have your foot on the foot brake, and then activate the parking brake at the same time, the system recognized that you are parking and turning the car off and will activate the ignition circuits of the car through the remote system. Now when you put the car in nuetral, and pull the keys out the car will stay running until you shut the door. Once the door is shut, the alarm kills the ignition, locks the doors and arms the alarm. As long as the door is not open, the alarm will recognize that it HAS to be in nuetral and will allow you to remote start it. If the alarm was activated by an entry, it will not alllow you to start it.

We need to remember that tempe had the highest rate of cartheft in the nation just a few years back, not sure where it is now.

[1966PonyGirl]

When I use to live in surprise, we had neighbor chase off some guys that was about to steal my car!!! They already stole my roomates CD player and cd and was going to take my car right from my drive way. I was two minutes away from coming out of the house to. I was sooooo freeking pissed off!!! Austin I know exactly how you felt that night hearing about that.

Time to get an alarm!! I would take the coil wire off of the distributor and have like a clutch club.

[Chris B.]

When I use to live in surprise, we had neighbor chase off some guys that was about to steal my car!!! They already stole my roomates CD player and cd and was going to take my car right from my drive way. I was two minutes away from coming out of the house to. I was sooooo freeking pissed off!!! Austin I know exactly how you felt that night hearing about that.

Time to get an alarm!! I would take the coil wire off of the distributor and have like a clutch club.

Clutch club is a good idea, coil wire not so much! Here's why, when I was in high school my buddies used to take the coil wire just for fun, thinking you were stuck not being able to start your car. On the older cars all you have to do is remove a plug wire plug it into the distributor cap and coil and off you go. Granted you will only be running on 7 cylinders but the car will still run.