RE: Car alarms?

[Matt Coates <bencoates@yahoo.com>]

I would be careful with low end alarms.  Most of these will have one fuse for
the whole system, and shorting this fuse will disable the system.  It has been
a fews years, but IIRC even the lower end Alpine's had one fuse for all
"circuits" i.e. parking lights, alarm, door sensors, glass sensor, etc....

Clifford was a very popular choice for many reason's, one being it uses
seperate circuit breakers for all circuits.  Unfortunately Clifford is not
cheap.  Whichever ones you look at check out if it has a fuse or breakers... 
The parking light trick they do on the hotrod in Gone in Sixty seconds actually
works...

HTH,
Matt
'87 16v roc



--- "L. M. Lloyd" <ubik@austin.rr.com> wrote:
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> I wasn't trying to say they were completely worthless, just that you
> should look around and buy the cheapest one you can find. I have
> found that in the low end they are pretty much all the same, so there
> is little point in worrying about brand name. If you start wanting
> special features like pager support, cabin motion sensors, ignition
> cutoff, and the like, then the brand becomes more important, but in
> the under $150 install it yourself category, they are all pretty much
> the same.
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> The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process. 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Josh Hignight [mailto:Josh.Hignight@phoenix.edu]
> > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:23 PM
> > To: 'L. M. Lloyd'; Josh Hignight; 'scirocco'
> > Subject: RE: Car alarms?
> > 
> > 
> > Yeah, I read all this in previous posts in the archive, but 
> > nobody ever made
> > suggestions to actual alarms. I want an alarm. Not stupid blinking
> > lights. Cats in my city will break into your car unless the alarm
> > starts 
> > going off,
> > or if you have a silent pager one, they will wait to see if you 
> > come out to
> > check on your car. If it doesn't go off, or if no one comes out
> > after they bump a car with a silent one, then they'll gank your
> > stuff. So I'm getting an alarm to keep my stereo/amp and sub in my
> > car. 
> > 
> > So if you're going to comment that alarms are worthless, useless, 
> > a waste of
> > time/money, blah blah blah, I don't really want to hear it. My UNGO
> > in my previous car (90 cabby) kept the stereo and other misc. item
> > s in the car when it would go off (boy thieves in this town will
> > run fast when an alarm goes off in their ear). Even with the top
> > down (I witnessed it 
> > from afar). 
> > 
> > So  :P
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Joshua Hignight
> > Student Services/Technical Services
> > New Mexico Campus
> > (505) 821-4800
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