Security alarms

Lo-jack stickers and a blinky red LED

Well, what do YOU do when you hear a cal alarm? Do you rush towards it yelling "Stop, thief", or do you ignore it? if YOU don't react to them, and it appears that nobody else does either, what good are they -- besides creating noise pollution?

if you don't mind installing it yourself then, do a search on ebay and buy something that is not shipped from China. something that is stocked in canada or usa such as this:

call around to audio or after market truck parts stores and buy itthere, and get them to install it.I don't think I would buy it for the alarm, but the remote start mightbe nice.

Number one, you get a discount on your auto insurance. At least, I do.

Number two, the alarm will awaken some people from their trances, and they might have a chance of seeing who is stealing the car.

Not in a city with more than a few thousand people. The only thing a wailing car alarm does for people other than the owner is make them want to retrieve a large crecent wrench to smash out the windows of the wailing car for the crime of waking them from their sleep.

Get one that goes off every five minutes in the parking lot, all night long, so your neighbors will be constantly checking it. This will dissuade thieves from coming anywhere near it.

--scott

I lived once in a neighborhood where the normal reaction to car alarms going off was for people to shoot at the car until the alarm stopped.

--scott

On a related note, in anaheim california, disney does a fireworks show every night and many the car alarms in the area are triggered. I wonder how many people who tried to park their cars for a week return to a dead battery?

I have Lo-Jack on my car, and you don't get stickers or a blinky red LED. I did get the early detection warning and if my car moves without the sensor, I get a phone call / email / etc. That reminds me, I need to try that out...

Terry

Probably very few. The alarm resets after a few minutes so even if it went off everyday there wouldn't be much drain on the battery for a few minutes of headlight time.

Were I in the market for an alarm today I would be looking at one that can let you know remotely that it is being disturbed. As many others have said a blaring alarm gets you nothing except possibly more damage from annoyed neighbors etc.. The remote page units let you know there is a problem so you can go take care of it yourself. I know Viper has a couple of systems with this functionality and would imagine others do as well.

Steve B.