Our campervan doesn't have an alarm - it may only be worth £15k or so today, but the list price of a new equivalent is well over £60k in Japan today. It only has a transponder immobiliser, no alarm.
Our campervan doesn't have an alarm - it may only be worth £15k or so today, but the list price of a new equivalent is well over £60k in Japan today. It only has a transponder immobiliser, no alarm.
If new, I would expect most insurance companies to expect you to have an alarm fitted. Some makes are considered more vulnerable and extra precautions are required. 70k seems to be the trigger point for a tracker unless the base vehicle or, if an A class, the locks etc are considered to be a better class. 80k and I would be surprised if a tracker wasn?t expected.
Many people have additional locks fitted to the habitation doors. Habitation doors vary, the better ones have multi-point locks. The poorer ones have a simple lock near the centre.
Vehicle alarms don't go off 'for ages' Unlike house ones.
I'm not sure my neighbours would agree after the episode with a damp Porsche Boxster and a dodgy battery.
You'd just be getting back to sleep and it would go off again. And again. And again.
I was kept awake several nights running by a faulty alarm on a KA, I did not know who owned it, so I put a note on the windscreen saying 'Please get the alarm looked at, as it is going off during the night' nothing else, the owner's husband (I later found out) took offence to this very polite note and apparently muttered all sorts of foulness against me (never came to anything, and they did get the alarm fixed.) quite bizarre behaviour, I thought.
House ones shouldn?t either but sometimes the timer doesn?t work. Ditto car alarms.
I think domestic alarms are supposed to cut out after 20 mins but heaven knows how many older designs there are still in service.
A cousin of my wife's, designed, built and installed his own alarm system and then went on holiday. The non-stop bell was remembered in the village for many years - it even got a mention at his funeal !
No it was round the corner but will be at a lawnmower race meeting this weekend just ending.
Wby on earth would anyone want to steal one of those ?
Perhaps a cat jumped on it .......
I put mine in about thirty years ago and that had an adjustable timer set to max is 20 minutes only.
I was tempted, just to move it to a layby and torch it.
They are called "containers" .... all to commonly used by motorbike stealing scrotes.
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