Why bother with CAr Alarm?

[Fascarz]

Hey h0ndavtec, just wondering if you had any experience with the Autolock (the one on TV that bolts to your brake or clutch pedal)? I have a Sidewinder alarm with all the goodies (auto-window rollup, power locks, remote starter, starter kill, etc), and was thinking about adding additional security as well with a club AND the Autolock. I figure if they really want my car, they'll have to work REALLY hard at getting it. Oh, I'm also looking for a hoodlock for our cars as well. My friend who owns a stereo/alarm shop says that he hasn't found one that isn't a bitch to install and that works really well yet...any ideas???

[SQ is the SQUAD]

hor the hood lock get a chapman, i am getting one for my hood and one for my trunk, sure the old big and ugly but i havent see or heard on any other. as for the auto lock and club, thoce will come off with a simple cut of the steering wheel, but there still good to have. i saw this new club device the other day that looks pretty good, it covers the whole steering wheel making it very hard to cut through. i havenl looked at it up close but i am sure with enough force you can take a nice screw driver or pry bar and bend the steering wheel out of it or bend it off the stering wheel. there is no saftey device that a crook cannot get therogh. i rember when those removeanle staaring wheeks where popular, then theves just started bringing there own steering wheels. take out cars for instance, once a theif gets in, if he has 2 mins to spare all he needs is a screwdriver and a 4 way wire wrench. all he has to do is pop the h simbol off the horn piece and unscrew the steering wheel, take it off and put his own on and be on his merry way.

[RobT5580]

Hondavtec, thanks for that info on ebay i was planning on getting the door locks and trunk release but autolock was so expensive so i put it off and i was gonna go to a junk yard and take the door locks out of a 4dr because they should fit properly but i just ordered that stuff because it was so cheap. we will have to see on quality but if its a problem i can upgrade later. My alarm is already set up for all of that stuff so it should be good except all the wires that i will have under my dash with all the existing alarm/remote start and stereo wires.

[SQ is the SQUAD]

wires are everywhere on my car. i placed my alarm box under my dricerss eat so when a theif goes to look for it they wont be able to find it, all they will se is a bunch of speaker wire. alot of times alarm boxes get ripped out by the plugs cuz they are right inde the dash. i taped all my wires up good with elictrical tape and zip ties to make it harder to be ripped out. my next project is to have a small back up battery that can handle the 12v power source in the case i het a theif who is smart enough to take the bettery terminals off. it will also help sine i got no door handles and rely on door poppers to get into my car. if i run my alarm to a back up battery, even if my car battery is dead or reomved my alarm will still work

[smufguy]

if its what u really want get somethign that blocks the gas pedal and locks up ur wheels with the brakes. That would be fun. yeah he could like put trolly wheels under ur tires and move it but hey, he aint gonna be that desperate for a 3g when he could go for something else with his effort.

[sanjay]

YEah but I'm worried they're gonna steal my beautiful sound system...
or my MAGs.....

[SQ is the SQUAD]

::bump::
alot of people need to read this thread

[Cobraman15]

Lets face it the only effective alarm system is the james bond security system, where the guy breaks the car window and the whole car explodes

[premier89lxi]

Having installed dozens of alarms i can honestly say with all the accesories for alarms theres not much that cant be done. with all alarms we intall we recomend a batt. back up witch will alow your alam to go off for up to 5 min. if your power to the alarm is cut,and mini peizo sirens witch mount under your dash and have a extremly loud tone that a theif couldent stand if he was gonna try to get under there to unplug the alarm.there is pagers,glass break sen.,mercury switches(completes a circut if car is jacked up) prox sensers(creates a feild aroun the car that if broken will give warning then go off,if you stick your hand in the car it goes off instanly)and many more accesories it would take to long to list. my point is that with all the cool things you can do with an alarm its a no brainer to have one.Even if people dont pay attetion to them in a store parking lot i promise they will at 4:00 in the morning when it wakes them up. If you need help installing one i can help......on our cars its easy!!!!

[juiquan]

any alarm systems that give off eletrical voltage?

[catalin]

Originally posted by juiquan
any alarm systems that give off eletrical voltage?

No, I'm pretty sure it's illegal.. Remember the laws sometime protect the criminals more than the honest people.

Check this out though..http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/africa/9812...e.thrower.car/

[AccordEpicenter]

Well, I live in suburbia hell, and weve had 3 (YES 3) radios ripped off in my dads Civic HB, and that was red and had dark window tint. They ripped off 2 JVC tape decks and a Sony cd player with no faceplate. The cd player was ripped off in broad daylight in the city, and the other 2 were ripped off right in my driveway. The car always had an alarm, but it never worked even though it was replaced 2x. I dont think most thieves care about alarms, theyll steal your stuff anyways or work around the alarm. I think you need to think about other stuff, like not having dark window tint or stuff like that, cuz everybody knows I have a loud system in my car, but it always locked and I dotn have dark window tint or car audio decals.

[sanjay]

maybe accordepicenter has a marked car...
caitlin, that is one weird ass story..

[89accordboi]

i'd get a car alarm if i had the money - i think its worth it because hondas are the #1 cars to be stolen cuz they are ez to break into and hotwire i guess

[KWoodRacer]

Buy a car alarm. My old cavalier got broken into and they took the cd deck and all the speakers. I didn't even know this was happening because I did not have a alarm, and if you buy a alarm make sure it is a 2 way alarm so you can see what is happening to your car.