Car Alarm recommendations?
 

What brand/type/features would you recommend for a car alarm. My car was broken into for the second time. Luckily it wasn't stolen and there's not much to take.

I can't hear anything that happens on the street, and if I did, I would have to run downstairs and out the door to check.

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as long as it make a bunch of noise thats all they are good for. pretty much any car alarm these days can run power door locks or trunks. I have a "code alarm" on my car, works fine.

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you can get ones that alert the keychain controler also so if you cant here it where your at your keychain will be going off also

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i've got the basic viper alarm installed.

do yourself a favour and get the backup siren (not the "reverse backup alarm") but a siren that has a built in battery so if they cut the wires it still goes ;)

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i had a black widow in my shitbird, and my buddy has a Alpine one in his Blazer, cause he rolls deuce deuce's.

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yeah, those are cool. like beeoers and ----. It alerts you when someone is ------- with your car. but those cost like 300 bux.

good luck mang!

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I used to install DEI alarms, meaning viper and a bunch of other ones like hornet wasp and ----, the cheaper ones were al the same. Besdes features like extra channels, remote start, pagers, and how far the remote will work from. I would not reccomend getting one of the paging alarms, unless you don't mind spending a ---- ton of money. I have had the viper 791XV I think its called, and I have went through 4 remotes, at a hundred bucks each. Each one did not even last two months before the display went bad, then a few more months before the remote didn't work at all.

The moral of this story is just get a cheap model of a name brand alarm. If you want extra protection get extra sirens, including the peizo interior siren, and install the alarm well, IE where the theif cant see the wires pull tem down and cut them.

Keep in mind a alarm will only go off for about 10 seconds with a good theif because they will break the window, pop the hood and disconnect the battery, and go to town, so you want t to be loud

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Bah, it's called a battery back-up, and I don't mean just the siren. DEI (and others I'm sure) sell a battery back-up unit. It should be well hidden with the alarm as Fork stated. If they are able to get under the hood withoug setting off the alarm, the battery back-up will trigger the alarm AND it can maintain normal alarm functions for approximately 6 hours. I'm a Clifford dealer and I will agree with Fork abou the LCD remotes, although I have not had as severe a problem with them as he has, I do know of a few people that have had problems with the remotes.

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anyone here try the deadbolt thing that was posted on ht?

here it is:
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=162718

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Damn, I've had my 791XV for about 7 months now and I'm still on the same remote, I hope that doesnt mean that it'll be going out soon. I love that alarm, it gets the job done.