Car Alarms

[asshanson]

Originally Posted by x-pride

They don't have an auto start for manuals.

Not true, I have one on my manual and it works great.

Originally Posted by SLOW_V

Honestly the pager does not work that well.

My pager works great, it's beeped and I've gone out to catch someone who dinged my door on several occasions. I'm pretty confident that if someone was breaking in, it would page me then too.

Try these, maybe you can find cheaper ones on ebay though, I just found the first few that looked like the nice 2 way paging ones:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Viper-791XV-Remo...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Viper...76981971QQrdZ1

The following one is used, but much cheaper. Also has a lot of nice extras like the trunk popper and the proximity sensor. Hell, it even has two remotes (identical to the one I have actually), although one is missing the battery cover. If I didn't already have this, I'd get it.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Viper-remote-sta...QQcmdZViewItem

[Halon]

OK, DEI, but on ebay you look up that, and it shows you bits and pieces. I have no idea what any of this crap is. And there are a million different models. And I want a pager, that way I know if someone is messing with it. If I'm somewhere where I wouldn't hear the alarm, I'd like to know it went off so I can get out there asap.

[Scrmegl]

Except for the page feature would it be more effective to make a creative kill switch. If someone wants a car they can usually get it before you get there. A kill switch could really slow them down and hopefully it would be no worse than a scratch or broken window before they give up.

[Halon]

Hey Ass Hanson, thanks for the links. How do I know if these will work with a turbo timer, or have a built in turbo timer, or what?

[Halon]

Hey Craig, I have found a couple Compustar ones on there that look resonably priced. Are they pretty decent? Here's the 2 I'm looking at.

http://cgi.ebay.com/COMPUSTAR-2WFM-A...QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/COMPUSTAR-2W900F...QQcmdZViewItem

They both seem to have what I'm looking for. But the 2nd one, you can see this big antenna in the picture. Where in the heck do they put that? I don't want that thing dangling on the outside of the car somewhere.

[Thor06]

Wow, this is all very interesting. I thought to get a remotely good alarm you needed to be like $600-$800 deep in shit. Since they are <$200, I may have to invest in one. Theft isnt a big deal back home, but on something like that I would definately want to take extra precautions. I would definately get a remote though, nice feature to have.

[Halon]

I'm really considering that Compustar one. Looks to have everything I want, including a built in turbo timer. I will probably pick one of those 2 compustar ones I linked to. I like the 2nd one better, as it has better range, but I'm wondering where is that antenna going to be. I don't want random antennas poking out of places.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

I had a compustar on my 240 and it worked great for about a year, then the siren stopped working, and a couple months later I had to disconect it cuz it was killing the battery overnight.