In ,
Dan Ricketts decided to enlighten our sheltered
souls with a rant as follows
Hi All,

Well after writing off my astra I now have a shiny new vectra :-)
Of course I want to do whatever I can to stop some little scrote
wandering off with it so I want to get an alarm installed ASAP.
I had a clifford arrow 3 in the astra, but the piezo sensor was utter
crap and was either way to sensitive or didn't go off when a window
was put through, plus it seemed to false more in the rain!?. So I'm
now in the market for a better alarm, still thinking of a clifford
but could probably be persuaded otherwise. The features I require are;

Control of remote central locking (including deadlock from the remote)
(already possible with factory central locking),
Total closure of electric windows (already fitted),
Movement and glass break sensor (possibly proximity as well)
Plus most of the features that come with the arrow 3 but with less
falsing!

Any recommendations would be great!

a rottweiler with a fire extinguisher.

IMO Car Alarms are a 99% waste of time. IF they go off, nobody bats an
eyelid anyway. I spent a fortune on a full on Cat1 job on a car I had years
ago, got home, was dozing peacefully on the couch, when I woke up my mum
turned to me and said "Oh, Pete, was that your car alarm going off before?".
Went out to the car and the local knobheads had thrust a steaming great
screwdriver through the doorskin, levered out the doorlock, and appear to
have lost their patience with the deadlocks (on an Escort, ffs, hardly
rocket science).. Alarm didn't cause any grief to them at all, they just
kept on goin regardless.

Heh, that and the fact it took less than 30 seconds to bypass the Cat1 alarm
on the XJ-S.


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Pete M

Alfa 164 TS,
Mercedes 500 SEL,
Jaguar XJ-S 3.6

Scouse Git extraordinaire.
Liverpool, Great Britain