Your car alarm

sassy_one

Lum wrote: »

Sounds about right, my one that was set off by nearby cat farts was a Clifford, hated it. Funnily enough I saw the new "revision 2" of my alarm the other day, it's basically the same except as well as the flashing blue LED (which I hated and replaced with a dimmer purple one) it now has a 4"x1" blue electroluminescent stick in the windscreen that says "Dear car thieves I have a Clifford Concept 650 revision 2 fitted, so please be sure to plan your break in in advance after looking up the wiring diagrams on the internet". Awful alarms. Lots of nice fancy gadgetry but so unreliable.



Sounds about right for Newport.

To be honest if your Mondeo is a daily driver I wouldn't bother spending the money (cost me £285) on what I had done. That car is a weekend toy for me but if I was using it daily, taking it to Tesco etc. I'd be constantly worrying that someone was going to scuff a corner or open a door into it. In fact I had to lend it to my GF today to get to work as her car is in for an MOT and even though it's now home and she says it's fine I'm not home until Wednesday night and I'm worried about it.

I have a Mondeo to take all the day to day abuse of car park idiots and poor drivers!

If you really want it done, give the guy a ring, his website is ti22.co.uk and have a word with him, he knows his stuff.

True very true!

I had a crack in the rear bumper on mine and being it's fitted with ST bumpers, it's not just a case of getting a new one.

Got the rear replaced, then come out a few days after gettinga new rear fitted and the front has been banged and has a huge hole in it, again it's a ST one.

Total cost to replace both bumpers including spraying £450!
Footed the repair costs myself, even though I'm fully compo, however can't foot repairs myself on it any more so any more damage and I have to claim!
They have been replaced with ST bumpers however, better ones at that too

I was considering getting it done, but thinking seriously as you say, I would be worried and I know how jealous others can get of a car

I keep him in mind if I ever do decide to get it done though.


Yeah, regards those alarms, I remember the Honda I had with one fitted, I could start the car with the remote, I loved doing that haha Knightrider haha

Lum

I'd be very careful with remote starters. Some can invalidate your insurance and I'm fairly sure there's laws against leaving a car engine running when you're not in or nearby it.

Also fitting them to a manual car is just asking to accidentally put it through your garage door / driveway gate / neighbours bumper one day.

sassy_one

Lum wrote: »

I'd be very careful with remote starters. Some can invalidate your insurance and I'm fairly sure there's laws against leaving a car engine running when you're not in or nearby it.

Also fitting them to a manual car is just asking to accidentally put it through your garage door / driveway gate / neighbours bumper one day.

I don't have one fitted, just my factory fitted one now
I did though, as I say on the Honda.

And yes, I think you are completely right, I believe it is an offence to leave a running engine on a car unattended.

I have an automatic, much prefer them, so easy to drive and much better round town

juno

I don't even know if my car has an alarm

red_eye

Lum wrote: »

I too went for the Toad AI606, had Cliffords in the past and have always had problems with them, especially that stupid proximity sensor that always fails and starts chirping constantly rather than how it's designed to operate which is to chirp every time a cat farts within a 50 yard radius.

Wouldn't know if it's mine or not simply because my GF has the same alarm, but as stated above any competent thief will have your car anyway, I mainly got it for the remote central locking and remote boot release because I'm lazy.

You're supposed to be able to program a second car into the keyfob too, but my fitter wasn't sure how to do this. Anyone know?

It is not in the fitters manual but in the control summery of the user manual it lists button presses for second car arm. So im guessing you just add the fob to the 2nd car and press button 1 and 2 to arm/disarm second car. the ai606 has been around for years the documents should be easy to find on the internet

Lum

red_eye wrote: »

It is not in the fitters manual but in the control summery of the user manual it lists button presses for second car arm. So im guessing you just add the fob to the 2nd car and press button 1 and 2 to arm/disarm second car. the ai606 has been around for years the documents should be easy to find on the internet

The installers manuals floating around on the internet don't say how to do it, the only reference to it anywhere is that note in the control summary.

It's one thing that is really getting on my nerves as that feature was one of the major reasons for purchasing this alarm for both cars, means I only have to carry one fob and two keys and I can get into either car.

The only other alarm I know of that does it is Clifford and there's no way I'm having another Clifford.

anewman

Lum wrote: »

The only other alarm I know of that does it is Clifford and there's no way I'm having another Clifford.

Clifford seem ok to me. Granted the proximity occasionally warned away (beep beep beep) in heavy rain, and sometimes it would do it when cars parked up next to it, but in general it needed some kind of interference to make it go off. I think the problem with the prox sensors is bad adjustment or that they have a tendency to adjust themselves. A glass break sensor is probably better anyway, less chance of false alarming - only bad thing is glass has to be broken for it to go off and by then you're looking at the insurance excess for a new window.

TBH I wouldn't buy a Clifford again as with something like a Viper (made by same company as Clifford, DEI) you get more features for less money.

red_eye

Lum wrote: »

The installers manuals floating around on the internet don't say how to do it, the only reference to it anywhere is that note in the control summary.

It's one thing that is really getting on my nerves as that feature was one of the major reasons for purchasing this alarm for both cars, means I only have to carry one fob and two keys and I can get into either car.

The only other alarm I know of that does it is Clifford and there's no way I'm having another Clifford.

only thing i can say is try to add the fob to the second car. whats the worst that can happen you have to delete the fobs and store them again.

Kilty_2

I know the sound because it goes off randomly when I open the door in the morning :rotfl:

Strider590 wrote: »

Haven't tested mine yet, ill go unlocked the door with the key later and find out

Pointless anyway, I was in Wolverhampton years ago, saw someone breaking into a small van in the middle of town, windows smashes, alarm goes off and 100+ people just walk on by..... I was probably about 15years old, so 15 years ago, but it's no different now.

:eek: - guess where my car is parked at the moment, lol.

sassy_one

Kilty wrote: »

I know the sound because it goes off randomly when I open the door in the morning :rotfl:



:eek: - guess where my car is parked at the moment, lol.

Oh dear, hope your no claims is protected