Car alarm suggestions for '96 Fiat Punto?

overcharged

Hi Guys

'Death drivers'/joyriders tried to break into my pensioner dad's 1996 Fiat Punto 9 times in past 2 days.

Any suggestions for any quick and easy to install car alarms please?

Warm regards

forgotmyname

If its quick and easy to install it will be even quicker to uninstall or disable.

Get a decent steering lock.

Yorkie1

Or one of those triangular wheel locks / clamps?

overcharged

Thanks guys -- he has a steering wheel lock which is excellent but would love something that makes a racket...but yeah I see your point that they might be able to disable it as soon as it starts :sad:

forgotmyname

I always remember when the Sierra Cosworth's came out. There was a story going around that one owner bought a state of the art alarm system for his.

Woke up the following morning to find the car gone but the alarm left behind in a pile.

They may disable it before the alarm triggers. Voltage sensing. As long as the interior light doesnt come on then it wont trigger.
Ultrasonics etc. They help trigger false alarms until you turn the sensitivity down. Then you can walk a herd of elephants through it without triggering.

If its a decent steering lock then they will move onto something easier.

Anything on the car make it stand out? Many moons ago, I lived in a flat and had an old classic mini. Nobody ever touched it. A neighbour who was a bit younger than me bought one covered in stickers and rally bits.
Even though it was an 850cc one with zero performance it didnt stop them trying to steal it several times.

Just attracted attention. Something i have always done my best to avoid. Get the bigger engined model. But not the sporty/tarted up one.

phill99

Dead locks on the door are a far better option. They will stop them getting in, rather than an alarm which is only action after the event.

overcharged

Thanks for the feedback guys. It's just a basic little plain car that's unfortunately easy to break into, in an area of extremely high anti-social behaviour.

Dead locks sound interesting -- any suggestions in particular for brands/model?

It's a Fiat Punto 2 door hatchback 1996 (possibly 97)

colino

You really only want the cheapest, noisiest, most visible alarm on something like that. Anything else on top of the steering lock you have just gets silly in comparison to the value of the car. Unfortunately with most modern cars being fitted with great security, the older things are being targeted by the knuckle draggers. Please don't call them joyriders, anti-social, thieving vermin don't need or deserve a polite moniker.

overcharged

colino wrote: »

Please don't call them joyriders, anti-social, thieving vermin don't need or deserve a polite moniker.

Yep 'death drivers' is good, vermin is better!

chrisw

Those puntos are extremely difficult to drive off without the correct key so it's more likely that they were looking for something to steal. Never leave anything in it and perhaps leave the glove box open and the parcel shelf off so it's obvious there's nothing inside.

overcharged

chrisw wrote: »

Those puntos are extremely difficult to drive off without the correct key so it's more likely that they were looking for something to steal. Never leave anything in it and perhaps leave the glove box open and the parcel shelf off so it's obvious there's nothing inside.

They were unable to hotwire it so pushed it into an adjoining street and were on verge of setting fire to it when police intercepted and pushed it back again. The following night they tried 7(!) times to steal it again. Was like 'Night of the living dead'. Police think they wanted to destroy the car out of sheer frustration that they didn't burn it the first time round. For now we've had the damaged car towed away to safety.