Car Alarm Rage Notes

[LORENSWIFE]

[DanStokes]

Ever notice how, when a car alarm goes off, EVERYONE drops what they are doing and comes running to call 911, restrain the intruder, etc? Nope, me neither. So the X%%&*# things are completely useless.

Truck occasionally sets off a couple of beeps when I hit the unlock button - total mystery and so far I haven't found a fix. Annoying.

Dan

[STINEY]

Its a MOPAR right Dan? In the owners manual there should be a section where you can "customize" the settings.......first thing I did when we bought the Magnum was "switch off" the horn from the key fob activations....I find that BEYOND annoying!

[LORENSWIFE]

Why is it that people park their cars get out and walk away only to set the alarm right as I am walking by their car? It always makes me jump!

[Scott Liggett]

I had a parking garage tenant ask me if my Impala always sets off car alarms. I said just the crappy ones.

As for these notes. Isnt always the case the person who has the alarm to deter thieves is the only one in town who never hears the damn thing going off.
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[milner351]

I once filled an entire paper shopping bag with wiring relays and crap I pulled out of a 5.0 mustang - once I got all that junk out of the car a bunch of weird issues went away.

I hate them all - the bottom line is - if someone wants your car - they're going to take it - no car alarm is going to stop a motivated thief with a roll back wrecker.

It's hard to beat the factory anti theft systems these days.

[Aircooled]

I'd like to disable the panic button on my key fob remotes. With my Firebird, the mere act of putting the keys in or out of my pants pocket could press enough on the panic button to set off the alarm. Very annoying

[Barry Donovan]

locally we get this spell when the ground becomes active, almost like a backwards lightning. A phenomena.
makes an electrical guru out of a car builder
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In the 5 years I have been here, one car is left unhindered..
this tiny carbureted ford festiva with 12 inch wheels.

wtf is that thing made out of. The guy even pays to get it detailed once a year. Gathers diarhea all year otherwise. lime green little puke mobile.

meanwhile 5 feet away..and all the way down the same street. A pole has been hit by lightning before no one even acknowledges how bad it is.
broken rear ends, pumps exploding seals mysteriously.. and the damn car alarms.
those have backed off some. maybe it only took 20 years this time.

[Scott Liggett]

A young lady neighbor has a toyo Rav 4 that came with an alarm of unknown make and no key fob. It kept going off and killing her battery. A couple of shops quoted nearly $1000 to remove it all and fix the wiring. I think they are taking advantage of a lady. To help out, I installed a knife switch on her battery for now.

[Whelk]

My mustang came with an annoying alarm. I put it in valet mode and ignored it for ten years. Finally one day it insisted on going off and stranding me at a strip mall. I bet I set it off ten times trying to get it out of that mode. No one responded to the alarm of course.

I ended up walking to a Lowes to buy some tools. I undid the ground wire for the system, the found the speaker for the alarm and cut the wires to it. Cars been fine ever since. I never did find the "brain" of the alarm system.

[Thumpin455]

I hate the damn things too. I have a special loathing for the aftermarket systems that get spliced in by some wannabe stereo monkey. Remove them and then its chase wires until you find the ignition kill wire they put in some remote place. Useless and annoying.

[DanStokes]

Its a MOPAR right Dan? In the owners manual there should be a section where you can "customize" the settings.......first thing I did when we bought the Magnum was "switch off" the horn from the key fob activations....I find that BEYOND annoying!

It only does it sometimes, and randomly. I haven't been able to correlate it to how I operate the buttons, phase of the moon, weather, sun spot activity, or any other phenomenon. Totally random. But thanks for the suggestion. Oh well.......

Dan

[Dan Barlow]

I'M KIND OF AT THE POINT THAT WHEN PEOPLE TURN ON THERE ALARMS WHETHER IT GOES OF WITHOUT REASON OR THEY ARE JUST SO INCONSIDERATE OF THE REST OF US THAT THEY HAVE TO LEAVE THAT STUPID HONK WHEN THEY TURN IT ON.....I HOPE IT GETS STOLEN. IF I SAW SOMEONE STEALING ONE OF THESE CARS I'D PROBABLY ASK IF THEY NEEDED GAS MONEY.And isn't it funny they expect us to do something. Why not get one that calls the owner without making the rest of us suffer with all the racket. We used to have one guy at work the set his to the point that the wind would set it off. I'd drive buy it every morning and rev my turbo muff equipted SBC in an effort to teach him a lesson. And he was a friend of mine.

[Scott Liggett]

I like those old paging type of alarms. Buddy had one. His pager kept going off while we were at lunch. He got up and found two schmucks using his car as a park bench. He yelled at them from the restaurant door to get off his car. Three guys offered to kick their asses for lack of respect of other people's property.

[TheSilverBuick]

My Dad cut the battery cable(s?) of a fox body mustang at the apartment complex we lived at when the alarm went off every night for a week straight.