Re: Car alarm installers rant

ruens wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:22:17 -0500, ChrisB
> <ChrisB@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> (...)
> 
>> No ****.  One of my police officer friends told me how sophisticated
the 
>> thieves were regarding the LS1 thefts in the state.  He then went on to

>> tell me how the thieves have tow trucks in the New Orleans area, and 
>> seem as though they are towing vehicles for legitimate reasons. 
>> Uniforms, papers, you name it.
>>
>> Although I can't stop someone from stealing my car, I want to make the 
>> bastard work to take mine!  I already have a super stealth car alarm 
>> install planned where the brain won't be where a thief would expect it 
>> to be (unless he feels like disassembling the interior of the car) and
I 
>> am thinking of going with a non-traditional method to prevent the 
>> vehicle from running, in addition to the starter interrupt!  The only 
>> downside to this is I easily see my install taking close to 16 hours
due 
>> to the re-routing of the wires and the not so standard location of the 
>> brain.  No shop around here would take on that monumental task, plus it

>> wouldn't be worth the labor they would charge anyhow!
> 
> In addition to hiding the brain, you should consider a backup battery
> and a few backup sirens. A hidden alarm brain alone is useless if the
> battery wire is cut or removed.

Oh, I am definitely going with a battery backup!  Every alarm I ever 
installed had one, so this will be no exception.

I am also going to use a couple of pain generators inside the cabin, as 
Matt suggested!  That delayed trigger is also a good idea.

Of all the ironies, a friend of mine who works as an installer at Best 
Buy has been telling me what I should do!  He said that they, Best Buy, 
don't do starter disables because they were forced to pay too many tow 
charges, yet he told me that I need to disrupt the starter AND something 
else (fuel pump and/or ECU) because the starter disable would not stop a 
thief from push starting my car!  I just find it ironic that he is 
making suggestions of how to protect my vehicle yet he doesn't install 
those protection features as a "professional" installer.