I'm having my alarm system installed tomorrow and I just wanted to make sure im not missing anything:

This is what i'm having done:
- Full Alarm
- Interior Motion Sensor
- Pager
- Auto Start
- Kill Switch

Am i missing anything?

Should I ask them to add anything to the list?

 

get a sensor under the hood, for when it's opened w/o turning off the alarm, to kill the starter

 

i didnt know they could do that.. excellent idea

any others?

 

Side mount flamethrowers. Broom and dust pan in the trunk with the monkey.

 

It's not the alarm, it's the install that counts the most. Make sure the brain is zip tied to your steering column, make sure they don't just T-Tap the connections to save time and make life easy for a theif. Most alarm installs that come into my shop make it easier for me to shot wire a car and that's why alarms get a bad rap, it's not the alarms fault, it's the installers. I can hand you my keys and you wouldn't be able to take my car.

 

The thing with alarms is not many people pay attention to them anymore... how many times have you heard an alarm going off in a parking lot... now how many times have you investagated it? I had a great alarm system in my integra professionally installed by the best install company I know of and didnt do 1 bit of good at all I totally wasted about 1000 bucks on something that did nothing for me good install or not it doesn't prevent people from getting your stuff and the pager things have a very short range and usually don't work inside large buildings etc.

take it from someone who has had multiple systems stolen ... Don't bother with alarms just insure the damn thing cheaper and much better in the long run ...

also making your car imposible to steal seems like a good idea ( i did it with my teg like bill said you couldn't start it if I handed you the keys) but when a person sees they can't hotwire or start it chances are they will bust the hell out of it on their way out which ends up being just as big of a headache as if they just took what they wanted and left.

just a couple things to keep in mind before you drop a ton of money into an alarm system.

 

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I'm getting add-on to my keyless entry and all the other sensor I will put it by myself. Now considering that nobody ever pays attention to alarms going off, well I want to put some strobe lights.

IDEA:
Do you think it is possible to put a small digital camera (two) inside of the car and have it shoot couple of pics everytime someone is getting close to the car???
Obviosly cameras would have been hidden, one facing the rear of the car from the front and another one facing front from the rear.

 

I'm sure it could be done not sure what the cost would be

 

Get a hold of one of those new nano-itx boards and conceal it in your trunk. Then hide a webcam in the car. lol. Set it to record on motion.

 

Instead of going with interior motion you should've gone with an exterior proximity sensor. If you wanted to have something on the interior you could've gone allout with a pressure and/or glass break sensor (mic tuned to the sound of glass breaking among other things). You can also go with a trunk sensor if you have anything back there. Lastly a 2-way paging system is nice in the even that you're within range if something were to happen.

I have a prety nice alarm but I'm still getting my mods covered. All an alarm will do in the long run is make the thief's job more annoying.

 

Battery backup, in case the some jack *** cuts power to the car thinking he'll take out the alarm, no battery, alarm still protects.

 

[QUOTE=ghostrider] You can also go with a trunk sensor if you have anything back there.

You can just wire one of the auxillaries to the dome light in the trunk to the alrm and it would do the same thing as a sensor or pin switch, trunk gets jimmied open=alarm is triggered.

 

This man knows what he's talking about!

Install > Product and "options" (although, I still will never own anything but a Compustar)