and its official....the 02-03 lancer is probably the easiest car to kill an alarm on or loose any engine goodies....or just get your engine wrecked..... i wish i had a digi cam to post pics but i dont. anyways on the stock front bumper in the middle there is plastic diamond mesh.....all you need to do with that is take a wire cutter, cut a hole big enough to fit your hand through, reach up inside, and pop the hood.......now if you have an alarm someone will be waiting on the battery side with a wire cutter to snip your negative battery terminal so your alarm dies........but from there it looked like it was all smooth sailing.......im telling you guys this so what happened to my car dosent happen to yours so try to think of something to protect your latch and if anyone has a great idea then post it up.....

 

back in the day when i was into VW's i had a backupsiren that had its own power that was in a tough spot to get along with putting the Pin switch for the Hood in the rear instead of the front, which when pulling on the hood latch wire they would scan for pin switches and hold them down and then snip the power, well it saved my car one night thieves tried to pop my emblem off brought my hood up and my alarm goes blazing saved my car. Mind it this was over 9 years ago but having a backup self powered siren should save ya.

 

That's why you use backup batteries for the alarm.

 

Thats what im going to do when I put my alarm on. its like the only you know your car will be safe from some thing like that.

 

yeah im putting a backup battery in, thats why i asked the optima battery question....and nick if you seen the vuitton youd like it garunteed, ill get a pic sometime soon.

 

oh yeah, it can probably happen with a ralliart grill too.

 

backup battery and a grounding kit would have prevented it from not going off

 

o well lancer stolen.. yay insurance check. unless they just take my intake! dam them....

 

just sell it if you dont want it

 

cool now i know how to steal the next guys lancer. all thanks to u.

 

yeah, be a ***......i was just looking out for other lancer owners....plus its not that hard to just break a window and get in.....thats probably easier than cutting away the plastic mesh......sorry for looking out for everyone

 

Just dont be cheap with the alarm mine has an ignition kill switch, so they can kill the horn all they want but it still isint going anywhere.

 

yeah mine too...they didnt try to steal the car... they just wanted my audio equipment

 

my cars not covered. i just got the material on the door pannels wrapped and the shift boot

 

slim jim works at breaking in thats how they got into my car but i didnt have an alarm but ****ers got away with my system