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I am considering getting a perimeter alarm for both of my cars (ok, car and the mighty beast). I am not sure if they are effective enough. I used to park them in a garage but I sould my house 1.5 yrs ago and am now in an apt w/o nearby garages and I have to park it outside.
Apparently my neighbor is terrifed of me b/c he didn't realize that it was one of his neighbors that he cut off w/o a signal & I flashed my lights @ him just for being a jerk. I guess he thought I followed him into the apts to have a few words w/him or whatever. Either way, boy in rice burner w/fart pipe freaked out. He hid and parked 3 buildings away up on a hill (hehehe).
So now, I am concered that he might try to get "even" eventhough all I did was flash my lights. I didn't make a big fuss about it.
If a squirrel is near my car or someone's dog runs nearby, will it set it off?? If he (or anyone) lays a finger on my car - that's when I want it to go off.
Perimeter alarms are fine if you have a pet in the car with the windows open and still want it alarmed. You can turn it off and still use a volumetric alarm for damaging breakins (broken windows, for example). Roswell is mostly urban, isn't it, whereas people ignore alarms. In the rural areas, people will hate you if your alarm goes off. Also, city police departments require alarms to be registered, are frowning on false alarms, and will fine you if they respond more than 2 times. Check with the local police to see what they think. Then decide. (My opinion)
As far as perimeter alarms go, they work well when calibrated correctly, but that can be difficult to do. You can get an alarm with a shock sensor, which will register the car getting hit, a noise sensor, which will register glass breaking, and a perimeter sensor, which will warn and then alarm for any intrusion into a field - think a bubble of space around the sensor. That bubble of space should stay inside the car, but some people set it to be too big and you end up with squirrels and passerby getting warned or alarmed.
Perimeter sensors are generally used when you have a convertible, Jeep, or other open vehicle to protect against people reaching into the vehicle. If you have a normal car you plan to keep closed, an alarm with just a shock and sound sensor will be fine and will save you the headaches of a perimeter alarm.
One of my neighbors had one of those alarms. Every time I parked (adjoining space) the dumb thing would go off. Never did see them shut it off, and most people ignored the alarm. Maybe not worth it.
They have to be set correctly, and most people don't set them well - they are really for monitoring the interior space of the car but people set them to monitor the area around the whole car, so they chirp and go off when people walk by them - highly annoying and it actually gives people more of a reason to vandalize a car.
just get LoJack or if that is to expensive go with a really good immobilizer these days car alarm or not if a theif wants your car they will get it and with Lojack the police can track the car and catch them in the act.
hi which car alarms are good for a cabriolet with a electric hood ???
You should start your own thread for your question rather than hijacking someone elses.
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