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- From: v523d85n@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Robert C Maggio)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio.car
- Subject: RE: CAR ALARMS
- Message-ID: <BxvA86.F95@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:41:00 GMT
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- In article <3653.110.uupcb@cccbbs.UUCP>, rob.runkle@cccbbs.UUCP (Rob Runkle) writes...
- >-> Maybe I am alone in this statement.
- >-> I would almost love to see some jerk get his car stolen
- >-> when I think of all of the false alarms I have to deal with!!
- >
- >I hope you are alone. Bitch and Moan......Awww! I don't know about you
- >but I have alot to protect in my car and if my alarm goes off once or
- >twice a year........tough! I have 4 different sensors in my car and it
- >RARELY ever goes off. If it does....it is because some ass bumped it or
- >something. So....as you say it.....DEAL WITH IT!
- > Thanx, Rob Runkle
- >P.S. Lets see if we can make everthing perfectly silent for this guy.
-
-
- i too have an alarm that is adjusted so that i have few if any falses.
- it irritates me that so many people have ploorly adjusted/installed alarms.
- every day i hear an alarm going off somewhere near my house. if the wind is
- blowing or there is a lightning storm, there are a few alarms that will be
- constantly going off and resetting themselves and going of...etc. i think that
- the owners get tired of turning them off and just let them scream for the 1-2
- minutes before they shut off automatically and then go off again. when a big
- truck goes down the street, it leaves a trail of wailing alarms.
- no wonder lpeople ignore a siren when they hear it.
-
- my alarm has falsed only once to my knowledge (i consider a false to be when
- the alarm triggers for an insignificant reason), this was when an air force
- bomber flew over at low - and i mean low- altitude. this was when i first
- installed it and was trying to find the proper adjustments for the sensors.
- i installed it myself because i do not trust the people you find in most
- places to do a good job. since this time, my alarm has been triggered only
- five times, this is in a year and a half of having the alarm:
-
- once some kids hit it with a football
- once some one left a dent in the side, probobly from a car door
- once when some guy at a car wash tried to get in the wrong car, not a thief
- believe it or not
- twice unknown - maybe these were falses
-
- i know this because my alarm signals any time it has been triggered when i
- return to the car.
-
- my point?
- since most car alarms are improperly installed or adjusted, the owner is the one
- who can be counted on to even notice his or her alarm siren. those of us with
- working alarms should be pissed at these folks with goofball setups because
- they decrease the efficiency and effectiveness of our own security systems
-
- rm
-