Custom alarm system

[ccookie66]

I just installed a custom alarm system on my Astro. I still need to hook up the switch so I can turn it on when I want. I did have it hooked up a couple years ago, but it went off in a Wal-Mart parking lot and I couldn't turn it off. Its super loud, and it works pretty good.

[chevymaher]

When I worked at Fartstone. People would have alarms like that. You go to take the mileage and start the car. It would go off. Never can get them to go off. Look inside and the owner laughing at you.

Well after that happened a while, I stopped trying to turn them off. Just went about my job and let it run. Took the mileage and checked the things I was supposed to check. Then walked back in and got the next car. Leave it in the parking lot wailing it's heart out.

I am putting tires on the next car. The customer comes out and says I thought I was next. I said you are but your car won't start you have a car alarm.

Customer was really annoyed and said they had to be somewhere. Ask me why I didn't come get him to shut it off. I told him you knew it had a alarm and didn't say anything. Laughed like it the funniest thing in the world because I can't turn it off without knowing how.

You were more interested in causing a scene than getting your tires changed. You had 5 minutes to come out and shut it off while I took mileage and gave the car a safety check. You were pointing and laughing you knew it needed to be shut off.

I got a lot to do today and don't have time for games. I went back to work. I told him it wasn't quite as funny as he thought it would be Was it?

Mysteriously right after that people started remembering they had alarms. Oh I have a alarm this is how you disarm it.

[Big_kid]

Yeah, that happened @ Tire America too. I still remember this one car that had to have the left turn signal on, and step on the brake pedal to start it.

Come to think of it, I've not heard a car alarm like Cookie's go off in several years. Life is getting better.

[ccookie66]

I want to hook it up to a switch so I can turn it on and off as I please. As long as it doesn't go off by itself or get stuck on...then we are all good. Just like the auto lock doors on my Astro...

[paintdrying]

I could sit there and watch someone steal your van, break the windows, steal all the tires and never even notice the alarm. Their have been hundreds of thousands of false alarms and people just do not care if a car alarm is going off.
Or they think, do what you want to that car just make it stop. Those car alarms became a real quality of life issue .

[ccookie66]

I could sit there and watch someone steal your van, break the windows, steal all the tires and never even notice the alarm. Their have been hundreds of thousands of false alarms and people just do not care if a car alarm is going off.
Or they think, do what you want to that car just make it stop. Those car alarms became a real quality of life issue .

Yeah actually its true. I test my alarm all the time and the neighbors don't even care. Thats why I would have it on a switch, not all hooked up so when the door is open it will go off or anything. I just like to scare people who walk by my van.

[chevymaher]

I could sit there and watch someone steal your van, break the windows, steal all the tires and never even notice the alarm. Their have been hundreds of thousands of false alarms and people just do not care if a car alarm is going off.
Or they think, do what you want to that car just make it stop. Those car alarms became a real quality of life issue .

That is funny. When somebodies annoying alarm goes off alot. I catch myself thinking. "I wish somebody would rob them, Break their windows. Serve them right for waking me up all night."

[paintdrying]

I would go ahead and just throw a rooster or two in there, no better alarm than a grumpy rooster

[Jasen]

I don't pay any attention to them anymore aside from the annoyance they are causing me. If I was to put in another, I would stash a couple 120 db pizo buzzers in it so they can't stay in it without their ears bleeding and an ignition or fuel pump lock out, but no outside siren.

[Lumpy]

If I was to put in another, I would stash a couple 120 db pizo buzzers in it so they can't stay in it without their ears bleeding...

I did that decades ago with my Pinto. Thieves kept stealing my 8 track tape decks. I mounted electric car horns inside on the B pillar with a simple pin switch in the door, key on/off switch on the fender. If someone broke in to either driver or passenger door, they were faced with a car horn inches away fron their ears.


Lump

[Jasen]

The last time I put an alarm in one of my rigs I put a pizo in one of the dash vents and one in the headliner just over the drivers seat. Me and my buddy got in, closed the doors to test them. We could not get out of the car fast enough, it was actually painfull