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My '03 Passat has the factory alarm horn in the driver's side C-pillar on the inside. I chuckled at it's usefulness when the alarm went off and I was outside as it didn't seem particularly loud, but let me tell you my wife was royally pissed as she was sitting inside when that happened. And then I thought about it- it's probably more useful to annoy the crap out of the guy trying to rip off your car than the guy in his house who isn't going to bother to call the cops. On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:55:07 -0800 (PST), Air_Cooled_Nut <air_cooled_nut@pobox.com> wrote: > Modern car alarms come with a variety of 'bells-n-whistles' and you don't need > to buy an expensive unit. The $99 and less units JC Whitney sells are > actually rather good and I think are pretty easy to install. Many systems > come with enough stuff to get you by until you have the money to install > additional features as most features simply can be wired in to the main trip > wire. For example, the trip wire is activated by the door pin switches. You > can wire tap into that wire a shock sensor and later you could tap in a > interior sensor (great for convertibles and rolled down windows). > > One recommendation in the VW forum I'm on for the water-pumpers is to ALSO > place a siren INSIDE the cabin. Nothing like 130dB to put your nerves on end > when trying to commit a crime ;-) Of course you will want to put the interior > siren in a location that isn't easy for the crook to disable it, yet still > allow the noise to fill the cabin... > > >...These days it seems remote activated car alarmes are very commonplace. I > > imagine there are > > ones that could trigger an array of relays that serve different purposes than > > honking your > > horn or beeping, then it is just a matter of what parts of the electrical > > system should be > > disabled [and where]. In a sense, a well concealed, silent and -disabling- > > system may be > > more effective than a loud yet 'harmless' one. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >