Car alarms, yay or nay?

Stallingrad

So I hear German cars are favoured by car thieves, great. I always used to have an alarm but not now, kind of figured cars are not really stolen without the keys, and if they have the key, what use an alarm?

So do you think an alarm is worth it and if so what type/make?

Anan1

I think it's more down to what you leave in the car rather than the car itself. The keys protect the car, the alarm protects the contents?

Honey-ec

Unless it's something like a Clifford with a blackjack, I'd say no, don't bother. No-one pays any attention to car alarms and if they have your keys, it's moot anyway.

djimi

Depends on how you are looking to protect the car I suppose. I have the alarm in mine more so for when Im parking away from the house. Even though I have a Clifford with the Blackjax anti-theft, if someone wants the car badly enough from outside my house theyll come in and take the keys and "ask" for the code. Its more for piece of mind where they cant get at the keys or get at me for the code.

The Real B-man

If it doesn't constantly go off in you're neighbours drive way at 3am im all for them :mad:

Honey-ec

djimi wrote: »

Depends on how you are looking to protect the car I suppose. I have the alarm in mine more so for when Im parking away from the house. Even though I have a Clifford with the Blackjax anti-theft, if someone wants the car badly enough from outside my house theyll come in and take the keys and "ask" for the code. Its more for piece of mind where they cant get at the keys or get at me for the code.

The thing this, they'll be halfway down the road before they realise they need a code. I really can't see any thief risking coming back up to anyone's house, with the very real possibility that the cops will have arrived in the meantime or that the owner will be wielding a three wood, and "asking" for the code. They'll just leg it when the car cuts out on them.

Gary ITR

I had a Clifford myself, savage alarm and I would have been confident parking NY car in dodgey spots with it. While I had it it never once false alarmed either.

Though at around 800 notes it was pricey

blastman

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Not a big fan of them, although my 205 GTi had an awesome immobiliser that you had to insert a USB style chip to get it started. And my two cars currently are currently missing batteries so they aren't moving anywhere in a hurry :pac:

You might think so, but if someone wants them badly enough, they'll move...

MugMugs

Have one and didn't realise it until I left a dog in the car one day. Never leave anything in the car and I'm impartial about having one. If they want the car then they'll have it. I turn the tv up when I hear car alarms....