I am thinking about getting an alarm for the FD. I have heard all the horror stories around town about the rare cars getting stolen and I would like something else to help deter thieves. Yes, I know that nothing is guaranteed to stop them, but things might help to deter them. The car is parked in a locked garage.

This is what I am looking at:
http://www.compustar.com/

I know DEI products rule the industry, but I think they are a bit overrated. This looks like a good product and gets decent reviews. I am also considering getting door lock actuators installed. I know its a PITA, but it will be worth it.

I also am considering buying the GPS unit for it. I am unsure if it has a Turbo timer, but that would be a nice feature. I do like that feature of the DEI products.

What do you guys think?

 

Same here im looking into buying an alarm, I've seen viper alarms and have heard good things about them so im looking into getting one...

 

Viper alarms like to go off when viper radars go by.

 

the one I have on mine is a clifford. I am not sure if the company even exists anymore i bought it about 6 yrs ago from Tweeter and it has a remote door locks kit with it, and a remote start. The remote start does double as a turbo timer it will stay running for 10 min and then shut off or you can manually shut it off with the remote at anytime. It was expensive almost $700 but worth it in my opinion. The last time I did go there they did have newer versions but i think it would at least be a place to consider looking into.

 

Yeah, they are still around. DEI purchased Clifford and about everything else besides Compustar. Did you put door lock actuators in?

Anyone with Compustar experience?

 

Any GPS trackers in Canada? Preferably in Toronto.

thewird

 

The ONLY alarm system to buy is a "Truck Monkey" alarm.

Google Trunk Monkey and check out the video of the alarm in action.

Super77

 

Truck Monkey ftw!!!!

 

Someone that owned my had the ebay alarm installed and even the ebay power locks. so I ripped it all out for a few extra rwhp.

 

i have a clifford alarm. it's a piece of crap so i don't use it. i actually want to remove it, but i'm too scared to do it myself.

 

I have no problems with mine i just had to play with the sensitivity when i first got it because everything set it off but once i did that it always seems to work great.

 

the stock alarm...

 

Cause that works great!



The Sig works great, but I don't want to move into the car.

 

I don't see how the stock alarm is gonna help if they tow the thing. I think I'm going to install Boomerang (Lojack in US).

thewird

 

i have a new viper alarm. it works really well. i got it with remote start even though i dont really use it. but what i like about it is that it has a proximity sensor on a swith. so if i have to leave my car outside for a night i can turn the sensor on. so if someone comes with in a couple of feet of my car it starts beeping. and my key chain also goes off and lets me know what is going on.

 

viper

 

YES...

but yea clifford is great, two way pager, most options are internal (no relays) and actuators are not that hard to put in, just have to make sure the window doesn't hit them mainly and that they can freely move the lock bars.. took me like 4 to 6 hrs start to finish, thats everything, i installed door lock actuators the alarm with a ton of features like dome light supervision, valet switch blah blah blah ya know the whole deal... by myself in a parking lot with just a pr of wire cutters and some tape.. not hard at all