Car alarm question

[QueBert]

I got a Viper 5904 installed on my car yesterday, I brought up the voice module that says "viper armed" and warns a person when they touch the car and it's armed. He said "those haven't been legal for 9 years" I looked them up online saw tons. I can't find any specific info on CA, I know we have some weird ass laws here, so maybe he was right. Is there some reason I can't get this installed?

On a related note THANK YOU VIPER for making the charging port on the FOB Mini Usb! Now I can keep an extra cable around for this one damn device.

 

[rommelrommel]

Dunno about CA, they're legal here (although pointless, people will touch just out of spite.)

 

[HeXen]

Bold thieves won't care. Usually it takes only seconds to steal what their after.

 

[SpatiallyAware]

That viper armed crap is only going to annoy people.

Personally I don't like any of the arm disarm beeping. Just a flashing red light is fine for me.

 

[QueBert]

I wasn't going to get it installed, I was just curious about how often people do get them. And now I'm curious why in CA they're not legal. I gotta think he was telling me the truth because otherwise he'd be selling them.

I have question, my alarm has 4 aux channels you can add sensors to control. It already does trunk/hood/remote start, AC/heater & defrost. I came up with windows up/down, turning stereo on & sunroof/top for other things it can do. My top's manual so no dice there, after the windows & my stereo what else could I add for the other 2 aux's?

 

[phucheneh]

Door switches, trunk, hood, call it a day. Modern cars are not exactly easy to steal; you're basically just guarding aginst break-ins. And even then, unless you're around to hear the siren, and haven't been conditioned to ignore them, a thief will have plenty of time to grab whatever might be in there.

More importantly, what I would not do- level sensor, occupant sensors (infared, sonar, whatever they use), glass breakage sensors, ect. The more elaborate stuff can be effective in factory systems, but the aftermarket stuff typically seems unable to straddle a line between ineffective and highly oversensitive.

 

[QueBert]

I have a question, my alarm has temperature sensing for the inside of your car. I knew it wasn't accurate so I went to the car shop that installed it, showed them and it read 118. It was maybe 80 outside and I had just pulled up so it wasn't anywhere close to 118 inside my car. He tested one of the cars on the lot that has the same alarm and it came up 93. He was stumped and claimed there's no stand alone sensor it's built into the brain. All he could could come up with is it might have something to do with my car being a convertible. This makes no sense to me, my top was also up when we did the test. I just checked it again and it's coming up 149, it's pretty warm outside but no way is it 149 in my car lol.

This is a long shot, but maybe someone here has an idea what's going on here?

 

[T2urtle]

On a related note THANK YOU VIPER for making the charging port on the FOB Mini Usb! Now I can keep an extra cable around for this one damn device.

better then the older unit that requires those CR quarter sized battery and a battery life of about 3-4 weeks.

With that cable, i would just leave one at the work desk and charge it at work.

 

[phucheneh]

I have a question, my alarm has temperature sensing for the inside of your car. I knew it wasn't accurate so I went to the car shop that installed it, showed them and it read 118. It was maybe 80 outside and I had just pulled up so it wasn't anywhere close to 118 inside my car. He tested one of the cars on the lot that has the same alarm and it came up 93. He was stumped and claimed there's no stand alone sensor it's built into the brain. All he could could come up with is it might have something to do with my car being a convertible. This makes no sense to me, my top was also up when we did the test. I just checked it again and it's coming up 149, it's pretty warm outside but no way is it 149 in my car lol.

This is a long shot, but maybe someone here has an idea what's going on here?

There's no air flowing over the sensor. If it's in the alarm module, it's going to get stuffy, I'd think.

I've dealt with complaints about ambient air temp sensors for the same reason...they're often not even remotely accurate until you start the car and get some air moving past them.