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Do you have a car alarm?

Do you have a car alarm?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 48.0%

  • No

    Votes: 11 44.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 2 8.0%
  • Total voters
    25
John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
I live in a relatively small town, pop. 50,000 or so. We have pretty much everything a town needs. Two McDonalds, a Burger King, two Taco Bells, two outlet malls, Best Buy, Macy's, restaurants, and what seems like nothing but liquor stores, banks and pawn shops. Just to give you a flavor. But I seldom hear car alarms in this relatively small town. It seems like at least a year has gone by since I have heard one of those loud, annoying car alarms. But now today I have heard two. One at the store and now one around the block. Weird how you don't hear the damn things for so long and all of a sudden you hear two.

I wouldn't have a car alarm myself unless it was a high end car or a Honda. In which case I would use these two combined. LOL





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That's like going for years without seeing an ex-girlfriend, then in the course of a couple days you run into three of them.

Yes, I have a car alarm, and I use it. Has it kept my car from being stolen? I wouldn't know, but I do know that it's never been stolen.
 
Carson Dyle said:
That's like going for years without seeing an ex-girlfriend, then in the course of a couple days you run into three of them.

Yes, I have a car alarm, and I use it. Has it kept my car from being stolen? I wouldn't know, but I do know that it's never been stolen.
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Once upon a time in this town you would run into a teacher or coworker at the store. Not so anymore.
 
Carson Dyle said:
Umm. The population of Loveland is now more than 70,000.
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Who said I was in Loveland? Tee Hee.

Yeah, I guess it is, isn't it? Been a while since I checked the census. LOL!

No wonder why there's a street named Fleming.

Conrad O'Brien-ffrench – British MI6 Officer, Mountie for the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, artist, teacher and partial inspiration for Ian Fleming's literary character James Bond.
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I did go to school with Jeremy Bloom. The privious owner of this house was a school teacher and I guess knew his dad as a physiologist.
 
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John Connor said:
I live in a relatively small town, pop. 50,000 or so. We have pretty much everything a town needs. Two McDonalds, a Burger King, two Taco Bells, two outlet malls, Best Buy, Macy's, restaurants, and what seems like nothing but liquor stores, banks and pawn shops. Just to give you a flavor. But I seldom hear car alarms in this relatively small town. It seems like at least a year has gone by since I have heard one of those loud, annoying car alarms. But now today I have heard two. One at the store and now one around the block. Weird how you don't hear the damn things for so long and all of a sudden you hear two.

I wouldn't have a car alarm myself unless it was a high end car or a Honda. In which case I would use these two combined. LOL
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Hilarious! 😀
 
No, my car is a 2004, I don't keep anything valuable in it, not really a target. Though I sometimes think it would be nice to get a dash cam, and at that point I'd probably want an alarm too as it would become a target, even if it's a cheap one. The damage to the window to get inside would be what cost a lot.

Thieves here are lazy though, they just walk neighborhoods and check all the doors, if they're locked they move on. I forgot to lock my car doors once and got to my car and stuff like loose change and reciepts and other crap got shifted around. I try not to keep too much change in the car but tend to have a few bucks. Coffee money. 😛
 
Red Squirrel said:
I try not to keep too much change in the car but tend to have a few bucks. Coffee money. 😛
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Well since you have honest thieves you should leave like a briefcase full of fake 100 dollar bills. I guarantee that will bring some late night news worthy material.

Etch the VIN number into your windows and pros will say forgetaboutit and move on. Chop shops don't want that in their garage at all.
 
Red Squirrel said:
No, my car is a 2004, I don't keep anything valuable in it, not really a target. Though I sometimes think it would be nice to get a dash cam, and at that point I'd probably want an alarm too as it would become a target, even if it's a cheap one. The damage to the window to get inside would be what cost a lot.

Thieves here are lazy though, they just walk neighborhoods and check all the doors, if they're locked they move on. I forgot to lock my car doors once and got to my car and stuff like loose change and reciepts and other crap got shifted around. I try not to keep too much change in the car but tend to have a few bucks. Coffee money. 😛
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The last time my car was broken into the thieves left crap the stole from another car in mine..they didn't even take the change in my car....i can't remember the last time i have locked my car
 
My Subaru has the factory alarm. Doesn't seem susceptible to going off for no reason. It's kind of annoying in that if you lock it with the key fob, the alarm still goes off if you unlock the door with the key instead of the fob.
 
Not besides the factory alarm that I thought every modern car these days has. I always lock my doors when I leave the car, but I will leave it running at the gas station if I just go in to grab a coffee or something.
 
Are these things better tuned now, or are most people just not installing them?

I remember in the late-90s (?), they were the shit and every time a loud car rolled down the street, multiple alarms would go off.
 
yes, i had an alarm with all the bells and whistles including wireless sirens, backup batteries, non-standard install locations, immobilizer, etc.

all that didn't matter when the thieves wanted my stereo equipment - they broke into the car and the siren went off for days. They popped the hood and cut the battery to try to get the siren to stop.

Jacked all my shit anyway cuz I heard the alarm but was too sleepy to respond/didn't realize it was mine, and nobody else showed up either.
 
Sounds about right, when a car alarm goes off 99% of time it's a false alarm, at this point I don't think anyone even looks outside anymore.
 
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