Stereo & Electronics - Broken in to, Need a good alarm now

Alright, worst day I have had in a long long time. Had the car a work over night. I got there and some son-of-a-bitch mother f'er tore the inside of my car to piecies. Lost the head unit, amp, two 10's, farad cap, and both of my custom fiberglass enclosures that I made to fit under the trunk trim panels.

Now I have decided to invest in a good alarm system. Please send me in the right direction on selecting a top of the line alarm that will hopefully ward off a theif. Have used the seach button and noticed the viper 791 seemed to be the prefered among others here.

I dont want a cheap 25 dollar ebay peice. I wont something that will help keep this from happing again.
They spent some time to get my radio out. Had it bolted in to a bracket I made to try to keep it from being taken out.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i82/runinhot7/8e56abcd.jpg
This is where my custom fiberglass enclosure was sitting, along with my cap.There was also anonther fiberglass box in the other will well opening. The bastards took the boxes withe the speakers in them.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i82/runinhot7/72ded471.jpg
Heres the tint they f'd up pulling th stuff out from the front with the top still closed. How they actually did this puzzeled the hell out of me and the sheriffs officers.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i82/runinhot7/e78a1d2a.jpg

HOPE YOU BURN IN HELL

Viper is one of the best so i would go with that and get a pager with it so if someone even breathes on your car it pages you to tell you lol.

I'd go with a Viper Alarm.

The key fob pager notifies you in real-time if anythings going on with your car, and that feature alone is worth the price of admission ;)

Does anyone recomend a specific model of the Viper Alarm.

Sorry to hear about that. Keep us informed about what alarm your going with and how you like it.

http://www.drdetailshop.com/V5000.htm

im sure you can find it cheaper somewhere else but thats the one i would get.

I have seen a few models that have some type of small camera that you install inside of the car. When someone gets inside of your vehical it seed you a picture of whats happing strait to the LCD remote. Does anyone have one of these or heard much about them.

That sounds pretty interesting. Expensive, but interesting.

Just the sort of thread i was looking for. I had my laptop stolen from my bird recently, and from this point on my car will always be fully locked anywhere. I dont keep anything of value in it at this point, but now that i've chosen to put in a full flipup touchscreen nav unit, and accompanying system, i will certainly be paranoid. Honestly, if i could have it my way, my security system would administer a very high powered electric shock to anyone who so much as touched the motherfucker when armed. But in this day of courts ignoring stupidity and favoring giving the settlements to the people that refuse to take responsibility for their stupid actions, i dont see this security system happening.

If i recall correctly, arent there some systems that have an alarm on the inside of the car that blare so loudly when they sense a break-in, that it is completely intolerable to be inside the car or its vicinity?

With that in mind, i, too, am interested in knowing what model / brand of alarm system is most recommended for our car.

If i recall correctly, arent there some systems that have an alarm on the inside of the car that blare so loudly when they sense a break-in, that it is completely intolerable to be inside the car or its vicinity?

If anyone has or found what r00k is talking about please tell me where to find this at. This is one of the most interesting things I have heard yet.

A little googling and i have found sorta what i'm looking for. It seems they are Mini Piezo Siren's, or at Autotoys.com theyre called Piezo Siren Pain Generators :devil:

http://www.autotoys.com/x/cust/product.php?productid=1014&cat=443

http://www.aboutsecurityconcepts.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ALA-103

... I think this will be a welcome addition to the security system when i have it installed. Hehe, "Pain Generators". Something about it makes me giggle :devil: :shocked: :thefinger:

a alarm wont help next time when they put ur car on a tow bed and drive away

a alarm wont help next time when they put ur car on a tow bed and drive away

but that's no reason not to bother with one. i dont know statistics, but my guess is that most thieves don't have a tow truck at their disposal. The alarm system is a best-effort deterrant. It probably won't save your window, but probably will save you a lot bigger headache overall.

Does anyone recomend a specific model of the Viper Alarm.

vx791, doesn't get any better than that. :chug:

Thanks for all the input on the subject. I am deffinatly going to get the siren for inside of the car.
Wheres a good place to get the viper 791 from, I saw some on ebay for 200, but not to sure on those, and they didnt come with any other plugins.

Call some local shops. Ask them for an uninstalled price. I've seen 300-400 bucks. You should be able to buy it for under $300. Just use a search engine, one will come up.

i'm stupid at this whole car thing. my dad wants a remote start alarm for his birthday (told mom would help pick one out). so if i buy a viper alarm and take it to a local install place, can/will they install it? i think she's looking to spend around 500 - is it doable?

a alarm wont help next time when they put ur car on a tow bed and drive away

I agree.

An alarm doesn't really help anybody, if thieves want in, they will get in. Either by breaking a window, rear hatch glass or even windsheidl. How's an alarm gonna help that?

Leaving things (like a laptop, cell phone, CD case) are all ways for asking theives to break in and steal your shit. High value stereo systems are obvious targets and just asking to get stuff stolen. I've had high dollar shit stripped out of my cars before and honestly it's not worth it.

I weighed how much time I'm in the car vs. the value of the stuff to put in/cost of items vs. how much insurnace would pay out (if any and if I claimed how much premiums would go up).

Another thing would be to leave your vehicle in a garage at night (IF available) and not leaving vehicle at your home residence over night.

Do you really NEED the high dollar HU/Speakers/AMP in your car? Or is it a want? I know it's personal preference. IMHO use the $ for performance mod (those are LESS likely to be stolen!)

:soapbox:

one of the worst feelings in the world walking up to your rig and seeing its been bashed up like that. sorry dude.

i guarantee the fucking thieves knew that system was in there and were just waiting for the opportunity...

i still use my stock alarm, but if having a nice one will give you piece of mind its definitely not a waste.

i designed my system to be stealthy and not visable at all when the car is left in public. but even though you cant see that my car has a system in it and i always use a club, its still had 3 break-in attemps the past 2 years. but thats parking in downtown chicago parking garages, and i'm sure they were after the car itself and not just the stereo.

its just a sad fact assholes like to fuck with the nice cars people take pride in...

this is probably THE best thing i did to discourage theft:

http://pics.montypics.com/badhoopty/2004-12-07/1102479142_7998cloaked.jpg
http://pics.montypics.com/badhoopty/2004-12-07/1102479175_7998closed.jpg
http://pics.montypics.com/badhoopty/2004-12-09/1102649613_pb270301.jpg

WHERE DID YOU GET THAT, OR HOW DID YOU MAKE IT.
That is definitly one great idea.

i just made it from a stock monsoon.

take all the shit you need off the monsoon for the plate, glue it all together with hot glue or epoxy, then use the radio/hvac bezel as a template to scribe around the plate so when you cut it out it fits in there real clean and tight, then dremel the back flat. badda bing...

when i first started it i didnt know if it was gonna work. but it was very easy and maybe took an hour tops. since the pics have been taken one of the adjustment knobs has fallen off and dissapeared. i think it only adds to the realism of a pos stock monsoon.

This is the best guide ive found for how to avoid these situations... def worth a read.
http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=146326

If you want the best security system (not alarm) on the market- i'd look into getting a clifford advantgaurd 5 only downside is: the labor to install usually cost a few bucks MORE than the alarm :jest: Top of the line though !!!!

Won't stop a tow truck..... but will stop everything else........ oh yeah theres a tilt sensor included also

when i had my s-10 i had gotten broken into on three seperate occasions, all in public places (restaraunts, movie theater, etc.) The alarm helps if there are people around your car, because who is not going to look when it goes off, and even if they dont say anything, unless the thiefs are total retards, they will think twice about continuing, I actually caught two of the guys in the act, and when I began to run at them, they jumped in their cars, and drove off. I personally will be buying an aftermarket alarm, as long as you've got something loud that'll draw attention, i dont see how it wouldnt help you out.. but thats just me...

sorry to hear that man. really sucks. but, next time think about bolting down your subs ;)

Back to life thread! :-)

Just got back from one of the best Car A/V shops in my area and the owner is real big on Directed products. The brand names he was selling were Viper and CrimeStopper. He was telling me Viper was having allot of problems with the Pager systems... CrimeStoppers may be the way for me. Any one have a opinion on them vs Viper? Looks like its going to run my $500 to $700 ether way.

yea i got a python 990 its a remote start and a car alarm. i got one of those pain killer things in the center vent. the dude that works there has a T/A also and he has 3 of them in there and it was pretty damn loud. the range is a mile for the remote start and has the LCD screen. its gettin installed right now i cant wait for the call to go pick it up.

The Crime Stopper CS-2900DP-FM is looking really nice at $250 NIB! Looks very much like the Vipers new top model... but they warranty if YOU install and from what I hear are more reliable. :judge: and if you sell the car the new owner can transfer the warranty over to them.

this is probably THE best thing i did to discourage theft:

http://pics.montypics.com/badhoopty/2004-12-07/1102479142_7998cloaked.jpg
http://pics.montypics.com/badhoopty/2004-12-07/1102479175_7998closed.jpg
http://pics.montypics.com/badhoopty/2004-12-09/1102649613_pb270301.jpg

WTF? now that's interesting any more info on that?

WTF? now that's interesting any more info on that?

Post #21 ^

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showpost.php?p=6149312&postcount=21

Python 871. Remote start, keyless, alarm w/2 way fob for alerts.

vx791, doesn't get any better than that. :chug:
http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_1590.html

excellent tips!

-B

just out of sheer curiousity, has anybody tried lojack? with the stock alarm and lojack as the tow away alarm, it seems that would be a fairly good setup, or am i wrong?

has anyone got any good or bad stories on lojack by any chance, that's kinda the direction i was thinking of going.

im actually about to get one of the Viper ones installed in my car ..... they work REMARKABLE and they are just pretty much badass haha .... they look good and work good .... real sensative though but hey sometimes thats a good thing .