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What are they like??

do you use the remote start/turbo timer set up??

How good is the pager system...??

rate out of ten....???

I'm thinking of installing one of these system's next year...... just need some opinions from people that have the system.... or others that have similer or better system's for the same price....

Thanks

Lawrence

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I'm getting a Hornet system installed in Jan... Remote start, keyless entry, turbo timer, LCD Pager, 3 point immobolioser, shock sensor, proximity sensor.... all that stuff... so i don't know how it compares to the boomerang but i've used hornet before and it's all good.

Retail (from memory) is about $1k + extras for remote start, drivers door motor etc... but i never pay retail where i get my stereo gear etc... so I'm paying les... :(

I have a boomerang in mine and its a piece of cr#p. But it just might not be hooked up properly, not sure. Doesnt turbo time properly (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesnt), and it takes it upon itself to occasionally remote start without me telling it to. For example I was filling up with petrol when the car just suddenly started, and another time was about to take intake piping off and just before I stuck my hand into the engine bay, it started.

I think for the money theres better out there.

Yeah Boomerang is a POS. I have one too (came with the car) and the main remote is totally stuffed (worn out due to use/old age). I'm currently using the backup remote so I don't get the paging function.

Jetspeed wants $180 for a new remote! This is like almost as much as a whole new different brand alarm with similar features. I am thinking of getting another cheapie alarm from Ebay like the Mannix or Giordan and then also hooking in a phone paging function or getting an expensive tracker.

Also I have problems with the main Boomerang unit like Amaru does. Sometimes the alarm goes off for no reason due to one of the shock sensors, but this isn't an over-sensitive thing. There is absolutely NO shock at all and it'll sometimes go off. Only once every few weeks or months, but still annoying. It has a pretty reasonable sensitivity to real shocks, ie a buzzbox exhaust won't set it off but kicking a wheel will, so this is how I know it's not an over-sensitive thing just a fault.

It also doesn't respond very well to either the main remote or backup remote. I don't think it's a signal strength thing, because I can be right next to the car or 50 metres away and it'll still usually take several keypresses to arm or disarm. The backup remote is worse than the primary one.

I don't know why they don't supply 2 main remotes with it, all the cheap ones come with 2 main remotes rather than one main one with all functions and one dodgy backup one with only 3 functions.

I think they are $1000 or so new, but I don't think they're worth the price of the remote ($180).

If you're going to spend $1k, I would get a tracker or even just a phone pager thing along with a cheap alarm. 100 immobilisers aren't going to stop your car getting towed. Even with the alarm blaring no one's going to look twice! I had to get my car towed recently (long story, simple problem) and the alarm kept going off because I accidentally armed it and it would auto re-arm when I clicked it off because I hadn't opened the door. The tow truck guy said don't worry they all do it because of the motion sensors and no one ever looks twice.

Brant also want like $150 for automatic power window winders. Sure Brant may be the best alarm/immobiliser you can get, but unless you're made of money the $1000 can be better spent on security.

actually brant are releasing a tracking model soon, i think going to be along the price of 1.5k for it. Good to see more tracking units out there as more competetion is better for the consumer.

I'm not too fussed on a tracker as i dont live in sydney like you JimX :( but i dont park anywhere dodgy either

$1500 for the job lot from Brant would be a much better deal, because Quiktrak is like $1200. So you'd be getting the Nemesis for only $300, and this is something I would definitely consider. Got any links for prices? I rang up Brant a few weeks ago and the guy was a bit short with me. Didn't really seem too interested in my business, probably because they are so popular and inundated with orders.

i dont think its the nemesis + the tracking for that price. It could be just the tracking or maybe with the cheaper brant alarm, im not sure. On the brant website it just says watch this space.

So i dont know a great deal of info, but the guy who installed my brant alarm a month or so ago told me about it briefly.

They are still setting up the network and its not fully functional so i guess we will find out soon.

I don't have a spare $2500 lying around.

The bottom line is where do you stop???

People recommend Brant but there's heaps of bad stories about them either (not as bad as Boomerang) but they're not as bulletproof as people make them out to be.

If you're on a budget, the SMS phone messager would be the go.

T.

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