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Dragzz

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morlock

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$1200  Fitted and you can get the best protection , a tracker .

Who cares how many points you have they can easily be bypassed by experts , at least with the tracker you can immobilise the car as soon as the move it and you know where it is at all times , unless underground .

Ummm surely the car would be immobilized when locked and left....how does immobilizing it again help if the thief has already bypassed it once?

Personally without an alarm and a hidden kill switch and a club lock I wouldn't even take my car out of the garage.

RB20LagWagon Proficient

RB20LagWagon

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Make sure it has 3 point immobiliser, black wiring, auto arming and is installed by a licenced professional, also make sure that it is australian approved, thats about all most insurers will require, alot of the wiz bang group buy/ebay alarms are not black wired not australian approved and their features would make them worthless as far as an insurance company would assume. I like autowatch alarms myself.

siksII Grand Master

siksII

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autowatch, brant, viper and mongoose are the only alarms that i'd ever have in my car. i had a warlock before and it was shit.

 

reliability, features, compliance to au/nz standards and actually PROTECTION from thieves are there in spades with the right alarm. a $100 jaycar job is a walk in the park to get around. i watched a guy do it at a place i used to work at and it was just too easy for him! (hifi store).

 

but as they say, an alarm is only as good as its installer. a stratties job may very well be fine, but they install it with hotmelt and wishful thinking, your better off leaving the keys in the ignition.

 

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a $100 jaycar would only be a walk in the park to get around if it was installed crap, just as a $1000 alarm would be a walk in the park to get around if it was installed the same way.

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djhatton

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siksII, good point well made!!! but the cheapie alarm that was installed in this guy's cordia was done very well. all soldered black wires w/heatshrink taped up in black eleccy tape to the original loom and cableties all over the place. the door solenoids were mounted on neat little brackets and the 2-point relays were completely hidden! most DIYers don't go to these efforts thats for sure!!! it was done right. the problem was that the cover for the alarm module just "popped" off and it was a piece of cake for this other installer from there (esp. considering there was screening on the board inside stating which "black and unmarked" wire was what!!! i'm willing to bet that most cheapies have their compromises. you get what you pay for in this world. show me a cheap alarm that doesn't have compromises and it will be without a doubt a bargain, but i don't know one that exists!

vehicle security is a pretty serious thing, esp considering our beloved cars are so high on most thieves' lists! why on earth would you spend $100 (or even 2-300) on security for your $20000+ beast???? that, to me anyway, isn't right.

still, IMO, above all else, security really comes down to common sense. i wouldn't park my car anywhere i didn't feel it was safe. and while schtickers (other than sau advertisments, of course :( ) down the leading edge of your door look cool, they're also shopping lists for potential anal warts like thieves and/or jealous people with less than honourable intentions.

/end rant :)

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pentae Mentor

pentae

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http://www.dynamco.com.au/cgi-bin/product_....cgi?model=P385

This alarm can be purchased on eBay for $195 (retails at $299)

Can anyone tell me whats wrong with it? Because it seems like a pretty good deal, and the remote doesnt look bad either.

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Silver'sR33

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This one looks pretty good to me...bah I can't tell the difference, I'm no professional but this Rhino seems to have all the listed things that everyone talks about and it's $189

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...me=STRK:MEWA:IT

Dunno if it fits insurance standards but my insurance (Suncorp) doesn't require me to have an alarm anyway, they never even asked me if I had one.

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