The car manufacturers don't seem to bother with alarms these days.

I made do with warning stickers on my previous car,as aftermarket alarms when fitted soon drained the car battery,so I removed them after some months.

 

Anyone here fitted an aftermarket alarm that is any use.......in the hope that not eveyone would ignore an alarm going off??   Will probably make do with a cheap interior motion detection camera inside the car......

37 minutes ago, Blackcountryman said:

The car manufacturers don't seem to bother with alarms these days.

Strange, every car I’ve had over the last 10-15 years has had a factory fitted alarm system.

14 hours ago, Kenny R said:

Strange, every car I’ve had over the last 10-15 years has had a factory fitted alarm system.

With one exception (a Citroen C1) every car I've bought since 1999 has had a standard factory fit alarm.

Strange ???   Car under £18,000 = no alarm.   Vauxhall Corsa,previous car no alarm . Car before that Vauxhall Astra ,no alarm.

 

What I was looking for was an after fit that is any good,so far no answers in that department......

18 hours ago, Kenny R said:

Strange, every car I’ve had over the last 10-15 years has had a factory fitted alarm system.

 

Indeed - that last car I purchased that didn't have an alarm was a Mitsubishi Colt in 1991...   everything else, regardless of price paid, has had a factory fit alarm and immobiliser...

9 minutes ago, skomaz said:

 

Indeed - that last car I purchased that didn't have an alarm was a Mitsubishi Colt in 1991...   everything else, regardless of price paid, has had a factory fit alarm and immobiliser...

 

Come on! It was a Mitsubishi Colt which means that no one wants to steal it, so the alarm was an unnecessary expense. If you'd left the doors open passing strangers would take pity and drop £1 coins in the footwell 

Alarms, car or house, are nearly pointless these days as laws have reduced how loud they can be so they are not a noise nuisance. I have often set the alarm off on my car when cleaning it and it's pathetic. We had an alarm and immobiliser fitted to our old Shogun. the fitter showed me it working and that wasn't very loud either. When I commented he showed me how to make it louder but couldn't do it himself.

Acoustic Alarms are mostly a waste of time and damn nuisance.

 

Nobody reacts, people ignore them, don't want to get or risk getting involved. They are an annoyance as 98% of alarm are false, so making people even more inclined to ignore.

 

Acoustically loud and shrill, piercing alarms should be banned and/or subject to an on the spot fine.

 

Who wants to steal a Skoda anyway? The BMW, Audi or Mercedes next door is so much more tempting....

Most likely with a Citigo is the young toerags in the know will stick something sharp through the plastic fuel tank and steal the petrol for their Moped / Scooters / Quads.

No alarm will be going off.

As to the alarm going off as someone breaks into the car then legs it or rides off on what ever, then that is all the happens, they get in the car and an alarm has sounded.

On ‎04‎/‎03‎/‎2019 at 13:48, CWARD said:

 

Come on! It was a Mitsubishi Colt which means that no one wants to steal it, so the alarm was an unnecessary expense. If you'd left the doors open passing strangers would take pity and drop £1 coins in the footwell 

 

Oy!!

 

It was a 1.5 12v GLX in twightlight blue with alloys, a sunroof, wind deflectors and an uprated stereo - it actually looked quite smart and was a quality car for the young lad that I was at that time - I did about 115,000 miles in it and it was the envy of my mates!

 

A bit like this but with BBS type cross spoke wheels...

 

 

 

 

 

 

On ‎04‎/‎03‎/‎2019 at 14:06, xman said:

Who wants to steal a Skoda anyway? The BMW, Audi or Mercedes next door is so much more tempting....

 

Exactly - always park next to someone else's' prestige' car...

Pics from the VW Golf R thread.

 

Maybe they pinched the Alarm as well.