car alarms · Aussieveedubbers

barls · 11 Jun 2005, 10:16 pm

ok shannons told me i need to put an alarm in chaos to get him insure for $12000. this got me thinking what make and model alarm most of you have in your vw and what you would recommend?

Bizarre · 11 Jun 2005, 10:22 pm

the Brandt $350 immobiliser one

This is the base one that complies with Shannons requirements.

They are just up at 5 dock shops, but doesnt matter. They come to you

barls · 11 Jun 2005, 10:27 pm

cool i was leaning towards them or black widow. the one you mentioned is the transponder version that they mention on their site

Bizarre · 11 Jun 2005, 10:30 pm

To be honest i lean towards spending as little as possible to get a good insurance company.

All the alarms are of an OK standard.

76camper · 12 Jun 2005, 9:08 am

I put an immobalizer in my bus along with central locking, Only really wanted the immobalizer so i could get keyless entry. The immobalizer cost me $50 off ebay.... there was plenty of more expensive ones on there. Do a search, www.ebay.com.au

Bizarre · 12 Jun 2005, 9:10 am

trouble is you need to get an "approved" one installed to qualify for Shannons :duh

barls · 12 Jun 2005, 10:00 am

yeah but they dont tell you all of their approved list only the top one

General_Failure · 12 Jun 2005, 2:54 pm

Are they in league with the alarm companies? Ah well, if your wheels are worth that much it's worth it.
My old van has a switch between the horn ant interior light. Guess that isn't a qualifying alarm. But I guess there aren't too many insurance companies that would go near a few hundred dollars worth of van.

barls · 12 Jun 2005, 3:08 pm

im currently looking at a value of about $12000 so he was going to have an alarm anyway.

akean1 · 12 Jun 2005, 4:49 pm

i will be going through "cyclops" for my next alarm system. they claim to have no false alarms, and a no theft history. they also do the alarms for army and police vehicles.

barls · 16 Jun 2005, 12:13 pm

anyone else?

Yogie · 16 Jun 2005, 3:07 pm

We needed to get an immobiliser as well to get insurance with Shannons. They didn't specify a brand but there was a list of specifications the immobiliser had to comply with. Biggest seemed to be all black wiring.

We got one put in from Strathfield Car Radio that cost us $169 supplied and installed. It is not an alarm though, just an immobiliser that self arms after 30 seconds.

Hope that helps

Yogie

Bizarre · 16 Jun 2005, 3:23 pm

Yogie wrote:We got one put in from Strathfield Car Radio

Yogie - did they come out or do you have to drop in??

Dasdubber · 17 Jun 2005, 8:29 am

Could be worthwhile checking out some details in this car audio forum which has the following "Alarms, GPS and Tracking" section:

http://caraudioaustralia.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=76

Yogie · 17 Jun 2005, 3:42 pm

Bizarre wrote:
Yogie wrote:We got one put in from Strathfield Car Radio
Yogie - did they come out or do you have to drop in??

We had to take it to them to get it fitted.

Yogie

barls · 19 Jun 2005, 10:22 pm

Yogie wrote:We got one put in from Strathfield Car Radio that cost us $169 supplied and installed.

sorry mate im never letting Strathfield touch one of my cars ever again after they stuffed my dash doing a stereo install.
thanks das now looking

BanoraBus · 19 Jun 2005, 11:57 pm

Mongoose immobilizer/alarm in our bus, approved alarms must be self arming no more than 30 seconds and all wires must be black from memory, can't remember the model number, the siren was just an add on to the immobilizer.

akean1 · 20 Jun 2005, 2:20 am

self arming sucks! usualy means locking yourself out of the car. not for me anyway. most alarms give you the option to self arm or not when installed

Yogie · 20 Jun 2005, 7:20 am

akean1 wrote:self arming sucks! usualy means locking yourself out of the car. not for me anyway. most alarms give you the option to self arm or not when installed

Not if it is just an immobiliser. You have to have central door locking added and make it an alarm for the locking to take place, otherwise it just immobilises automatically for you.

Yogie