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Re: car alarms?

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Subject: Re: car alarms?
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:40:38 -0700
Why the heck bother? In my experience MGs are seemingly immune to 
"jockboxers", and they'd be impossible to unload to a fence if stolen. If 
you're worried about your stereo, you should have installed a pull-out. 
It would be a lot cheaper to just install a blinking LED, if you really 
want the deterrence factor. And to discourage joyriders, just install a 
battery cutoff switch, or more subtly, a fuel pump power switch. IMHO...

Garner, Joseph P. had this to say:

>Hi everyone,
>
>Do you guys have any hot tips on car alarms. I'm looking to fit one, and i
>was wondering about the following things:
>
>1. Best place to mount the alarm? Not necessarily under the hood i guess,
>but i can't think of anywhere else. with a 79B you don't have that
>convenient second empty battery compartment.
>2. Where to fit the dash LED. There's no way in hell i'm drilling a hole in
>my dash, or any other part of the car for that matter, for somethign that is
>entirely cosmetic. 
>3. Are there any features you guys consider essential? Shock, voltage and
>sound sensor obviously, but beyond that i was wondering about the usefulness
>of things like starter-disable in a car where it would be very easy to reach
>in, pop the hood, and circumvent the alarm anyway!
>4. any other advice that springs to mind
>
>Cheers
>
>Joe.
>
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>Department of Animal Science,
>University of California,
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>Davis,
>CA 95616
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>
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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.


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