I read a thread posted by supercharged about his alarm. I thought it a good read. It was buried in with comments about the movie maximum overdrive. I wanted to post a comment about the alarm I installed in my mustang. It's one of those type that alerts a pager when the car is tampered with. I installed it about six years ago, and never hooked up the siren that goes with it. I opted instead to go with a totally silent unit, with the person breaking into the car never knowing that I'd been alerted to the fact. I felt that by the time the police arrived that the deed would be finished, my reaction time would be much faster, and I'd prevent any theft of my vehicle or stereo system. It totally pissed my wife off because she felt I was more inclined to shoot the person I caught rather than call the authorities. She was probobly right in her thinking, but nobody has ever tried to break into it, or steal it for that matter. So the theory remains untested. I like the factory vehicle alarm system and immobilizer that's installed on my Xterra. Ford didn't have such a thing back in the mid 90's.

I've never heard of such a thing. That's awesome.
If I were to install something like that I'd rather I be alerted first so I could at least get there and call the authorities on the way to have them coming.

Just don't disable the neutral safety switch.... I've learned from personal experience :) *still sore from last weeks little accident*

Hey there Matt Sr,

I was just maybe wondering where I could maybe find this mustang? Just wondering, I wouldn't want to maybe steal it or something maybe:auslachen2-big:
Thats sounds like a cool alarm though. Since the alarm is quiet do I have to be quiet when you're beating the bejeezus daylights out of me for trying to scam your car or can I scream like a little school girl when your wife points the gun at me?:auslachen2-big:

Just Kidding :rofl-big:

I read a thread posted by supercharged about his alarm. I thought it a good read. It was buried in with comments about the movie maximum overdrive. I wanted to post a comment about the alarm I installed in my mustang. It's one of those type that alerts a pager when the car is tampered with. I installed it about six years ago, and never hooked up the siren that goes with it. I opted instead to go with a totally silent unit, with the person breaking into the car never knowing that I'd been alerted to the fact. I felt that by the time the police arrived that the deed would be finished, my reaction time would be much faster, and I'd prevent any theft of my vehicle or stereo system. It totally pissed my wife off because she felt I was more inclined to shoot the person I caught rather than call the authorities. She was probobly right in her thinking, but nobody has ever tried to break into it, or steal it for that matter. So the theory remains untested. I like the factory vehicle alarm system and immobilizer that's installed on my Xterra. Ford didn't have such a thing back in the mid 90's.


Yea it has that pager thing,,,,it has a LCD outline of a car, and when you use
the remote starter, smoke comes out the end, the only other thing I have ever seen it do is play jingle bells when I change the battery

Guys hey, I'm a copier repairman, not a postal worker. In the ten years I've owned my stang, nobodys touched it. The alarm pager sits in my dresser with no battery in it. The factory alarm will do just fine, that one sounds the cars horn. This's the latest bumper sticker that's made it's way onto the Xterra. People give me the strangest looks as they go by me on the interstate. I've got "Peace through Superior Firepower" and "Nuke their Ass and Take their Gas" on order. They should be on my bumper by mid week.

Guys hey, I'm a copier repairman, not a postal worker. In the ten years I've owned my stang, nobodys touched it. The alarm pager sits in my dresser with no battery in it. The factory alarm will do just fine, that one sounds the cars horn. This's the latest bumper sticker that's made it's way onto the Xterra. People give me the strangest looks as they go by me on the interstate. I've got "Peace through Superior Firepower" and "Nuke their Ass and Take their Gas" on order. They should be on my bumper by mid week.

George? Dubya? is that you?

*breaks into a chorus of all hail the chief*

Hmmmmmm posing as a copier repairman, I think I see a pattern here
Our imagistics repairman is kinda scary....he told me he is gonna "fix" the next person who unplugs his unit(improper shutdown) and takes out the hard drive.
And the color copier that shuts down after only making a few copies of $20 bills, he wont even talk about, exept that he says the operator code # has been forwarded to the proper authorities???????????

All copiers made now are digital, they also have computer style hard drives for data and image storage. You're suppose to power off the machines in a two step process. First you press the Power On-Off switch on the op. panel (soft), then second you flip the Main power switch on the side of the machine (Hard). Soft means that power is still supplied to the internals, hard means all power is off. If you kill the machine by just turning off the main power, that's suppose to be bad, though it's the way I do it (if I even turn the thing off to work on it). It's rumored that you can blow the HDD, though after working on a few thousand of them, I have yet to see it happen. It's one for mythbusters.

All copiers made now are digital, they also have computer style hard drives for data and image storage. You're suppose to power off the machines in a two step process. First you press the Power On-Off switch on the op. panel (soft), then second you flip the Main power switch on the side of the machine (Hard). Soft means that power is still supplied to the internals, hard means all power is off. If you kill the machine by just turning off the main power, that's suppose to be bad, though it's the way I do it (if I even turn the thing off to work on it). It's rumored that you can blow the HDD, though after working on a few thousand of them, I have yet to see it happen. It's one for mythbusters.

I kinda expected to get a rise out of you on the GW thing.....:biggrin:

You'd all think we'd have better things to do than hover around our computer on a nice hot sunny day like this. I don't mind the GW thing, I'm a big "W" supporter. I think it was you and I that went round and round about oil prices. I'm about as far right as you get. I'm a big believer in gun rights and a free market economy. Every several months I rotate bumper stickers along those lines on my work vehicle, which is the Xterra. Here in MN, where in the 1984 elections MN was the only state that Pres. Regan lost, stickers like mine really piss some people off. I've been followed and verbaly accousted. I just smile and wave.

I'm sure you've got your share of people un-interested in what you've got to say up in MN... my family is all from Minneapolis/St Paul and surrounding areas and they're as liberal as they come :)