[GregS[_3_]]

In article , ChrisB wrote:
ruens wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:22:17 -0500, ChrisB
wrote:

(...)

No ****. One of my police officer friends told me how sophisticated the
thieves were regarding the LS1 thefts in the state. He then went on to
tell me how the thieves have tow trucks in the New Orleans area, and
seem as though they are towing vehicles for legitimate reasons.
Uniforms, papers, you name it.

Although I can't stop someone from stealing my car, I want to make the
******* work to take mine! I already have a super stealth car alarm
install planned where the brain won't be where a thief would expect it
to be (unless he feels like disassembling the interior of the car) and I
am thinking of going with a non-traditional method to prevent the
vehicle from running, in addition to the starter interrupt! The only
downside to this is I easily see my install taking close to 16 hours due
to the re-routing of the wires and the not so standard location of the
brain. No shop around here would take on that monumental task, plus it
wouldn't be worth the labor they would charge anyhow!

In addition to hiding the brain, you should consider a backup battery
and a few backup sirens. A hidden alarm brain alone is useless if the
battery wire is cut or removed.

Oh, I am definitely going with a battery backup! Every alarm I ever
installed had one, so this will be no exception.

I am also going to use a couple of pain generators inside the cabin, as
Matt suggested! That delayed trigger is also a good idea.

Of all the ironies, a friend of mine who works as an installer at Best
Buy has been telling me what I should do! He said that they, Best Buy,
don't do starter disables because they were forced to pay too many tow
charges, yet he told me that I need to disrupt the starter AND something
else (fuel pump and/or ECU) because the starter disable would not stop a
thief from push starting my car! I just find it ironic that he is
making suggestions of how to protect my vehicle yet he doesn't install
those protection features as a "professional" installer.

I would not ever disable the starter. It gives the thief
something to do. Creates a larger noise and time delay. Just disable the fuel
or ignition.

greg