Wow I sure am lucky. This morning at 4:00 A.M., I wake up to loud honking and look out the window to see my 89 Max is honking and flashing its lights. I think what the he11 is going on, I don't have an alarm, why is my car honking? I go outside to try and shut it off and find the drivers side window broken in, glass everywhere. Luckily my stereo was still in the car, along with my CD's. Turns out the alarm system I didn't know I even had saved my stereo. Thank god for Nissan engineering. Anyway, the moral of the story is REMOVE YOUR FACEPLATES AT NIGHT!!! People suck.

 

Same happened to me about a year ago. Passenger side window busted in, but the alarm was attacting too much attention, so the would be thief left. I was out $75 :-(, but that's cheap compared to replacing the stereo.

 

Damn, the same thing happened to me about 3 months ago and the time was around 3:46am. Luckily I was still up and on my computer, when I heard the alarm and rushed downstairs to find no one.

They broke the driver's rear vent window (where the 4DSC sticker is).

I hope insurance treats you well. Good luck.

 

that's cheap compared to most ways people have gotten into my cars..

first time on my old mitsu truck they took a big screwdriver to my driver's door lock and just pried it out of the door. cost me $100 for a new lock (had to have ignition and the other door re-keyed also), and I did the bodywork myself.. $80 for a new door skin and $50 for paint.. about 10 hours in the garage.
that was the morning before I was supposed to have my alarm installed. they took over $4000 worth of equipment.

next time they took out the rear window. $300 for new glass and tint. they didn't steal anything as the alarm went off, but the window was all over the street and in my truck. (it was also snowing at the time.)

about 6 months later, I was out of town for a week and when I came back, someone had busted out ALL of my windows and poured paint stripper all over one side of the truck. my sister was home with my stepmom the whole week and neither one of them bothered to call the cops, and my truck sat like that for 4 days.

after that I'd had enough.. found out who did it and went over there with a few friends.. (I knew already, but my dad wouldn't let me out of the house because he knew what I'd do to the kid)... but after the stripper thing, he'd had enough too and just said "I don't know a thing. you left with some friends for the evening....")
let's just say the kid spent the next 2 weeks in the hospital and moved to Arizona the day he got out.

 

Aiight!!! That's what I'm talkin about. I told my mom that if I ever catched the person responsible, not to get worried if I didn't come home the next day. She threatened to disown me...

 

Well not that I condone violence of any sort.. but enough is enough! btw, I wasn't the only one this guy had messed with. several of my friends had been hit by this kid too.

 

what the hell is wrong with that kid.. does he have a disorder where he has to mess with automobiles?

 

I made sure he wasnt stealing anything for a while. I slamed the door on his hand about 5 times, I think its kinda hard to steal stereos with a cast on your hand. That ****es me off so much when you bust your *** to buy something then someone just takes it from you

 

Montero?



I hope you really laid it on them for that. Negligence like that are automatic grounds for forgetting Christmas and birthday presents.

How did you end up finding out? Sometimes violence is the only way, well done.

 

that alarm saved my car....these kids busted into it one night and i heard it going off and ran over...they took off. so when i called the cops because my faceplate i thought was gone (it was on the ground a good distance away) the dumb kids came BACK and walked by my car just as the cop was getting a description of the kids over his radio..what idiots! i gave them a word or two about messing with my car...couldn't do much else with a cop standing there and plus i'm just a girl

 

heheh since you're a girl, I'd bet you could have beat the crap out of them and the cop would have just stood there and watched.

 

With faceplate removed, everything hidden, and factory and viper alarm with motion sensors, car was still broken into at repair shop. REMOVE ALL OF THE STUFF YOU CONSIDER VALUABLE from your car while leaving the car for any extended period of time. Even though this was a rural area, and not too much crime. My car and another were hit that night. They stole all of my tools, 200+ CD's, my radar/laser detector, two (2) pairs of sunglasses, gym bag with CD's, clothes, shoes, all my receipts of the automotive history of the car (even the purchase of sale). Not to mention all of my stereo eqipment: 10" Bazooka tube, Sony headunit & 10 disc changer and amp. Anyway, that sh@# ****ed me off , and it had to have been an inside job... because how else could you explain hearing the alarm go off for hours?

 

I didn't know I had an alarm for about 5 months after I bought my 89 SE. Then one day I locked the doors with my girlfriend inside. She lifted the lock to let me in and the horn and lights go crazy. Coool! I have an alarm, always wondered what that security light was for. Does it go off with broken windows or only when the door is opened? How about the trunk. I see a pin switch, but how does it work, if at all??

 

It won't go off just because the window was broken. I could walk around my car and smash all the windows and still hear silence. You have to lock it from the outside, then try and unlock it from the inside. Nobody wants to crawl through a car window, so they pulled the lock up (big mistake). The trunk goes off it's forced up I think. And if the hood is opened from the outside it goes off too...I think. I know it goes off from the lock things (I've set it off on accident before), not sure about the others. Pretty sure, though.

 

Everyone that was saved by stock alarms, you all got lucky, and I would highly suggest buying an aftermarket alarm. With the stock one all they have to do it put ANY key into the keyhole, or disable the horn by removing the fuse.. but it's definetely better than what most people have: Nothing! Matt, 4k in equipment? That sucks bad man! I thought I had it bad when people stole my $2,000+ stereo system out of my Volvo..

 

Boy the good life is a 2-car garage huh?

 

I have a garage, but neither of my cars fit.

Stupid old house.

 

those damn kids breaking into my car was the best thing that ever happened to my car...i got to replace the stock radio in my car that i was going to replace anyway when i bought the car from my parents (it wasn't mine then, i was just driving it that night). got a brand new nice *** cd player...for nothing. so good came out of that one.

just hearing about crsmax's deal makes me cringe.

hey, i could have TRIED to beat those kids up for breaking into my car, but i don't have much to me so they probably just would have stood there and laugh in my face.

 

How the alarm works is basically it goes off whenever you open the doors, hood, or trunk without disarming it first.

It's disarmed by putting a key into the trunk or door locks and TURNING it. Not just any key will work, unless you somehow bust the lock and get it to turn (even then, I think I read the locks themselves have tampering detection built-in to prevent this).

IMO, the stock alarm works just the same as most cheap aftermarket alarms wired to the doors, etc, EXECPT there's no shock sensor or remote control. I think Ngthing has tried adding a shock sensor on to the OE alarm (not inconceivable) but I don't know how it turned out, if at all.

 

Yeah the lack of the shock sensor is the main reason I'm goin with an aftermarket alarm, also remote start is dope, but the shock sensor will protect my rims further because if they try to busy my lug locks it'll set it off.. I guess they still can still my rims, but it'll be a bigass ***** to do lol