I saw a write-up somewhere, where you can add a shock sensor to your stock alarm..does anyone know how to do this or have access to the write-up etc. thanks in advance..
-Brian

 

definitly do a search for this one.... Ive seen this come up alot in the past.

Ant

 

someone here installed it near the battery. they hooked it up to the hood pin switch. sounds easy enough.

 

http://www.rcreations.com/public/CoD...e,0t,P=27.html

VQpower.com has another one, but they're moving right now

 

Just hook it up to ANY door/hood/trunk trigger.

 

Don't do it it the doors...because if you do when you go over a bump the interior light will flash on. The you might think that your car is haunted. Tap the hood pin switch and put the sensor on you stearing column.

The wire is yellow with a red tracer and is located on pin 27 on the SECU (Smart Entrance Control Unit) located on the passanger side of the steering column.

I would go with a dual unit (shock & glass breakage) for maximum coverage.

Hope this helps.

 

I've never liked the idea of monkeying with an alarm system. Better to rely on the key chip, maybe just maybe LoJack is ok, not sure. If somebody wants the vehicle, they will take it, plain and simple. This dude in my office got a custom alarm on his Trail Blazer--2 wiring harnesses burned up and he's ended up with a rental car for 6 weeks at $35/day. They still have not been able to find the problem, the dealer says there's nothing they can do. So now it sits at the shop where the alarm was installed. He's $1500 into the rental car alone, you don't want to know how much those wiring harnesses retail for, let alone the labor charges to remove the dash. my .02

 

How sensitive is the shock sensor that the guy used on the website above[rcreations.com]. The 10 dollar sensor, what will cause the alarm to trip with this one? Bumping into the car?, glass breaking? Something hitting the car?......

-Nick

 

Don't know, but I bought a dual stage shock sensor from eBay and I plan on using that. Maybe if I can do this correctly, then I'll add in a glass shock sensor to it later. It'll be temporary until I can afford a nice alarm system in a year or two.

You can adjust the sensitivity of it. It has a little screw on the sensor.

Read the rcreations one and the vqpower one (once it's back online) and you'll know what to do. The rcreations one is right by the hood switch, but the vqpower one is connected to the BCM inside the dash (where the hood switch wires are plugged in). If you want the vqpower one, I have it saved in a Word file for easy printing, I can email it to you since they're down right now.

I'll try it out this week when I'm not lazy