Car Security

[Bumpin03 10+ year member]

OK, I don't know anything at all about car alarms at all. All I know is that they beep when someone touches your car //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif . haha. Well I just got my new system and I live in kind of a bad area for theft. I know a lot of people in my school that break into peoples cars that they know have nice stuff and steal it. So I'm in the market for a car alarm. But heres the problem...I am only going to have this car for about another 5 months, then im getting a new one. If I bought my alarm at best buy and had them install it, is it easy to uninstall and then install again into a new car??? Or should i just buy a really cheap one now and keep it in this car and when i get a new car get a nicer one??? I need suggestions...thanks.

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[taylor 10+ year member]

yes it's easy to uninstall, cost me 25.00 to uninstall my alarm off my old car

 

[Bumpin03 10+ year member]

well obviously im going to the wrong place...because best buy just said they would charge me $110 for the alarm (Cheapest one there) another $100 for installation and another $100 for them to take it out....RIP OFF!!!

 

[fantomas 10+ year member]

if you are feeling up to it, buy a $60 alarm from jcw and install it yourself. it should come with detailed instructions. or have a friend who knows what hes doing help you install it.

 

[darkimportgrey 10+ year member]

dude, i work at best buy... where do you live? the price of install should be included in the price of an alarm, and they SHOULD be taking it back out for FREE. If you could tell me where you live, and the address of that store, i would really like to have a chat with their installation supervisor. You can get a nice car alarm with keyless entry for like 200 installed.

 

[taylor 10+ year member]

well put darkimportguy....

 

[taylor 10+ year member]

i mean grey, not guy

 

[Bumpin03 10+ year member]

Best Buy in Carousel Mall in Syracuse, New York

they aren't taht hard to install??? you think I could do it myself??? I don't want a remote car start or anything fancy like that....but if i could install and uninstall myself..i might go with one of those LCD pager ones for around $175 on ebay. Or if anybody else has any other suggestions...

 

[fantomas 10+ year member]

some alarms install with only 1 or 2 wires...those are very simple. i actually havent installed one yet, but ive been looking around for one and it seems like a big project if you arent really into car electronics and trying to read chilton schematics. It all depends on what you want in an alarm. most cheap ones will only take 10-20 minutes (depending). you might even learn something about your car if you do it yourself