[navylife59]

You just helped out any thieves who might know your car. Car alarms mean nothing if you ain't there to protect the car. A thief doesn't care if the alarm goes off because you just showed them how easy it is to disarm it. One trick is to set it off multiple times a night so that you will think it is malfunction and shut it off. They can use porcelin chips to crack your glass to pieces without making much of a sound. Your windows are probably tinted so that will completely muffle the sound for your glass-breakage detector. It only takes a few seconds to pop off that plastic panel and rip all the wiring out. If the alarm is a self-contained unit under the hood, no worries. The crook(s) will just pop the hood and easily destroy that unit. Ok, so you may have a secondary, self-contained backup siren, no worries. These guys wil just smash and grab all they can and be gone before you know it. You can't protect your call all of the time and they know this. They will hit you when your not looking. They don't care about the public because the public most likely do anything but watch. If they do have a little courage, they will just leave your car with a reminder of their visit and run off.

I tell you this to warn you. It comes from actual experience in the car alarm business back in the 1990's and yes, I too have been a victim. There is an entire book on how thieves can circumvent your security systems. All you can do is try to buy time till you or someone else can stop them. The mosre secure and secretive your installation, the longer it will stop them. Telling them what alarm you have helps them to defeat it better. Showing them where your components are at and how poorly the install is (wiring easily identified) just makes it so much easier. I won't go into the details of how easy it would be to pop your hood without setting the alarm off or how easy it would be to disable your secondary alarm and factory horns.

You need to change your install and don't let anyone know what you got. Even friends could be bragging about your ride and tip some unscrupulous person off without knowing it. You worked hard for your ride. Don't just give it away. If you would like some tips, I can PM them to you. You should also go ask for the your money back on the install because it looked pretty crappy.