#1: Custom Alarm Author: EDP407, Location: Melksham, WiltshirePosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:45 pm ---- Recently I have seen and heard of a lot of scary break in cases with cars. I want to install an alarm to my 306 preferably a Clifford one. How the heck do I go about it? where do I take it too and how much is it going to set me back?
#2: Re: Custom Alarm Author: T_bandery, Location: East londonPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:50 pm ---- Ask you local auto electrician and if they give you the thumbs up then buy the Clifford alarm and take it to them for fitting
Ask you local auto electrician and if they give you the thumbs up then buy the Clifford alarm and take it to them for fitting
auto electrician where would I find him? at a small garage like place?
#4: Re: Custom Alarm Author: T_bandery, Location: East londonPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:02 pm ----
EDP407 wrote:
T_bandery wrote:
Ask you local auto electrician and if they give you the thumbs up then buy the Clifford alarm and take it to them for fitting
auto electrician where would I find him? at a small garage like place?
I am not sure about a small garage but have a look at yell.com and find the closest auto electrician, small garages may or maynot be able to do it... worth a try though
Ask you local auto electrician and if they give you the thumbs up then buy the Clifford alarm and take it to them for fitting
auto electrician where would I find him? at a small garage like place?
I am not sure about a small garage but have a look at yell.com and find the closest auto electrician, small garages may or maynot be able to do it... worth a try though
ok then, cheers for the help. their must be someone who does it in my area, let's hope its not too much!!
#6: Re: Custom Alarm Author: meady, Location: basingstokePosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:30 pm ---- when u buy one ask if they offer fiting, thts what i done with the cliford on my old 206
#7: Re: Custom Alarm Author: VorTechS, Location: Gloucestershire, UKPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:25 am ---- Do a lot of research first!
As I found out, there a lot of installers that do a 'quick' job but that do not necessarily leave your alarm in a 100% working order. And once they've installed it, get them to show you EVERY feature you've paid for.
I had the top Clifford package installed at the time, and I'm pretty sure I don't have the 'Tilt' function enabled/installed and they disconnected the factory sensors.
#8: Re: Custom Alarm Author: Addaz, Location: SuffolkPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:04 am ---- On what VorTech says, Toad
A personal friend of mine had one installed in his 4 year old subaru Impreza WRX STi at a rather high price, at is home by a genuine toad installer
Two days later, his daughters said, i didnt know you had the windows tinted. No it had burnt out on the inside from the wiring of the alarm
#9: Re: Custom Alarm Author: Howey, Location: Kings LynnPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:21 am ---- Yeah you have to be careful who fits them, their catagory accreditation depends on if the fitter is qualified to fit them not on the actual kit itself.
So a Cat 1 alarm wouldnt be "cat 1" if I fitted it for example
#10: Re: Custom Alarm Author: VorTechS, Location: Gloucestershire, UKPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:23 am ---- LOL Toad and Clifford are one and the same
The issue isn't the alarm, but the person that installed it. And I may have the tilt function, I just noticed that when the car was alarmed and on a ramp it didn't go off where I might have expected it to.
But as Howey says, it's all about who's fitting it.
#11: Re: Custom Alarm Author: Golfguy206, Location: PeterboroughPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:50 am ----
VorTechS wrote:
LOL Toad and Clifford are one and the same
The issue isn't the alarm, but the person that installed it. And I may have the tilt function, I just noticed that when the car was alarmed and on a ramp it didn't go off where I might have expected it to.
But as Howey says, it's all about who's fitting it.
Correct me if Im wrong, but Clifford is part of the Directed Electrics group =- Toad is not!!
Sorry the remark about Toad & Clifford being the same is completely incorrect.
I had a Clifford Concept 600 a few years ago, and the wife had a Toad Ai606. Toad was crap, Clifford was far superior!
#12: Re: Custom Alarm Author: VorTechS, Location: Gloucestershire, UKPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:54 am ---- You know, I swear at one point they bought Toad out.
Their website certainly used to have all the user manuals for the toads alarms as well as the Cliffords (because I had to go their to get my manual when I needed it once).
But that's certainly not the case now. So, happy to hold my hands up and admit a mistake!
Sorry for the mis-leading statement.
#13: Re: Custom Alarm Author: Lee, Location: EnglandPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:24 am ---- An alarm is only as good as it's installer. You can technically have the best alarm in the world, but if the installer is w**k, the alarm is w**k
I paid £400 for a Clifford Avantguard 5.5
#14: Re: Custom Alarm Author: EDP407, Location: Melksham, WiltshirePosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:10 pm ---- Wow thank you for all your advice guys, I will take it on board.
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