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 Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:45 pm |
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Location: Melksham, Wiltshire
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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?
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:50 pm |
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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
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:55 pm |
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| 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?
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:02 pm |
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| 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
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 7:08 pm |
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Location: Melksham, Wiltshire
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| T_bandery wrote: |
| 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 |
ok then, cheers for the help. their must be someone who does it in my area, let's hope its not too much!!
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Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:30 pm |
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when u buy one ask if they offer fiting, thts what i done with the cliford on my old 206
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 12:25 am |
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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.
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:04 am |
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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
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:21 am |
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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
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| My Powerflow is quite loud but then again it's on ITBs and has a decat. |
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 5:23 am |
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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.
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 7:50 am |
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| 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!
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:54 am |
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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.
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:24 am |
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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
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Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:10 pm |
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Joined: Feb 15, 2010
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Location: Melksham, Wiltshire
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Wow thank you for all your advice guys, I will take it on board.
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