question about factory security system
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question about factory security system
When a door is opened and the instrument cluster says you have x number of seconds to start before the alarm goes off, does it reset if the alarm does go off? My truck was molested in Houston today. The bunged up the driver door handle and unlocked it. The low life scum did not take a single thing. There was no indication that the door had been opened. So I was just curious if the alarm would reset and not give an indication that it had been activated.
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Ok. I got home and performed a test. When the door is opened, you have ten seconds to start the vehicle to cancel the alarm. If it is not started, the lights flash and the horn honks. If you shut the door and open again, the horn quits and the lights continue to flash. After about five minutes the lights go out and there is no indication that the alarm had ever been tripped. Overall a pretty useless system. I guess now is the time for a set of jimmy jammers, although I wonder if that would make the low life pos to do more damage trying to get in. Does anyone know a good place, maybe a sponser that sells jimmy jammers?
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Now I want to test this myself.
This does sound useless even if the truck is outside the house and I were asleep, they could shut the truck up within one or two sounds of the horn and I probably wouldn't know it.
This does sound useless even if the truck is outside the house and I were asleep, they could shut the truck up within one or two sounds of the horn and I probably wouldn't know it.
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I do not have my new truck just yet (next week!) but the alarm on my Sport-Trac if activated, when you come back to it after it has reset, and you disarm with the remote, the horn chirps 5 times instead of the normal 2 times to let you know there was a violation. Happened several times when I park under a walnut tree. This has been pretty standard with the vehicles I have had. Never seen one that lets you get in though, steal something and then shut the door during a "grace period". If that is the case, I will be buying one more aftermarket toy to install.
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BTW, I had a dummy key cut for my 2011 F550. It's only good for unlocking the door, but once you unlock the door with it the countdown starts. If you use the key in the ignition it will stop the countdown. If you turn the dummy key forward as if to start the truck, the alarm will go off.
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