I already had the alarm installed, it was my daily driver, two of us often
in it, adding the locks to my existing alarm seemed a no-brainer as my wife
can get into the car without waiting for me to lean across and unlock it for
her. (I'm sure someone will interject here saying I should be *holding* the
door open for her ...). It is only occasionally I have to get as close as
the drivers window to unlock it, and incidentally switch off the alarm, and
although I could still unlock the door with the key all that would do would
set off the full son et lumiere. As to 'why bother?' as I say it was my
daily driver, lived outside, and had been the subject of two attacks within
the space of a couple of weeks, the second of which they had the radio
(minus its face-plate). How would an alarm stop someone breaking in do I
hear you say? Because I installed an alarm with a microwave outer perimeter
which gives a warning beep if anyone gets too close. A couple of weeks
after fitting it the beep went off one evening, but never again. Coming
back to steal my new radio (which was now a fully removable one kept in the
house overnight)? Possibly, it didn't happen again. You can always open
the doors with a flat battery - unless you have been daft enough to remove
the external locks. As it happens I can also open the bonnet from outside
the car, although I can't see the relevance.
PaulH.
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> Um, what is the purpose of remote power door locks if you have to hold the
> remote against the driver's window? Might as well put the key in the
lock...
>
> For the life of me I can't imagine the impulse that leads people to
install
> things like this. Gadget envy?
>
> Here's my question -- what happens when the battery dies, and you can't
> unlock the doors to access the battery (or even open the bonnet)?
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