Clifford Saved my Car

[Funano]

Not the big red dog, but the alarm. When I got my car, it had a clifford G5 alarm equipped with all the goodies and sensors (Proximity sensor, tilt sensor, doors, breaking glass and my favoite-blackjax). Anyway I was leaving class the other day when my friend calls me and asks me what my car is doing on the side of the road on a very large intersection. He said it had all the lights off and nobody was inside it. I was baffled by this call and laughed at him and told him, "It must be some other sucker's car that looks like mine (Flat black, gold wheels) ".

Now, normally I can see my car from my classroom at my local college but I have this thing about looking at the floor when I'm on the phone and wasn't looking into the parking lot while I was walking. When I lifted my head and found out that my friend wasn't joking. I was the sucker.

I asked him "Where did you say my car was??" As it turns out, the intersection he was referring to wasn't even a block away from where I was and I knew that my alarm had cut the power to the car after about twenty seconds of driving. The Blackjax feature requires you to enter a numerical password on a small keypad in order to keep the car running. If it isn't entered within twenty seconds, get the hell out of there because you will look like an idiot in a stolen car that will not move for anything. I had changed that password as soon as I bought the car just in case

It turns out that whoever took the car had an extra alarm keypad and an extra key to get into it because nothing in the car wan missing or even scratched. Windows are intact, all lock cylinders are fine, they didn't even take my ipod or my boost controller I had sitting in my glove box. At least they had the courtesy to put the e-brake on so the car wouldn't roll away at the intersection lol.

So instead of going to the previous owner's house and setting him on fire, I am changing all the locks and clearing all the alarm keypads except the two that I own and taking all precautions to prevent this from ever happening again. (Including taking my steering wheel with me when I go to class.)

So if you're ever in the market for an alarm, Clifford is the way to go in my book. Sorry for such a long story, but I hopefully made it easier by using these nifty little paragraphs. Hopefully this can benefit someone in the future. Thanks for reading

[TurboSauce]

wow, sounds like a worthy investment.

[ash16847]

Wow, thanks for the review of this product, I think I may have to get one of these for my coupe! thanks, and glad you got the car back unharmed

[allenms240]

how much do they run for installed?

Where you getting your new lock cylinders/ignition?

[SoCal-S13]

definately going to get that instead of a viper. wow. thank you in advance

[Funano]

how much do they run for installed?

Where you getting your new lock cylinders/ignition?

The alarm itself isn't terribly expensive, it's the intallation that'll run you a few hundred bucks. Look online for clifford intelliguard 770 to see photos of just how much wiring is involved in one of these babies. Worth every penny.

As for the ignition lock cylinder, I'm looking into rockauto.com I should be able to pick one up for about 95 bucks.

[biggie]

Would still be tracking down that previous owner.

[Lobo240sx]

Wow man so glad you got your car back. I gotta get my BMW car alarm working so when that happens it will kill the car if stolen. Thinking about installing a GPS but put the beaken where nobody can find it easily...

240's around here aren't high theft like honda civics, integras and hatches. Sounds like to me somebody knew you had that setup already.

[simmode1]

Sounds like to me somebody knew you had that setup already.

So instead of going to the previous owner's house and setting him on fire,

Would still be tracking down that previous owner.

This Clifford sounds pretty awesome, especially if it was the previous owner, who already knew if was installed & he still couldn't steal it...

[DamonDread]

Its going on my supra. Thanks for the reviw.

[audtatious]

Did you bring the cops into it? Next time they know they will have 20 seconds to drive it out of the lot and onto a flat bed or into a van.

[Jagstang]

Nice, but why doesn't the alarm kill the car as soon as the thief opens the door? I have a compstar 2 way alarm, and the signal reaches my pager up to 5000 feet Away. This basically tells me if anything is happening to my car etc. And yea, as soon as someone breaks into the car by smashing the window, or by means of opening the door magically etc, the alarm will go off like nuts, and cut the fuel, which prevents you from starting it. Clifford should have done that.

Sometimes 20 seconds is all you need to drive a car to a specific location/flat bed truck like the member above mentioned.

P.S. Every composted alarm is programmer differently, so you can't use another random compusrar alarm button. Maybe that's what happened? J
Highly doubt the previous owner did it.

[AZ89two4Tsx]

[biggie]

Nice, but why doesn't the alarm kill the car as soon as the thief opens the door? I have a compstar 2 way alarm, and the signal reaches my pager up to 5000 feet Away. This basically tells me if anything is happening to my car etc. And yea, as soon as someone breaks into the car by smashing the window, or by means of opening the door magically etc, the alarm will go off like nuts, and cut the fuel, which prevents you from starting it. Clifford should have done that.

Sometimes 20 seconds is all you need to drive a car to a specific location/flat bed truck like the member above mentioned.

P.S. Every composted alarm is programmer differently, so you can't use another random compusrar alarm button. Maybe that's what happened? J
Highly doubt the previous owner did it.

Did you read? Said they had a key fob to unlock and get in the door, so they turned off the main alarm, but didn't have the code to deactiviate the kill switch.

[mixeds14]

damn dude, i would definitely be involving the cops and the previous owner on this..he probably figure that the code u had to enter was still the same as some people tend no to chance it.....

might just have to look into the alarm system.. what model is it?..

[pj]

yeah i agree, previous owner or one of his buddies...if they already knew what system was in there and took advantage, possibly assuming you hadnt changed the blackjax code yet.
crazy story, glad it worked out in your favor though and got it back unstripped and with your belongings still inside.

[Funano]

Yeah I called the cops and they sent over a Dodge intrepid with yellow lights on the roof PSA made a report and everything but there's nothing I could do about finding whoever did it. The only people who may have seen anything were other motorists driving by on the street.

I'm definitely thinking it was one of his buddies... I happen to know he hangs around with alot of Honda guys and around my area, (Miami FL) you can't sleep at night if you own a nice honda.

damn dude, i would definitely be involving the cops and the previous owner on this..he probably figure that the code u had to enter was still the same as some people tend no to chance it.....

might just have to look into the alarm system.. what model is it?..

It's a Clifford intelliguard. There are a couple models that feature Blackjax though.

[420sxWETDREAMS]

Would still be tracking down that previous owner.

^^^
THIS...Then

^^^^^^
This