Nice to know that when our TLs get "slim jimmed" the car alarm goes off so no thieves can do it without causing attention.

(Locked myself out of my car and the Deer Park Police had to stick the slim jim in my car door to open it and the alarm went off to my suprise)

Just an interesting fact.

 

Wait, the alarm went off simply because an object was inserted into the door?

I didn't know that. That's nice.

 

Not exactly because the lock was picked and the alarm knew it was getting broken into

 

once the door gets unlocked with out the key or the remote the alarm will go off. roll down your window. lock the car with the remote. wait a little bit then reach in and hit the unlock button or pull the lock tab up.. the alarm will go off

 

yea i knew that, try rolling down ur windows then locking ur car, wait like 30secs then unlock the door from the inside, and there u go , ur alarm will go off

 

Oh, yeah, I knew that.


But I thought it had some kind of a sensor for slim jims inside the door panel.

 

well, it sucks to know that

 

is that all it has?.....no glass breakage sensor or anything?

 

or just sit in the car with windows up....arm, wait 30 secs and unlock or do whatever to test.

 

Our stock alarm sucks ass. Break the window and our alarm won't go off. And since our alarm arms off when you open it through the key hole, if someone "master keyed" your car, the alarm wouldn't go off. Stock alarms should be beefed up, but since it sucks, I got myself an aftermarket alarm (clifford RSX 3.5).

 

Yeah window breakage doesn't set off the alarm. But if you break the window, and unlock the door from the inside, the alarm goes off. So technically it indirectly is safe against window breakage.... That is unless they climb into the windows - Dukes-of-Hazard style.

 

no it goes off buy being unlocked. no sensors in the door