Alarm System Sugestion - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

4A-GE · 06-01-2003, 03:48 PM

.. greetings...

currently i'm looking to buy an alarm system for my dad's 01' Hyundai Elantra for this year Father's Day... all he needs is keyless entry and those beeping sound so he can find his car... cuz he sometime forgets where he parks... so can anyone suggests any good one..? brand names? price? and where to install? thx ...

prophesized · 06-02-2003, 01:18 AM

anything by dei

Xenon · 06-03-2003, 09:45 PM

DEI is the leading manufacturer of Automotive Security systems.

There's a few other brand names like Compustar, Alpine, Clifford.

You can get a basic alarm system, since that's what your father seems to need. Don't get any flashy bells and whistles.

prophesized · 06-03-2003, 11:21 PM

dei owns clifford now

4A-GE · 06-03-2003, 11:23 PM

so where in TO i could find these alarm systems?

... ... how much am i looking for if i buy a Dei system and installed?

thx!!

Xenon... do you work as a installer or something?

Xenon · 06-04-2003, 02:45 AM

Yes I work at a shop called

Safe & Sound Installations
Phone: (416)757-7233
180 Nantucket Boulevard, Scarborough, ON M1P 2N9

We are a DEI certified distributor and iinstaller.

MAP

By the way! I know DEI owns Clifford now, but you can still buy Clifford alarms that are older models but still brand new.

angelox · 06-04-2003, 09:11 AM

what do u think about (DEI) Avital Alarms
such as the Avital 2100? a good buy?

also is getting a motion sensor a good idea or will it just make the car go off everytime someone walks by

prophesized · 06-04-2003, 11:34 AM

in my old corolla i had an avital in there that was a couple years old and one day it went nuts and ended up frying my starter when a bunch of stuff shorted out. even the guy at my shop said he had seen problems with that line but i dont know about the newer stuff so xenon can tell you about that. i had a python in my corolla to replace the avital and it worked great.

Xenon · 06-04-2003, 01:11 PM

Well! I don't know if Future Shop still has that offer but for a while they used to replace any avital alarm with a viper alarm.

Avitals are not the best to have, they were always the cheap bottom line Clifford alarms, the Avital Starter Alarm combos were notorious for electrical problems.

I had an Avital on my Corolla and it used to go off and start beeping all by itself, I would just arm and a few seconds later it would start screaming. When I took the unit out thinking it was a defect and replaced with a new one, the exact same thing kept on happening!!