Re: Purchased Delorean 4912 - alarm activates

[jtrealty@xxxx]

My best advice to you if you cannot get the documentation for the 
alarm or the installation would be to carefully dissect the entire 
alarm out of the car. The alarms that you can install today are far 
superior to anything you probably have in the car. It will probably 
cost more to troubleshoot and understand your alarm then to remove it 
and install a new one. After a couple of years you generally cannot 
get support for old alarms and if they didn't document the install you 
don't know where to start. Unless you are going to use it as a daily 
driver or you live in a large city you don't even need it anyway. A 
good battery master switch will keep it from getting robbed and the 
car cannot be "slim jimmed" open like a conventional car. The alarm 
was not a factory install but the selling dealer may have done it.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxx, selash@xxxx wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to the list. I just purchased #4912 and have discovered
> that it does have an alarm. The previous owner was not helpful
> in helping me to deactivate it. He told me it came with the car
> and that he turned it off. Well, he does not remember how
> and I cannnot figure it out. It is very annoying at times.
> There is a toggle switch on the steering column that controls
> it, but I cannot figure out how to change modes. The previous owner
> told me that he thought the alarm was a factory install, I cannot
> find any information on an alarm in the owners manual. Any help
> would be appreciated. I am enjoying the car. It tends
> to be hard to start when warm, and I am looking into that problem.
> which sounds like a common thread. I will look into the archives.
> 
> Look forward to sharing on this list.
> 
> Tired of the alarm going off all the time,
> 
> Silas