I sorta agree with you... but no one covers up a crappy car... so if I were a curious individual I might wonder what is so special that it is covered up. Also, the cover provided a nice place to hide under and not be seen while inside, and most likely they will end up shredding your cover too costing you more money. I think the best thing is a good alarm, one with a two way pager system then beeps and vibrates. These pagers are just little keychains, the good thing is that they usually have an auto start and a lot of other goodies too. Don't get me wrong, I think people who park outside need car covers for when ever the weather kicks in, I cover mine up in the weather but I am not going to cover it up when I am at the mall. People don't pay attention to car alarms at the mall, but if they are REALLY loud, and coming out of a DeLorean they might. The key is to get the right alarm that doesn't go off everytime some kid presses his nose against the glass, it needs to be tuned to take a real shock or pressure change. The DeLorean that cries "wolfe" is as bad as one that is silent. You need to spend a few bucks and get the GOOD alarm and have it professionally installed. Also, at the house, get a VIDEO CAMERA and hook it up to a monitor and recorder. Put it next to your desk. Mine even has audio, so I can turn up the sound and hear what is going on. Actually, mine has a small built in speaker intercom and I can talk back through the camera. >From here at the command center that is my office I can see the front of the house, the cars and the horses. I can switch between them and record images. SAM'S CLUB sells some great systems cheap, and even sell a digital hard drive recorder with a Sony Memory Stick slot for saving and printing images, I think it's less than $300.00 Remember, people with a vendetta who vandalize will sometimes come back for seconds after you have made the repairs... sometimes it is almost worth the damage to catch the SOB. I would tell you more, but I can not on the grounds in which it might incriminate me :> - Videobob >From: "Dave Stragand" <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [DML] Re: Vandalized D >Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:48:31 -0500 > > > >For those of you who are forced to keep your car outside, I would really >recommend getting a car cover. (In the interest of "vendor disclosure", >yes, I do sell them. However, I won't try to sell anyone a cover here -- I >will simply try to sell you on the IDEA of a cover --ANY COVER-- even from >Wal-Mart or the like.) To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/