i'm geting tired of my car alarm going off all the time, people around my neighborhood constantly have loud subwoofers and loud exhausts. So, i'm thinking about getting rid of the shock sensor completely and replaceing it with a glass break sensor.

anyone know how well these things work? Would i still have false alarms?

I have a DEI glass breakage sensor, and I'm not too happy with it. When we were testing it and trying to set it to the right sensitivity, I was able to set it off by screaming at the top of my lungs.

Also, my piezo sirens seem to set it off when my alarm chirps six times for my car locator function.

I think I may just need to tune down the sensitivity.

-Hanyo+Jul 30, 2005 - 3:46 AM
yeah just turn down the sensitivity

I have turning down the shock sensor to the point where you would have to kick the car real hard to get the warn away chirp. I think someone might beable to shatter my driver side window without setting off the car alarm. Its that insensitive. And this is not a cheap sensor also, its DEI. The problem is, loud subwoofers rattle the whole celica as they drive by, so the shock sensor is useless.

is your sensor a one or a two stage?

i have a two stage and stuff like subwoofers and exhaust just make my car chirp.

realllly loud exhaust and thunder are the only "naturally" occuring things that set it off

This post has been edited by Andason: Jul 31, 2005 - 3:06 PM

i have a "DEI DOUBLEGUARD SHOCK SENSOR", two stage.


what is a piezo shock sensor? is it any different from the one i am using?