Albourneboy
20th Feb 2006, 13:16
Hi There
I'm a newcomer to the world of Land Rovers having bought my very first one last September mainly to tow a 1900Kg caravan (being delivered on 4th Mar) and accomodate a family of 6. I now have a TDV6 with auto gearbox and it is awesome and we love it to bits:D . So far (after 5000 miles), nothing has gone wrong with it and I hope it stays that way.
However, the point of this post is to ask if any other D3 owners out there have actually heard their alarm go off.
Some f*!@#wit with nothing better to do smashed my rear (tailgate) window last Thursday evening whilst the car was parked outside my house. We didn't hear the alarm go off so I tested it by sitting in the car and locking myself in with the key. After squirming around in there for a least 3 minutes whilst waving my arms around in front of the sensors, the alarm finally sounded but it was pathetic :eek: and no one in our house heard it, even though they were stood at the window watching some 50 feet way!
On Saturday, I went to the dealers and got them to lock me and one of their salesmen in one of their cars with the same result. It took me and him 3 or 4 minutes of frantic arm flapping and trying to rock the car to get the alarm to go off and once again, it was pathetic - wouldn't alarm a baby let alone a hardened 14 year old yobbo!
I intend to write to Land Rover about this as I don't think this is good enough protection for a £40,000+ car. I know it wouldn't have stopped the little git from breaking in to the car but if the alarm had gone off, and you could actually hear it when it did, he might have been caught and I wouldn't be £60 out of pocket.
I'm a newcomer to the world of Land Rovers having bought my very first one last September mainly to tow a 1900Kg caravan (being delivered on 4th Mar) and accomodate a family of 6. I now have a TDV6 with auto gearbox and it is awesome and we love it to bits:D . So far (after 5000 miles), nothing has gone wrong with it and I hope it stays that way.
However, the point of this post is to ask if any other D3 owners out there have actually heard their alarm go off.
Some f*!@#wit with nothing better to do smashed my rear (tailgate) window last Thursday evening whilst the car was parked outside my house. We didn't hear the alarm go off so I tested it by sitting in the car and locking myself in with the key. After squirming around in there for a least 3 minutes whilst waving my arms around in front of the sensors, the alarm finally sounded but it was pathetic :eek: and no one in our house heard it, even though they were stood at the window watching some 50 feet way!
On Saturday, I went to the dealers and got them to lock me and one of their salesmen in one of their cars with the same result. It took me and him 3 or 4 minutes of frantic arm flapping and trying to rock the car to get the alarm to go off and once again, it was pathetic - wouldn't alarm a baby let alone a hardened 14 year old yobbo!
I intend to write to Land Rover about this as I don't think this is good enough protection for a £40,000+ car. I know it wouldn't have stopped the little git from breaking in to the car but if the alarm had gone off, and you could actually hear it when it did, he might have been caught and I wouldn't be £60 out of pocket.