has this happened to anyone else?

i noticed on my 3rd day of ownership that they installed the wrong alarm. some generic crap called "automate" i think. has this happened to anyone else? it was 5pm on saturday when i noticed and now i'll have to wait til monday after work to go in there and tell them they are going to install the correct alarm on my car. i paid $469 for scion security and was never informed i was getting a cheaper version. i am so mad.

 

why on earth would you spend borderline $500 for a stock alarm system?
I got a viper 330v add-on to my factory keypad installed for like $200.

 

sorry to tell u but i think the automate might be better then the scion security. the automate comes with a 2 way remote right?

 

i know i had that option. i just wanted it to be easy and i wanted it integrated into my tc key.

 

it came with no separate remote, and from my understanding the scion security has a glass break sensor and whatever i have does not.

i'm willing to bet it was cheaper for the dealer to try and sneak this by me and/or easier for them to install.

 

My alarm uses the tc key only.

 

it might be the dealers option to choose who they contract to install it, when i got my alarm they had an outside company install it for them wich took a week and a half to get it done after it was payed for. call and ask what kind of alarms they have available but dont tell them you got one thru them allready, or ask for a brochure of the alarm they installed on your car

 

this is exactly what i'm going to do tomorrow actually, call and ask what alarms they have for tc and how much they are. then i am going to go in armed with the facts that their dealership told me along with the name of who i talked to. i probably wouldnt have cared if they did tell me they could only install alarm with outside company, they just should have at least told me! i hate being lied to. not the beginning of a good relationship for me and this dealer. i had such high hopes. sigh.

 

scion security sucks anyhow..

 

this response is not really helpful. why? what do you have? do you have any experience with this AutoMate thing they put in?

 

no experience.. though i hear it has shock sensors at least.

scion security has a limited amount of features.

if your window is open, car armed.. and if someone trys to open the door from the inside... car locks and alarm goes off.. if window is broken.. alarm goes off.... other than that, there's not much else.

you can kick a hole in the door and scion security won't go off.

you can do a bit of searching.. including looking up the words "scion security sucks" and you'll get a few results

 

yea i have the scion security and i havent been able to set it off...not good

 

even his smart a$$ remark is full of ****, did you ever think the dealer sets the alarm toward minimum so that its not alway going off for no reason. set the sensitive button to your standard or max

 

^ yea i did actually, took pics on it and everything in another topic talkin about scion security, set to max...

 

now that sux if it doesn't go off after that, what brand did they install on yours ?

 

I've been plenty happy with mine. It goes off if a window is broken, it goes off if a door is forced open, and it goes off if the car is hit. It fulfills all of my requirements for what an alarm should do.

Are there better ones out there at a lower cost? Perhaps. But in any case, the poster didn't ask for opinions on the stock alarm. She asked if anyone else had this problem. And the answer to every post is not "you should have searched."

erynne936 - did you go in to the dealer today? What did you find out?

 

esemrfozz13 i have the scion security...

jrussell i thought the scion security doesnt come with gyro sensors so how can ur car go off if its hit? unless glass is smashed

 

It'll go off without the glass breaking. Had a punk a$$ kid throw a handful of pebbles at my car. I'm sure it was just the sound of the rocks hitting, but it went off.

 

what dealership did you buy from

 

the frequency of glass breaking and loudness determines the alarm going off.. say if a rock hit the glass and the alarm was sensitive enough.. yes... it should go off... as the rock hitting the glass creates the "glass breaking frequency"