Date:         Fri, 4 Jul 1997 19:52:31 -0400 (EDT)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Gcarlen@aol.com
Subject:      Re: Hornet car alarm?

In a message dated 97-07-04 05:46:00 EDT, cdearl@cats.ucsc.edu (Charles D
Earl) writes:

> One word of advice, check out the "pin switch" used on the sliding door.  
>  Mine is a fairly long and skinny metal plunger.  It sticks out a fair 
>  ways, one time camping I cut my right forearm pretty bad going in 
>  through the sliding door :(  Obviously this entrance gets heavy use, I 
>  plan on replacing that *!?%@#* switch with something safer (shorter and 
>  more rounded, maybe plastic).

Charles,

Thanks for the word of advice!  I got my alarm installed yesterday and it
seems to be great!  I'm very happy with it.  It seems to work just fine...no
one's stolen it yet!  (yuk,yuk).  Anyway, I'm still getting used to it, I've
managed to set it off several times by accident already.  

I mentioned what you said about the sliding door pinswitch.  So, the guy at
the shops said no problem, he pulled out a different kind of switch from his
bag of tricks and put in this plastic rounded end pinswitch.  Sticks out
about 1.5 inches.  He said if it still feels like its in the way later, I can
take a pair of pruners (like the kind you cut tree limbs with) and cut it
shorter. He said don't go any shorter than about 3/4 of an inch so that it
will still get pushed in when the sliding door closes.

How far away do your remotes work?  Mine seem to work only as far as about 25
feet.  Maybe the batteries are dying?

BTW, the three times my van was broken into was each in different states
while traveling.  (Including getting stripped in NYC)!

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Gregg Carlen
85 Westy (149k)
76 Goldwing
51 Plymouth
75 Mercedes
69 Alcort
...need more toys!
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