Theives killing the alarm!

I have a friend that has a 99 Tahoe. Everything was taken out of it by a thief. He also noticed that the rear tail light was off and the bulb was gone. He has a Autopage 720 LCD, and obviously it didn't go off. I started thinking on what they did to disable the alarm. The siren wire was not cut. The battery cable was not cut or taken off. I was thinking that they took the tail light off, took the bulb out, stuck a screwdriver in there so the positive and negative of the connections to the bulp housing touch. From that point, I think it blew the fuse to the alarm. Anyone ever heard of this?

its a very old trick for bypassing alarms. most alarms today have a seperate feed for the lightflash and/or the light flash wires are fused after coming out of the brain. This stops this method from working.

evolution-uk is correct this is a very old trick for disabling an alarm and unless the alarm was improperly installed it wouldn't worked. maybe you need to take a look at the person that installed the alarm in the first place. how did they gain entry in to the vechile? popped the door lock?broke a window? does the alarm work now after they broke in?JUST ONE MORE AMP!!!

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shouldn't have worked  that was an early 90's trick thou all companies had that angle sorted by nowWhy oh Why didn't i take the blue pill

Darren Power

Thanks guys!

I remember seeing that in the MECP book. Since I aven't been installing since the early 90's I can only read about it. But a lot of companies added a fuse on the parking light wire to stop this. I would go back to the installer and see what he/she did on this wire. ~The Rookie~

Rookie of the year that is...

Don't let the smoke out of your equiptment..it doesn't go back in.