why is european cars alarm system silent just lock  by flashing the headlights?
468451
European anti-noise regulations have reduced noise pollution in their cities - and forced automobile manufacturers to be silent about arming alarms.
367541
Your clocks jumped *automatically*???  DANG!!!  I spend an hour twice a year resetting all of mine!  It takes me so long because I can never remember how to do the ones on the stove, the microwave, and in my car, so I have to RTFM's (that's "read the {bleeping} manuals") every single time!  I'm green with envy.  Where do you buy your clocks???
1076852
possible openings to explore might include the timing of the yellow light, there have cases where it has been reset to less time which makes violations almost unavoidable. any traffic engineer can tell you what is a proper setting for the yellow but anything under 3 seconds could be considered a trap. a second thing might be the amout of time that passed between the violation and you recieving notice of it since too long a time could prevent you from mounting a defence simply because you no longer remember what happened. a third defence might be a claim of necessity because of the actions of another such as a tailgater behind you.
624696
I have it too from a car accident.  So far none of the things I have tried or places I have been sent have worked.  I think we are stuck with it.  One thing I do is put headphones on and listen to music when I fall asleep.  It sort of distracts me from the ringing.
500310
I worked for an Alarm comp for a long time. The silent alarm works like this.. once the button is pressed an emergency/distress signal is received at your Central Station Monitoring Company-they in turn contact the PD immediately and the PD is dispatched. Your total turnaround time (hopefully you have a good central station monitoring co) is no more than 2-6 minutes!
1104107
alarm is an electrical item which needs electricity to flow through to support it's functioning. 4-20mili ampere is a very little current which it's resistor can handel thus the design has been made like that
1016178
there are three different thing,s that will set the alarm off,,,first is oil mixture sensor,second is rev-limiter,help,s control of over racing the engine,and third is the temperature,of the engine,any one of these means you should check the engine,my boat has one,and the last time it went off the water pump was going out,and the motor was running,,just a little hotter than it should have,,but lucky for me i checked it,,and it helped save my motor,,and really that,s the job it was designed to do,,so you might want to take a little time and look your engine over,it may help save your engine too.
803101
They consist of a transmitter (loudspeaker) and a receiver (microphone)  The ultrasonic range is used so the constant noise doesn't annoy people (I have no idea what it might do for dogs and bats!)  the transmitter sets up a very stable standing wave of high frequency sound which is picked up by the receiver.  If anything gets between these two devices, the frequency changes a bit.  This change is detected by the receiver and the alarm triggered.  It can be very sensitive and so will detect movement in the boot but not all are as good as that and only work in the passenger compartment.
347163
We call those lights "idiot lights" in parts of the US.  This is because only an idiot will wait so long on car maintenance that a light has to trigger them to do something...\n...and as to your actual problem, the fuel pump is the most likely culprit.
1127994
It really depends on the motion sensor. There are two types, active and passive. Active sensors include the sensors that open grocery store doors (these send out microwave radio energy then wait for it to bounce back), also alarms that emit beams of light (if the beam is broken the change in light is detected). Active sensors basically send something out into the environment and receive the changes. The motion sensor in most alarm systems are considered passive dectectors because they don't emit anything, but detect changes in energy such as infrared energy. These are usually set to detect small changes in the temperature of the human body. One cool experiment is if you stand behind a window, the motion sensors won't "see" you! This is because glass isn't a good conductor of infrared energy. Either way, these devices are interesting inventions!
1097551
At work we just got motion sensitive switches.  If there isn't any movement for so long, the lights turn themselves off.  Saves a bunch on electricity.  Of course they automatically turn themselves back on when we walk through.
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Because most of them are going brain dead and don't realize that 1. It's a nuissance to the community, 2. It's a danger to themselves, their passengers, and other drivers because they can't hear emergency vehicles to get out of the way or other cars they are in danger of hitting, and 3. Playing the bass that loud in a car literally rattles the car apart costing them money to fix it repeatedly in the long run (not to mention the damage it does to surrounding buildings).  It's a shame that people who put these speaker systems in their vehicles haven't been taught better by their parents of the danger involved to their hearing, safety, and how ignorant it is toward others.  I've even seen mothers (mostly poor) driving around with their young children in vehicles with the sound so loud that their children now have hearing loss.  And the police claim it would take up too much of their time to go after these idiots to give them citations (in our area it's $100/offense--and no one has been cited).  The police in our area also realize that most of the people performing such a disservice to the community are also drug dealers who use loud car stereo systems to announce they are in the community to any buyers in ear-shot.  How dumb can you get?
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I would think that the centralized reporting has improved due to computerization.  Before, you would just hear an alarm going off.  Now, the security company knows exactly where the alarm was tripped and can notify you via phone, email, IM and pager.
459021
head lock...or 619...
246596
I would never take the batteries out , never ever...the alarm goes off for a reason.
861581
Cops have them too.  Use helicopters.  Require certain high speed models to come with a kill switch like are used on go-cart tracks.  Disabling it would activate a lo-jac type device or ruin the engine.
226689
Check the fuses. There are often several fuses for the headlights.