Setting off car alarms in the garage

Nikki · 08-08-2006, 12:41 AM

Ok, has anyone here noticed that they set off car alarms in parking garages? I swear every other time I give drive around the garage at least one car alarm goes off and I feel like a ricer lol. I don't know, maybe they just set their alarm sensitivity to high? Or maybe the exhaust just has the right pitch to set them off for some reason?

Anyone else have this problem?

ages944 · 08-08-2006, 12:42 AM

no, but I saw a Camaro set off about 10 in the garage at the movies last week.

shimshimhada · 08-08-2006, 01:05 AM

lol

JOYRIIDE1113 · 08-08-2006, 09:30 AM

I used to do that with my monster bass back whe I was 16. And I wasn't inside a garage. I was in an open street.

aphall · 08-08-2006, 10:37 AM

It doesn't have to be in parking garages. In my neighborhood, which is pretty ghetto, there are a ton of cars with their alarm sensitivity set to high. So, if a plane flies overhead, they go off. Or, if a car with loud bass drives by, the same thing happens. Since there are a ton of cars here with a ton of bass, and a lot of cars with highly sensitive alarms... it's all a viscious cycle.

EDIT: and I don't understand... the cars with the most sensitive alarms are on the shittiest of cars. One car here, doesn't even start!

CnoteMD · 08-08-2006, 10:47 AM

I seriously doubt its the exhaust causing the alarms to go off; the stock BMW exhaust is fairly quiet. It is more likely the vibrations from your car driving on the relatively unstable ground of the parking garage. Perfect example, stand in place while a few cars drive past you in a parking garage and you will feel a slight movement of the ground. This combined with the overly sensitive alarms that people have installed equals false alarms as you drive by.

ward · 08-08-2006, 10:50 AM

agreed, there's no way your car should be setting off car alarms even at full throttle (which I doubt you're at in the parking lot)

shragon · 08-08-2006, 10:58 AM

sorry, haven't notice it. i was able to do it at times with my e34, probably because of the exhaust.

Nikki · 08-08-2006, 04:02 PM

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Originally Posted by CnoteMD

I seriously doubt its the exhaust causing the alarms to go off; the stock BMW exhaust is fairly quiet. It is more likely the vibrations from your car driving on the relatively unstable ground of the parking garage. Perfect example, stand in place while a few cars drive past you in a parking garage and you will feel a slight movement of the ground. This combined with the overly sensitive alarms that people have installed equals false alarms as you drive by.

hmm oh ok. the way the garage is set up, if you're standing on a secton where two pieces connect you bounce up and down a whole lot when cars go by. they're like that down here in florida to deal with the rains and high winds from hurricanes and just the typical wet summers we have. i didn't think about that.

ages944 · 08-08-2006, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Nikki

hmm oh ok. the way the garage is set up, if you're standing on a secton where two pieces connect you bounce up and down a whole lot when cars go by. they're like that down here in florida to deal with the rains and high winds from hurricanes and just the typical wet summers we have. i didn't think about that.

all concrete/steel structures flex and move a bit. Similar vibrations occur in parking garages everywhere. You might be right though that the ones in FL and CA move relatively more than most though.

supernova · 08-08-2006, 08:15 PM

uhhuh uhhuh uhhuh. especially FL and CA.

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aphall Captain 34 Rep 776 Posts Drives: 330i rec'd 2/17/06 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA iTrader: (2) Garage List 2006 BMW 330i [0.00]	It doesn't have to be in parking garages. In my neighborhood, which is pretty ghetto, there are a ton of cars with their alarm sensitivity set to high. So, if a plane flies overhead, they go off. Or, if a car with loud bass drives by, the same thing happens. Since there are a ton of cars here with a ton of bass, and a lot of cars with highly sensitive alarms... it's all a viscious cycle. EDIT: and I don't understand... the cars with the most sensitive alarms are on the shittiest of cars. One car here, doesn't even start! __________________ JB \| BBS CHs \| Blacklines \| HO40 \| ACS Rep Roof Spoiler \| H&R Sport \| Hartge Rep Lip \| OEM Strut Bar \| M-Tech Rear
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CnoteMD Commander in Chief 37 Rep 1,034 Posts Drives: 2008 BMW 535i Join Date: May 2005 Location: Atlanta, GA iTrader: (0) Garage List 2008 M5 [0.00] 2006 330i [0.00]	I seriously doubt its the exhaust causing the alarms to go off; the stock BMW exhaust is fairly quiet. It is more likely the vibrations from your car driving on the relatively unstable ground of the parking garage. Perfect example, stand in place while a few cars drive past you in a parking garage and you will feel a slight movement of the ground. This combined with the overly sensitive alarms that people have installed equals false alarms as you drive by. __________________ 2008 BMW 535i Space Gray, Black Leather, Dark Bamboo Trim\| Sport Automatic with Paddles \| Sport Package 2008 BMW M5 (gone, but not forgotten) Space Gray, Silverstone Merino Leather, Madeira Walnut Wood Trim \| 7speed SMG \| All options Mods: Corsa Exhaust \| RPI Ram Air Intake \| H&R Sport Springs \| Rogue Engineering 12mm spacers
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