Hmmm ..  maybe the blinkin light is good enough...

Pensionerd.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:08 PM, David Cohen <Mtbdavid2@aol.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all your responses.  I had the alarm installed and the
> installer had no problem installing the horn.  He crawled under the
>  driver's side
> front end and installed it up there.  I now have remote door  lock/unlocks
> including the sliding door.
>
> My sliding door was not unlocking all the time when I opened the  driver's
> door, about 50% of the time.  I took some fine steel wool and  cleaned the
> contacts on both the door and the door channel and now the sliding  door
> unlocks 100% of the time with the remote alarm thingy. Oh, be careful if
>  you
> use steel wool to clean the contacts on the door channel, it caught my
>  steel
> wool on fire twice, then I changed to fine sandpaper.
>
> Bye the way, the only car that I ever had broken into at least in the past
> ten years had no alarm.  All my other cars have an alarm with a blinking
> light.
>
> David
>
>
> In a message dated 10/29/2009 3:43:39 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>  scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM writes:
>
> prolly  15 members by now have said .......
> 'Drop the spare and look up in  there."
>
> there's lots of room up in there to mound the alarm  horn.
> It's good to drop the spare tire and wheel  now and then and  check it too,
> of course.
>
> scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
>
> -----  Original Message -----
> From: "David Cohen" <Mtbdavid2@AOL.COM>
> To:  <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 10:22  PM
> Subject: question on where to install alarm horn on 1990  Vanagon
>
>
> > Hi,
> >  I brought my 1990 Vanagon in to the  shop today to have an alarm
> > installed.  I didn't notice any  access to the nose of the van where the
> > radiator is
> > located  and where I thought an alarm horn should be located.   If any
>  of
> > you have had an alarm installed where did you have the alarm  horn
> > mounted?
> > Also, just curious, how do I get access to where  the radiator is
> located?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  David
>