Hi, > A good car alarm should have its own reserve source of power, as many > crooks will cut a battery cable to disable the alarm before tampering > with the car. This doesn't address the major limitation of car alarms: > nobody cares (other than the car's owner) when the alarm goes off. > I'm going to put one or two piezzo sound bombs inside my car. If no one on the outside minds an alarm then maybe the thief would mind the 100db+ of high pitched, skull cracking audio energy in a confined space ;-) Niki