Alarms and Central Locking
Turbo Mini Forums

I'm in the process of building the car back up and want to fit and alarm and remote locking. Its been years since I hade to think about buying anything like this or indeed fit them to a mini.

Anyone got any recommendations for good alarms, suppliers etc?

cheers

Rob

I've got a Laserline Cat 1 Alarm & Immobiliser in the British Open and it is the worst thing I have ever brought for the car.

Whatever alarm you go for make sure that you can deactivate it when you go on the rollers. I need my ignition on to power my MJ & make changes to the map, however if I have the ignition on for more than 5 seconds without starting the engine the bloody alarm goes off.

EDIT: Wrote injection instead of ignition, I must be getting ahead of myself.

Edited by Rob H on 28th Sep, 2008.

I fitted the alarm and locking kit that minispares stock, been on the car the8 years ive had it, never had a problem.
Shane

thats a good call - I'll be running megajolt too. I take it the laserline doesn't have a valet mode? I had an old clifford alarm years ago in my metro that could be switched off with a hidden switch - not sure if this would conform to CAT standards though

The mini spares one has a valet switch, not a bad unit with loads of switchable options on.
Shane

cheers Shane - i'll have a look at it

Rob

i bought one of these and fitted it, quite straight foward.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CLASSIC-MINI-CENTRAL...id=p3286.c0.m14

and got a garage to install a toad alarm & immobiliser and they connected it up to the central locking to unlock the car when disarming the alarm.

I was looking at these last night on the bay. probably a good starting point as I can at least get the doors built up