To think your an arse to have car alarm....

[Lovelypompoms]

and park outside someone else's house. They should be banned.

There's a car parked outside, the alarms been going off for 3hrs. It's now 3am. This happenes regularly but with different cars.

Are alarms even a deterrent? when I hear one now, I don't think 'oh gosh quick someone could be breaking into that car' I think 'oh look what an arsehole parking outside my bedroom window with their alarm going if at 3am' if I saw someone stealing it I would be releived the noise had stopped and I could get some sleep.

But yes yanbu to the faulty alarm/parking outside someone elses house part!

A couple of my previous cars have had alarms (current one doesn't). They came as standard.

There was always a way to lock the car without arming the alarm if it should be necessary to do so. It should be explained in the manual.

Doesn't there have to be such an option? Specifically for circumstances such as these?

If its regular but different cars perhaps people are trying to break in and it actually is working as a deterrent?

A) My two most recent cars have had an alarm as standard. B) Where I live it's all on street parking and very busy so you usually have to park outside someone else's house. Occasionally car alarms go off. Occasionally house alarms go off. It is annoying but so is the sound of the builders two doors down, the endless emergency service vehicles I can hear from miles away and the various dogs that bark from time to time.

We didn't even realise we had An alarm until DD locked herself in the car and then set it off

I think they are much better these days. Ours has never gone off randomly to my knowledge and I would definitely hear it a sim a light sleeper and my drive is directly under my bedroom window.

I thought car alarms were limited in the amount of time they go off for, and the number of times.

Now house alarms really fuck me off. They're incredibly loud, don't have a time limit and are just as ignored as car alarms

All alarms on new cars these days are standard

If you lock the car with the key fob the alarm is active. If you lock the car using the actual key in the driver door it locks it with the alarm disabled. I figured this out after getting a dog!

Both of them cars have alarms as standard, they weren't optional extras. Car insurance still ask if you have them too and they can, and do, affect insurance quotes. Both have immobilisers as standard too.

Both were bought as new cars. Dh has a 2y old discovery; mine is a 3 month old Abarth 500.

Fortunately I've never known either, or our previous cars either, go off randomly.

Only turn them off or disable them IF you have let your insurance company know you don't have a working car alarm!