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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 09:14 AM
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How many car alarms have you set off...

...with your truck? (NOT by running in to them).

I don't mean to do it on purpose, just sometimes driving around in a parkinglot idling along and when the auto shifts into 2nd the straight pipe makes a sound that I guess is just the right "wavelength" or whatever to cause someones car alarm sensor to vibrate and go off...

Anyway I think I've set off about 6.
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by dieselfuelonly
...with your truck? (NOT by running in to them).

I don't mean to do it on purpose, just sometimes driving around in a parkinglot idling along and when the auto shifts into 2nd the straight pipe makes a sound that I guess is just the right "wavelength" or whatever to cause someones car alarm sensor to vibrate and go off...

Anyway I think I've set off about 6.
More than I can count with my Dakota - however - none so far with the Ram... as it is still stock for now.
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 09:58 AM
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Originally Posted by dieselfuelonly
...with your truck? (NOT by running in to them).

I don't mean to do it on purpose, just sometimes driving around in a parkinglot idling along and when the auto shifts into 2nd the straight pipe makes a sound that I guess is just the right "wavelength" or whatever to cause someones car alarm sensor to vibrate and go off...

Anyway I think I've set off about 6.
Six! I did that down 1 street a couple months back the Friday night right after straight piping.


Just wanted to see how it sounded echoing off different types of vehicles.

I try not to put my foot into it that much now.
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 10:06 AM
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At least one a week for the last 3 years since I put the exhaust on my truck.
My old GMC used to rumble enough to set them off all the time too. There is a mall near here with an underground parking garage. If you drive through there you can set off dozens of them at once. lol
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 10:11 AM
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alot......!!!
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 10:53 AM
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Got about 4 2 @ work 2 on the home street!!
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 11:09 AM
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Countless!!!!!
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 11:21 AM
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several, mostly in residential neighborhoods in seattle. Sometimes more than one in the same block!
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 11:29 AM
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The airport parking lot a fertile ground for a mass car alarm concert! My truck will do it weather I am trying to or not. I love it!
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 11:33 AM
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used to do it all the time with my straight pipe, now only every one in a while with the stacks... Guess the noise goes up not out!
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 12:54 PM
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All of them in the parking garages at the movie theatres, I drive all the way through there in 1st gear at 2500RPM+...
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 12:57 PM
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 03:17 PM
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3, but being in the country we don't get many car alarms around here. If we take the truck to one of the larger cities in the area, that's where we get them to go off. 1 at Wal-Mart, 1 at Lowes and 1 at the mall...
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 03:40 PM
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there is this one trans am, when he is home on my way home, I dunno, I can't resist......... lil blurp and off it goes Actually set off a few with my train horn, as far back as fifty feet and off this one car would go at a car show last year.
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Old Jun 25, 2007 | 03:48 PM
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I park in a parking garage at campus everyday...usually drive to the 4th level to park....I've always had a straight pipe on my truck so you do the math its ALOT
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