XO Vision DX382 Universal Car Alarm System with Two 4-Button Remotes

I bought this for the features and not really for the alarm. I wanted remote door locks on an older car that had power locks without a remote (88 Pontiac Fiero). Installation was a bit challenging but more due to my inexperience with the wiring in the car than the fault of the DX382, I had to purchase some additional relays to adapt the alarm to the power locks in my car but they were fairly inexpensive. Once I figured out where to mount it and how to splice it into the wiring, the alarm worked great, remote door lock features were more than what I expected, and I even wired the trunk latch to work with the remote. There are some programmable features like having the doors lock 15 seconds after you start the car and unlock when you turn it off.My only real gripe is that the remote fobs use some weird batteries that are kind of pricey and I've had to replace them a couple times but not a big deal. You can't beat this alarm for the price, period! If I needed to add remote to another car, I would purchase this alarm again.

Outstanding for the price. I'm an electrician and my vehicle is simple, so I had no problem installing this myself. There's no real instructions included, just a schematic. You have to know what size wire to use if you want to extend the wires they supply and where to intercept the wiring in your vehicle, for example. Then you also have to be able to get to the wires, which are often under the dashboard and in wiring harnesses. One drawback is it's too easy to push the buttons. If I bend over to tie my shoes with my keys in my pocket, I'll sometimes set off the panic alarm.There is no sounder supplied with this kit. You have to buy a siren separately.The alarm is a brain that has many features. I appreciate that you can use as many or as few features as you want. I installed the brain, the shock sensor, the blinky blue LED and a separately purchased siren on the first afternoon and stopped there because.... well... I just haven't gotten around to doing anything more. I put it on a classic vehicle. Around this neighborhood there's more brazen stupidity than careful thievery acumen, so the blinky light and noise maker scares people off. I had to extend the wires to put the LED, which flashes when the alarm is armed, up by the rearview mirror which makes it look like a high class installation. The fact that the LED is blue is great. It's better than the older red ones because the blue is piercing and scums can see it from the end of the block.The features I haven't yet deployed are switches that would set off the alarm if someone opens the hood or trunk and a thing to open or close your electric locks. My vehicle doesn't have electric locks, but you can buy aftermarket actuators that will turn your old fashioned locks into modern remotely operated ones. I really want that feature but the classic is in storage at the moment, so I'll get there eventually.The shock sensor has two different adjustments because it has two thresholds. You can adjust the force required for it make just a warning chirp and the force required for it to set off the loud siren. It is difficult to get this where you want it like at least one other reviewer said because the method it uses to detect shock gets set off by fireworks (which you have a lot of in trashy neighborhoods where an alarm is necessary) and by loud pipes on motorcycles, etc. The shock sensor is good in my case because even though I didn't bother to install the door switches yet, the shock sensor will set off the alarm from the force of someone getting in and slamming the heavy classic vehicle door shut behind them.One small negative is that it's easy to accidentally press the buttons on the remote. I have occasionally hit the buttons as I'm getting the keys out of my pocket. Doesn't happen with the other alarm fob on the same keychain.

Several years ago I spent over $300 to have an alarm and remote access installed in one vehicle. This time I checked around a bit more and found I could get a 'basic' alarm installed for $100 but another $50 for 'remote access'. Instead I found the XO Vision DX370 Universal Car Alarm System with Two 4-Button Remotes on Amazon at $29.99 and am very glad I did.You will wish you had at least SOME experience in installing these things when you install it yourself but the XO Vision is, indeed, a fully featured alarm system costing $250 -$350 from other manufacturers. I bought mine and installed it on my truck in about 1 1/2 to about 2 hours. Since my truck is an SUV, the remote unlocks both the doors and the back rather than a trunk. The XO Vision DX370 contains enough spare parts to use with with just about ANY configuration and even supply's it's own siren for that price!!Not only is it a fantastic bargain but it works beautifully! Try to start the SUV without disarming the alarm and the anti car-jacking protection has that vehicle dead as a stone! I pull and let drop a windshield washer blade to show my wife how the system is sensitive enough to 'chirp' out a pre-alarm at that slight of a pressure change. Since then I've purchased another XO Vision DX370 alarm for my wife on HER truck and I'm waiting for my daughters to tell me when they're ready for alarms installed on THEIR cars to order more!Hey! My advice is to buy as many of the XO Vision DX370 Universal Car Alarm System's as you can before they wise up and raise the price!!