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Shospeedmaster

Has any one installed the factory alarm system? How hard is the installation? And what does it do?

Forchetto

Enter the alarm part number A9808085 into this site:

http://www.triumphinstructions.com/

You can download the instruction sheets and see for yourself what's involved.

echoraven

Lots horror stories on the factory alarms. Unless your in a particularly high theft area, just slap a disk lock on it. There are disk locks with built in alarms.

The factory alarms are great in theory, but there are quite a few stories about them "bricking" the entire bike. Lots of better options.

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norton74

When I bought my T100, I asked the dealer (San Bernardino, CA) about theft. He said that in all the years that he had owned his Triumph dealership, he had heard about only one theft of a Triumph. According to him, the thieves are interested more in HD's.

threewheelsuk

Absolute rubbish only fitted it at the insistance of the insurance company, if you fit just be sure you know how to bypass it.

Barry

grzegorz

lots of troubles

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Forchetto

It can be bypassed by re-fitting the dummy plug that comes with the bike, mind you the alarm makers insist on this plug being returned to them to effect insurance cover or something.

I quote from the fitting instructions:

• The alarm connector is an unused black
coloured terminal block. The shorting plug is
the cover for this terminal block which is fitted
with a double hoop of black cable.
• The shorting plug must be returned to
DATATOOL with the registration
documentation.


It's a bit silly considering that any would-be thief or owner could get a replacement dummy plug from their dealer, it's part number T2500396 and costs about $6.

Alternatively a new one can be knocked-up at home using components from the likes of RS. The contacts to be linked up with a piece of wire are 1-2 & 3-5 :

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/produc...633D4E4F4E4526

Gary_spain

Had mine fitted for about three years and never had a problem. Never had to top the battery up or been hassled in any way. Bike still has it's original (5 yo) battery although it's probably gonna need changing this winter.

Auto-arming is a problem when one is close to official buildings due to the frequency jammers Spanish government institutions all seem to have. Not found a way to disable this feature.

I also heard about possible problems and always have the original loopback plug in my jacket pocket just in case - touch wood never needed it!

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Shospeedmaster

I think I would just stay away from it. On the 2013 Thurxton, there is an Alarm light in the speedometer and I wanted to complete its function. But where I live... I don't really need one.