If you switch off your interior lighting your alarm stops working ?

Uhhh, yes. However, in my car there is no way to switch off all the interior lights that are run by the door switch. There are something like eight or nine lights that come on, and only four of them are independently switchable -- the others will come on as long as the bulbs are good if you open the door. Even if all the bulbs failed, the alarm would still go off when somebody sat in the car -- the motion detector would pick that up unless they sat very carefully.

Tip : Do not leave empeg in car and trust your alarm to guard it ...

A good tip. The only circumstance in which that happens is (occasionally) at home, where I live on a cul-de-sac with only three houses on it in a quiet, crime-free, low-density-population area of town, my driveway is over 500 feet long winding through trees and the house cannot be seen from any public vantage point. Most of the time the temperatures are cold enough to discourage thievery, and the car is a 15 year old station wagon that no self-respecting thief would ever look at twice (they'd be after the Porsche in the garage). So, I don't feel all that uneasy about occasionally leaving the empeg in the car overnight, but I would feel better if I could have the alarm protecting it.

On very rare occasions the empeg will be left in the car when I am at work, but the car is in a private, well-lit parking lot, and is visible from my desk.

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