Spy5000 alarms - Any experienced based opinions?

[WD Forte]

Anyone have any experience of the Spy 5000 alarm?
It's one of those with a 'long range' fob remote start etc

I have a scoot arriving tomorrow that keeps cutting out and
I suspect the spy5000 may be causing this as there are no reported error codes flashing up.

I reckon the first thing to do is disable it and see if that has any effect
If it runs fine its the alarm causing conniptions, if its still dodgy then I'll have to look deeper into it.

I found a lot of stuff on tinternet of Spy5000 fan bois drooling over them
ten minutes after fitting it, but no useful long term reviews.
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[Kawasaki Jimbo]

Do you know how to disable the alarm for sure, because if it’s actually fine and you make an uncertain job of bypassing or removing it you might then have a scooter with a mysterious fault and active immobilisation or a torn up loom. The fact that the scooter starts and runs suggests the alarm is ok.

[WD Forte]

The fault is intermittent and from what he says
it sounds like something is getting the weather in.
Temporarily seperating the alarm from the stock system is simple enough and part of the process of elimination.

It isn't a factory fitted device buried deep in the bowels of the scoot
requiring major surgery
He's had quite a few after market alarms, immobilisers and gps trackers fitted to his
delivery scoots over the past few years some even done by Fowlers
and they were all simple to defeat/disable/remove.
( I ought to go into the bike nickery business)

He mentioned the guy who fitted it said a few folk were having problems with them
a year or so on hence my asking about them.
I'll obviously know more when I get me grubby mitts on it.
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[P.]

Its a generic nasty cheap alarm, deterrent only.

Unplug the speaker first off, stops the neighbours complaining and yes, its literally unplug the speaker... great for theft.

You can just remove the power to the alarm, bet they have the blue/pink/grey wire wired in for remote start or immob, just fuck it right out of there.

Someone is going to steal it, just let it make noise first, I never wired mine into the indicator lights, just power > speaker and set sensitivity to 3 out of 5. Any nudges set it off, it has no LED showing its alarmed, it scares people off.

Silly to trust a £30 alarm to immob, remote start AND alarm, just use it as the alarm and strip the rest out.

Bet its all wedged in with scotch locks too

[WD Forte]

Thanks for the replies
In the end it never came here
I wasn't really that interested in sorting it and on my advice
he took it back to the guys who supplied and fitted it in the first place.
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