Installing a remote starter without cutting factory wires?

[CTScott]

Originally Posted by Tamago

so you basically don't have any sort of security built in to the alarms you install? without cutting the ignition wire, all your alarm is is a noise maker.. thief jumps in and drives away because you didn't use an the ignition kill circuit?

My Yaris doesn't have an alarm, but it does have the engine immobilizer, which uses the tansponder key. This is basically the same thing as having an ignition kill switch. The column is still locked without the key as well.

All of these things are easily bypassed by a car theif who knows what he is doing. I don't think that the remote starter makes the car any easier to steal though.