Dear Ravelco – I do have a story that might interest you. When I bought my truck, a Dodge Ram Quad, in 2010 (online from Ebay) I had already decided that I would put in a Ravelco system since that seemed to be the best system available. The person from whom I purchased the truck lived about 60 miles away from me and he offered to deliver it so I accepted and it came right to my door! I phoned the Ravelco salesman and he said he could put in the Ravelco system the same day so by that evening the truck was already protected. Good thing too! Although I live in the country and I put the truck behind some trees where it could not be seen from the road, somebody tried to start it up during the night. The neighbors who lived behind me could see the truck although I could not. They said that whoever was working on the truck was busy for hours trying to start it. In the morning I was shocked to discover that the hood was open on the truck and the driver’s side door was open. The truck would not start but was otherwise OK apparently.
My neighbor came up to the fence and told me that somebody had been working on it for hours already. I asked him why he did not call me. He said he thought that I had hired that fellow to fix the vehicle. I said “In the middle of the night? Since when do I hire somebody to fix my vehicles in the middle of the night?” The neighbor said he thought it odd, too, but did not think to call me. I said it was a good thing that I already had a Ravelco system installed. I called Ravelco because the truck would not start and I thought it had something to do with the Ravelco. It was working fine the day before. The Ravelco rep came and looked at the truck. He discovered that the would-be thief had managed to blow a fuse. The Ravelco rep installed a new fuse and the truck started up just fine. There was no charge. Apparently although the thief had hours to work on the truck, he could not manage to defeat the Ravelco system. Several people have offered the possibility that the “thief” might have been the previous owner since he could still have had a key. Whoever it was, no permanent harm was done. However, I did have a cheap noisemaker alarm installed after this event as well so that if the same thing happened again, I would know about it and not have some guy working away in my yard all night without my knowledge! Thanks!
