How to interpret the chirps and parking light flashes
When you use the remote control, the system responds with chirps (unless the chirp muting
feature is turned on) and parking light flashes. These chirp/flash acknowledgments mean:
Chirps and flashes
Meaning
1
Your system is disarmed or you have remotely exited valet mode (see page 16)
2
Your system is armed or you have remotely engaged valet mode (see page 16)
2 and then 4
Armed but there is a door open (if there was a 5-sec. delay) or the sensor is
malfunctioning (if there was a 10-sec. delay) (see Smart AutoTesting on page 19)
3
Disarmed but there was an intrusion attempt while you were away
(see Smart prior intrusion attempt on page 20)
4
Armed but the hood or trunk is ajar (see Smart AutoTesting on page 19)
5
20-seconds to engine shutdown: enter your disarming code IMMEDIATELY
AntiScan™
Thieves can disarm some other brands of car alarms with a “scanner” that rapidly
transmits one remote control code after another. Clifford’s AntiScan will detect any
scanner and block the codes it generates.
Anti-CodeGrabbing™ (ACG) with Random Code Encryption
A Clifford exclusive that protects you and your automobile from the most effective and
onerous car stealing device ever used by car thieves — a code-grabber. Code-grabbers
are far more effective and efficient than scanning. Unlike scanners that sequentially
transmit one digital code after another until they hit the correct code to disarm the alarm
(a process that may take minutes to years depending on the system’s total number of
codes), code-grabbers literally record, from hundreds of feet away, the code sent by your
car alarm remote control. Then the thief simply plays back the code when you’re gone,
instantly disarming the alarm and unlocking the doors. It’s like giving the thief your car
keys. Non-Clifford alarms can be defeated that easily. In contrast, IntelliGuard IQ Series
systems use complex digital signal processing and unbreachable encryption to randomly
change the digital code every time you use the remote control. Your remote will never
transmit the same code twice, and the control unit will never accept the same code
twice. Thus the code recorded and played back by the thief’s code-grabber will never be
accepted by your IntelliGuard 900-IQ. Only ACG can make a car alarm impervious to
code-grabbing, and only Clifford systems have ACG with Random Code Encryption.
Tamper-proof ignition immobilization
While armed, the system assures that your vehicle is completely immobilized by
automatically locking out the ignition system. That means that a thief won’t be able to
start the engine even if he had a duplicate of your car key. Even if he were to find the
system control unit and tear it out of your vehicle, he still would not be able to start your
car’s engine!
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