Love Hate Relationship

I have a love/hate relationship with my Subaru. It’s a cute little Forester. Replaced my die-on-me all the time minivan. It’s peppy. It’s rated as a safe car with side airbags. Decent gas mileage but not great. Knock on wood…Subaru vehicles are known for not having many problems. I’ll get into a full review on why a woman should and should not buy this car on some later post.

But thing that bugs me no end?? It came with “theft deterrent” or that thingie that if someone would break in a window the vibrations from that would set off the car alarm. Well, okay. I wouldn’t have paid extra for it, but it came with the normal car alarm/remote entry. So WHY does that annoy me?? Well, you see we’ve been having thunderstorms all week. When we get big cracks of shaking thunder or lightening…it sets off my car alarm. :wallbash: I have to crawl out of bed, search in my purse for my keys…or if I’m really lucky…discover I left my purse downstairs so I get to run through the house and find where I left my purse. Find the remote, click it, to turn off the alarm. By now my neighbors are SO glad they live next to me… :mad2:

If I think of it, and they are predicting storms, I lock the car the old fashioned way…you know, by manually switching the locks and shutting the doors. Then no car alarm–equals no middle of the night annoying the neighbors.

I asked at the Subaru dealer what they could do, was there an adjustment to turn it down? No. Can they turn it off? No. Unless I want to lose my whole car alarm system. Well, isn’t that special? Oh, and it also happens sometimes when SuperGuy is washing the car and cleaning the wheels. Honk. Honk. Honk.

So while this is a cute, peppy little car…and gets us out of our neighborhood even during nasty snow storms…it has a few MAJOR design flaws. Like this one. My neighbors aren’t too keen on the alarm system either.

I should really bake some cookies or something and go apologize to my neighbors…