I bought a 3G Eclipse a few years back that came with a Clifford car alarm. This thing has been acting up lately, and most recently it wouldn't let the car start, and was making some weird chirps and such. I don't know much about it, but it seems it might be a good idea to just disable it until I can get it looked at or replaced.

Under the steering column it has a duplex piezo sensor, which has an adjustible knob on it. I imagine this is a sensitivity adjustment of some sort? What exactly does this do? Should I simply adjust it to see if the problem goes away?

If I remove the fuses that go to the battery for the alarm, the car still will not start. So I also assume it has some form of ignition kill switch somewhere.

Anyways, any insight from the Car Alarm guru's would be helpful.

I can peer around under the hood to get any more details if you need.

Thanks,