Viper 3106v car alarm system and an added perimeter sensor. Should run you about $260 to $300 installed. Your Jeep will be protected even with the top down.

I have a perimeter sensor on my motorcycle alarm. It's really just to keep people from sitting on it. I'd expect the same amount of protection in the Jeep, just a deterrent for non-thieves.

I've had a car alarm with proximity sensor on a convertible before. Biggest pain in the ass ever. Lifetstyle man.....lol. When is the last time you guys heard any car alarm going off, and you were on high alert for some thief? Nope, what happens is car alarm goes off.....and everyone around is "turn that shit off please!!!!" :rotflmao: I really don't think that alarms are a big deterrent to theft.......it just means a thief has to work a bit quicker, and a thief pretty much has to assume any car these days is armed with at least a factory alarm. It's not like the old days where only certain cars were armed and then they'd have real reason to pass that one up for something easier.

The only difference is I have an onboard camera so when the car alarm goes off the camera starts recording. It was an extra $150 but it also records front and rear so if I'm ever involved in an accident its on film.

Just chiming in that my experience is don't leave anything valuable in it and just leave stuff unlocked. I learned the hard way when some lame-o (in SoCal) broke into my locked center console and glovebox breaking both. Neither had anything actually in them. They remained broken until I sold that TJ.

Made me so mad because I didn't actually have anything locked in them! Oh well. By the way. If you need to hide a few small items the rollbars behind your seat above your head and passenger seat make a great place nobody would ever look........