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Clifford Concept 40 Owner's Manual

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  • Page 1 World-Class Auto Security concept Owner's Manual...
  • Page 2 All Concept Series systems are covered by one or more of the following Clifford Electronics patents: 4,158,874; 4,233,642; 4,327,444; 4,383,242; 4,430,685; 4,845,464; 4,887,064; 4,890,108; 4,922,224; 4,997,053; 5,081,667; 5,146,215; 5,157,375 and other patents...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Standard Features of the Concept 4O ....3 Welcome ....... . 9 Your 4-button/12-channel remote controls .
  • Page 4 Table of Contents How to interpret the LED status indicator ....16 Automatic Battery-Saving Mode ....16 Remote controlled sensor adjustments .

  • Page 5: Standard Features Of The Concept 4O

    UltraSecure Coded Valet Mode™ your Concept 40 like they can all other brands of alarms. Remote Controlled Valet Mode Entry and Exit button on your remote control from up to 100 feet away, you can enter or exit valet mode.
  • Page 6 User-Selectable Headlight Reminder the headlights after you park your vehicle. If your vehicle already has this feature, you may turn off Concept 40’s Headlight Reminder. —Whenever you remotely arm or disarm, Dual-Mode “Chirp” Silencing the siren “chirps” and the parking lights flash to confirm system status.
  • Page 7 Built-In Parking Light Flasher status. Remote Controlled Courtesy Lighting convenience, when you remotely disarm your Concept 40, the interior lights turn on and stay on until you start the engine or 30 seconds, whichever occurs first. Remote Door Locking/Unlocking with Built-in Relays with keys in the dark or bad weather! A press of a button on the remote control simultaneously arms your system and locks your vehicle’s power...
  • Page 8 Patented Smart AutoTesting™ and sensors every time you remotely arm and warns you if you accidentally arm your Concept 40 system with the hood or trunk open. If there is a genuine trigger or sensor malfunction, the system will specifically identify the problem, thereby eliminating time-consuming and costly trouble-shooting.
  • Page 9 But the entire electronic circuitry of the Concept 40 siren and all of its components have been designed into the underdash control unit.
  • Page 10 — Just a few flicks of a switch Patented Remote Control Code Learning lets you match to the system up to 4 different 12-channel Clifford remote controls. Just as easily, a lost or stolen remote control can be deleted from the system memory.

  • Page 11: Welcome

    Clifford’s unique PlainView Coded Valet Switch ensures that no thief can turn off your Concept 40 like they can with all other car alarm brands. For total freedom from incorrectly adjusted sensors, there’s remote controlled adjustment of the system’s dual-zone radar sensor...

  • Page 12: Your 4-Button/12-Channel Remote Controls

    If this happens, repeatedly press the remote control button (this works better than holding the button down). The 4-button/12-channel remote control is the key to your system. It incorporates Clifford’s Anti-CodeGrabbing™ (ACG) technology for the ultimate protection against “code-grabbing”...

  • Page 13: What Each Button/Channel Does

    30 seconds or until you start the engine, whichever occurs first. Press button 3 (channel 3). Your Concept 40 system will arm or TO SILENTLY ARM OR DISARM disarm with all the indications noted above except for the chirp THE SYSTEM .

  • Page 14: How To Interpret The Chirps And Parking Light Flashes

    Press button 1 (channel 1) for 3 seconds. The parking lights will TO ACTIVATE THE PANIC flash repeatedly and the siren will blare for 30 or 60 seconds FEATURE ..(user-selectable), or until you press button 1 again to turn it off. If the ignition is on (indicating you are in the car), the doors will automatically lock to prevent an assailant from entering.

  • Page 15: Anti-Codegrabbing™ (Acg) With Random Code Encryption

    Thus the code recorded and played back by the thief’s code-grabber will never be accepted by your Concept 40. Only ACG can make a car alarm impervious to code-grabbing, and only Clifford systems have ACG with Random Code Encryption.

  • Page 16: Ultrasecure™ Valet Mode

    UltraSecure™ Coded Valet Mode Your secret valet code In seconds, thieves can disable all other alarm brands by hotwiring the ignition and flicking an easy to find “hidden” valet switch. Your system has safeguards that absolutely ensure a thief cannot enable the valet mode as a way of “turning off” your system. How? To enable valet mode, the driver must first enter a secret valet code on the PlainView switch.

  • Page 17: To Exit Valet Mode

    To exit valet mode 1. Turn the ignition switch to its “ON” position or start the engine. 2. Flick the switch back to its center position. The LED will turn off to confirm that the system is now in its normal operating mode. Setting your own secret valet code Since all Concept Series systems have the same factory-set code, it is highly advisable that you set your own valet code.

  • Page 18: Fact - False Alarm Control And Test

    User-selectable features on pages 20-24.) Selectable starter/ignition interrupt At the time of installation, you can select whether your Concept 40 interrupts the starter line or the ignition line. To verify which line is electronically interrupted, enter the vehicle, close the doors, arm the system while inside the vehicle, then try to start the engine.

  • Page 19: Remote Controlled Sensor Adjustments

    Due to ever-changing conditions, all alarms require periodic fine-tuning of their sensors. Other alarms require repeated trips back to the dealer. Not so with Concept 40. You can adjust sensitivity of each sensor zone electronically without tools and without even knowing...

  • Page 20: Smart Autotesting

    Authorized Clifford Dealer. If you accidentally armed with the hood, trunk or a door open, just close the open point and the system will again monitor that point.

  • Page 21: Smart Prior Intrusion Attempt Alert

    All the siren electronics are in the system control unit rather than the siren itself. This protects them from heat, dirt and exposure to the elements (other alarm companies’ sirens are far more susceptible to failure). Your Concept 40 also provides these additional features: QuietChirps™: You can control the volume of the normal arm and disarm...

  • Page 22: User-Selectable Features

    PlainView switch a few times. Once you’ve changed a few settings, you’ll find that programming Concept 40 is so easy that you can even do it while driving! The system comes with all of its features pre-programmed as noted by the bold type in the Table of user-selectable features on pages 23-24.

  • Page 23: Example 1

    EXAMPLE 1: Turn off Headlight Reminder: If you park your car and begin to exit while the headlights are still on, the Headlight Reminder feature is set to issue a warning sound to remind you to turn them off (see Headlight Reminder on page 13) To turn this feature off, you’ll note that “Headlight Reminder”...

  • Page 24: Adding New Remote Controls

    Clifford Dealer and program them into the system yourself. Each Concept 40 will respond to as many as four 12-channel remote controls. To add a new remote control to the system, use the procedures noted in the User-selectable features section on pages 20-24.

  • Page 25: Table Of User-Selectable Features

    The LED will illuminate. If it does not, the new code you programmed and the one you just entered do not match. The system has reverted to the previous code. © Copyright Clifford Electronics, Inc., 1994 Column 3 3rd latched...

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