Factory Fitted Alarm System - Category 1 or 2?

[S4 OXON]

I've had a good car insurance quote - one of the conditions is that the car is fitted with a Thatcham Category Two Immobiliser. Is the standard S4 alarm Category 1 or 2? Rather than buy a category 2 immobiliser....

[TWH]

I know that the RS4 alarm is top whack Thatcham cat1 alarm system, and I would have thought the S4 would have the same, but I'm sure that it will no doubt have a cat2 immobiliser at the very least. Your insurance company should be able to check anyway.

It was a broker that told me the RS4 alarm was listed as cat1 and that I should always declare it as that rather than a factory fitted alarm since some companies don't look at the thatcham listings!

http://www.thatcham.org/resources/pdfs/compliance.pdf

Looking at the link above, it seems that the S4 is listed in the category2 section (p19) - only an imobiliser, whereas the RS4 is in category1 (p7)

Hope this helps

[S4 OXON]

called in at audi and he said if it's got a swicth on the drivers door then it's cat 1 so will go with that ! and one company has told us its cat 1 just like to know for sure before in tell them