Mechanical Devices:
Attach to the steering wheel, steering column, gearshift, or a wheel of the vehicle. They provide a basic level of protection from
the amateur thief, but present little challenge to a professional, and may actually increase the level of tension and danger during
a carjacking.
Kill Switches:
Are hidden switches that allow the owner to disable the starter or fuel system. They give basic theft protection from amateurs,
but are easily defeated by a knowledgeable thief and offer no personal protection.
Tracking Devices:
These hidden transmitters are activated by police to track and locate stolen vehicles. They offer good recovery results against
low-level car thieves, but can be quickly disabled by high-tech professionals. The latest
generation of tracking systems incorporate satellite tracking locators and electronic kill switches, but require a permanent
vehicle cellular phone and a monthly monitoring fee.
Full Featured Remote Systems:
Today’s remotely controlled keyless entry and security systems offer the most efficient and affordable protection. They
incorporate security technology that defeats the most sophisticated thieves, and personal protection and convenience for you
and your loved ones. However, many essential security features have just become available. For example, most factory installed
keyless entry and aftermarket alarm systems offer no protection from today’s professional thieves, who use transmitter code
grabbers to steal your vehicle.
Security System Essentials
Your best investment in vehicle security is to install or upgrade to a system that has the following:
Automatic Transmitter Verification:
today’s most sophisticated thieves know that all keyless entry and security systems have the ability to learn to respond to up to
four remote transmitters. With a moment alone in your vehicle they can add their transmitter to work your system. This feature
signals you every time you turn on the ignition key by flashing an LED light to indicate the number of active transmitters. If an
additional, unauthorized, transmitter has been added, an audible signal warns you of the change, allowing you to reset the
system and defeat the thief.
Code Erase: this feature defeats code grabbing thieves by changing the transmitter code and erasing it forever after each
transmission, and never using the same code again.
Remotely Controlled Personal Panic Button sounds alarm from a distance up to 200 feet from the vehicle, and functions even
from inside the vehicle with the engine running to deter carjacking attempts.
Passive Arming Feature activates the system automatically if the owner forgets.
Starter Disable Feature makes starting the vehicle impossible