Our Security & Anti-Theft section brings together reviews, comparisons and practical buying guides to help you find the right products for your vehicle, whatever your budget.
The call nobody wants to make is the one that starts with your car not being where you left it. A tracker does not prevent theft, and no honest guide should pretend it does — what it buys is the next ten minutes: a live dot on a map, a direction of travel, and something
A car alarm is supposed to do two things: make a thief choose another car, and let the owner in without a key. The systems that fail at the first job are the ones that false-alarm at every passing truck, and the systems that fail at the second are the ones whose remotes die, whose
A car alarm that nobody hears is decoration, and a remote start that only works from the driveway is a toy. The buyers who come to this tier usually have a concrete problem: a car that was broken into, a long cold walk to a frozen car, or a vehicle that sits where nobody watches
A car alarm that only makes noise is not protection, and a thief knows it. The alarms that actually deter theft do three things: sense the intrusion, kill the starter, and tell you, loudly and unmistakably, that something is happening. The trap at this ceiling is the fake alarm: a blinking LED with no sensor,
How we researched this guide We compared 6 keyless-entry products: 3 vehicle kits and 3 home/garage products. We checked 7 manuals and maker pages: the Viper manual and Crutchfield listing, the EASYGUARD manual, the Schlage Encode page and manual, the Yale manual, and the myQ user guide. We reviewed 10+ owner sources: owner write-ups, listing