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When buying a car you will obviously be cautious about its security. Here’s a checklist of items that secure you car from thefts and other breaches. Make sure your car isn’t lacking them:
Car alarms:
For those who don’t know about how a car alarm works; here’s an insight. The electronic sensors in the car alarms are designed to sense a breach of a vehicle such as breaking of glass, unauthorized entry or a sudden movement of the vehicle. If the system detects a threat, it immediately activates a siren operating at over 120dBs for alerting the car’s driver.
Price range: $39.99 to $549.99.
Mechanical and Electronic immobilizers:
A vehicle immobilizer is next-gen high-tech wizardry of an electronic device, that’s fortunately available at a reasonable price. Designed to restrict the access or movement of the vehicle, mechanical immobilizers are best known as door and ignition locks.
The conspicuous appearance of the mechanical immobilizers easily wards off amateur car thieves. The flaws of the mechanical immobilizers are visible only to professional car thieves. That is why, the policemen insist the car owners to install such devices as security systems.
Price range: $21.99 to $99.99(mechanical) and $149.95 to $199.99 (electronic).
Vehicle tracking:
Even if the thief succeeds to drive off with the car, the tracking technologies are designed to capture a criminal’s every move. The Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) technique utilized by the tracking technologies consists of scribing a vehicle’s identification code onto its windshield, rear window and side glass. As a result, the car thieves steer clear of etched vehicles because of their high cost of replacement and disposal of VIN-coded glass.
Price range: $19.95 for VIN etching to between $137.40 and $289.00 for electronic tracking.
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