“My truck has never been broken into because of the Auto Bolt system! This is not to say they have not tried. They have but your system has always kept them out! I will continue to recommend your system to anyone that wants to protect their vehicle against theft.” Glen Miller, Michigan
“On August 8, 2009, I was shopping at a local Target store in Houston, TX and after an hour of being inside the store I walked out to the parking lot only to find that someone attempted to break into my 2005 Ford F-250. I quickly noticed that the driver side door handle was damaged, the lock pin was up in the unlock position but all of my doors were still closed and locked. It was your product, the Auto-Bolt that saved my belongings and my truck from being stolen.” Stephen Durrett, Texas
Endorsed by Antonio Ibarra Jr. – President, Hudson Valley Emergency Outfitters
The link will send you to a youtube video of channel 7 investigative report regarding vehicle door deadbolts. The Auto-Bolt deadbolts were utilized along with an aalrm module to produce what then was called the Vault2000 security system. The Auto-Bolts remain the same (excluding the current upgrades) deadbolts and will be sold in the very near future as a four bolt kit (MSRP $299.95 usd). A four bolt kit will do all the doors on a work van or if applied to family sedans (you really only need to do the front two doors in most cases) the kit is enough to do two family vehicles. copy & paste the youtube link and see for yourself!
Preventing entry into your vehicle via deadbolt locks is the future of car alarms, keyless entry, GPS tracking, vehicle locator’s, immobilizers, etc. By not allowing vehicle doors to be open by the thieves, a vehicle door deadbolt becomes the favored layer of protection to protect your vehicle from burglary and becoming a stolen vehicle statistic.
Think of it this way, a thief slim-jims a factory door lock linkage and unlocks the factory lock. He grabs the door handle and releases the factory latch…but…the door won’t open, it appears to be stuck closed. After a couple of strong tugs on the handle, the thief much now consider whether to stick around and break a window out or find another target.
If he breaks the window out, it doesn’t mean that the door will open (remember the invisible deadbolt is still engaged and preventing the door from opening). They (thief) must consider the idea of laying in a seat with all the broken glass to attempt to start the vehicle and drive it off or carry on with the removal of accessories, not an exciting idea for a thief (besides the evidence of being in the vehicle would be all over them if apprehended).
It appears that having to lay in the glass and/or eliminating a fast means of egress (back out through the broken window since the dead bolted door cannot be opened from the inside) would pose a greater threat to deterring a theft than screeching sirens have in the past.
Car Alarms Do Not Prevent Car Theft Studies done by unbiased car insurance companies who wish to conduct objective scientific research to determine the effectiveness of car alarms showed that car alarms do nothing to stop car theft.
I wish I had bookmarked the blog that this quote came from. It is not a surprise to anyone who looks at the stats for auto theft, which fluctuates up and down by small percentage points each year but has remained over 1 million vehicles per year in the US for many years now. Perhaps a different approach to the whole idea of vehicle security needs to be considered. It should be obvious to anyone that if you change a vehicle to the ground and post an armed guard to protect it, that would not prevent its theft IF a thief wanted it bad enough. Could anything really be protected that well that must by necessity sit out in the public streets, parking lots, city garages, etc.? IF you could, would it be a reasonable cost to implement? No ne wants to spend more then a vehicle is worth to prevent it from being stolen or burglarized.
There is a game changer in the vehicle security market, that in and of itself is a “layer” of added protection that it implemented to prevent anyone but the holder of the remote control from opening the vehicle doors. That is what is known as vehicle door deadbolts that are layered in with your current alarm or key-less entry.
The current application is aimed more toward the owners/companies with work vans/trucks that carry expensive tools, equipment, or customers valuable and irreplaceable property that they me be transporting from their place of business to the job site or to their customers.
Preventing the thief from opening the doors of a vehicle goes a long way to protect your property, your vehicle, and its content, which is the main purpose of vehicle security.
http://www.allhawaiinews.com/2009/03/honolulu-car-alarms-leaf-blowers.html HONOLULU — Car alarms, leaf blowers, construction. Neighborhood bars. Motorcycles. Noise pollution is a big problem on Oahu, and every year lawmakers try to do something about it. And every year, they fail.“Loud late-night noise continues to polarize our community. Residents want a healthy neighborhood, one that includes them being able to sleep in their own homes at night,” said Susan Lebo, a resident of Chinatown Gateway Plaza in testimony.Recognizing the futility of trying to pass a law, Sen. Carol Fukunaga and other senators have created a resolution instead. SCR 62 tackles car alarms by requesting vehicle owners to turn them off or make them less sensitive.
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This is a scenario playing out across America especially in urban areas where the sirens go unattended and echo off the buildings and throughout the streets and alleyways. New York for example has been trying for years to put a top to the seemingly endless whine of car alarms shooting through the silence of the night and as annoying as a baby that is in physical discomfort who is continuously crying. Add to this displeasure the fact that it is often during the wee hours of the morning preventing any kind of restful sleep for you!
Trying to scare off thieves with sound is so passe” that no one pays any attention to them except our victim trying to sleep through the night. However, car alarms can be and are good when layered with a silent system like a vehicle deadbolt that doesn’t make any noise except the reassuring click of engagement and prevents the thief from opening your vehicle’s doors at the same time. Most good car alarms have remote transmitters with good amount of range, they immobilize your ignition circuit preventing the thief from jumping in and knocking out the steering column lock and starting it with a screwdriver and running it off to a chop shop.
So let’s not ban the car alarm for attempting to do what it is not designed to do anymore and begin using it as a “layer” of protection coupled with real, solid protection against entry into your vehicle. car alarm-(minus) siren+ vehicle deadbolt = real vehicle security and green to boot!
Welcome ! Thanks for joining us in the world of fun, facts, and fallacies in the world of vehicle security. Vehicle theft and burglaries have been relatively steady over the years (over a million stolen every year). There is a new layer of protection about to be introduced to the market that will be a game changer. It’s no secret that as the economy weakens, the rate of crime increases. However, there are ways to make it more difficult for the bad guys to find you and your property as a target and that is the purpose of this blog. To get the information out that will allow you as an individual or a company to be more proactive and less a victim of vehicle theft.
One of the most effective ways of preventing a theft or burglary of a vehicle is by preventing entry into the vehicle in the first place! That’s not rocket science, just common sense. As consumers we have relied on either scaring the offender away by making noise and hopefully attracting attention to them..or…try to prevent the bad guy from starting the vehicle and driving it away, to either strip it, joy ride, or sell it to a chop shop. Although these methods or devices do the job they were intended to do, what’s wrong with this scene? It’s trying to protect your property (vehicle) after it has already been broken into…sorry…too late! If there is a way to prevent the thief from opening the doors, then maybe you stand a chance of keeping your vehicle in one piece.
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So what’s wrong with just locking your doors? Ever heard of a slim-jim? a tool that is used to unlock your factory locked doors in a few seconds? Obviously so has the thief or in the case of a work van or truck, the thief just sticks a screw driver through the sheet metal of the door next to the lock and with a flip of the wrist, unlocks the door. Some of you may have learned how to open a door with power doorlocks with a tennis ball (as shown on youtube). So the strongest protection (locks) to keep our doors shut are easily and quickly by-passed and gives ready access to the interior of your vehicle to a thief.
Is there a better method of preventing entry into our vehicles? That will be answered in the next blog entry but let me give you a hint: What does virtually every house have on its frontdoor? (and what do bank vault doors have all around their edge?)