TOP-15 car alarms

Car owners want to protect themselves from possible problems associated with the misappropriation of their vehicles. In order to protect vehicles, you can build a major garage with strong gates and several reliable locks or keep the car in a guarded parking lot, or you can do it easier - put a car alarm. Our editors have analyzed the best car alarms sold on the Russian market and are presenting a comparative rating.

Criteria for choosing the best car alarm

A car alarm is a technical device consisting of several elements (blocks) interconnected by wires or a radio channel, providing remote monitoring and control (within direct visibility or at a sufficient distance) of the vehicle in order to prevent unlawful seizure of it by third parties and / or damage.

The production of car alarms and accessories is now carried out by the following manufacturers:

• Alligator
• Alfa;
• Boomerang;
• BRUIN;
• Cenmax
• Centurion;
• Davinci;
• Insider;
• Jaguar;
• KGB
• Leopard
• Mongoose
• Pandect;
• Pandora;
• Prizrak;
• Pharaon;
• Scher-Khan;
• Sheriff;
• StarLine
• SKY
• TOMAHAWK;
• Micro Line.

Prices for the simplest models start at 1,500 rubles. The most expensive items can be sold at a cost above 200,000 rubles. Most of the goods are in the middle price category (from 5,000 to 15,000 rubles).

The owner of the vehicle can choose a car alarm based on one or a combination of the following key factors:

• value for money;
• just the price;
• brand name (manufacturer);
• the presence or absence of a particular model on sale at the time of the selection;
• ratio of the number of positive reviews to negative according to the aggregate data of aggregators;
• reviews of reviewers of automotive equipment and accessories, the advantages and disadvantages of specific models, reflected in them.

One of the cheapest alarms

Also, a citizen can make a choice based on technical characteristics, namely:

• alarm class - with one-way communication or with feedback;
• the presence or absence of telematics (GSM, GPS);
• the presence and number of security functions, such as auto-arming the car, anti-robbery, perimeter security, engine blocking, silent security, immobilizer mode, security with a working engine, etc .;
• the presence and number of service functions, such as remote start of the motor vehicle engine, search for vehicles in the parking lot (parking), auto glass winder, turbo timer, zone shutdown, etc .;
• range of action;
• the presence or absence of sensors necessary for the motorist - tilt, shock, movement;
• type of batteries from which the keychain feeds, and their quantity;
• type of signal coding - interactive or dynamic.

Before deciding which alarm system with auto start is best to put on your car, you should also take into account other technical characteristics that are crucial for a particular motorist.

Rating of the best car alarms in 2019

Before deciding which alarm is better to put on your car, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the TOP-10 rating, which is listed below:

Tomahawk 9.7

The best low-cost car alarms

An alarm system with a wide range of functions can be purchased even with the amount of up to 2000 rubles on hand. It is enough to familiarize yourself with the lower price range of car alarms below and select the appropriate model:

Good protection up to 20 thousand rubles.

In the price range from 18,000 to 20,000 rubles, you can buy a fairly good “signalization” with an expanded set of functions.

We present the rating of TOP-5 excellent models according to our editors:

Starline A94 2CAN GSM Slave

Unique and expensive

In the market, in addition to budget and mid-cost segment models, unique and expensive devices for cars are also available, the cost of which starts at 30,000 rubles.

Most of them are produced by the following manufacturers:

• Pandora;
• Prizrak;
• Starline

Here are 3 of the best models:

Prizrak 8HCL

Best two-way alarms and security systems

Most models of the best car alarms with auto start have two-way communication. It is recommended to purchase just such “signaling”, because the motorist will always see on the key fob screen which zone worked, and give the necessary command, for example, turn off the siren. In the event of the acquisition of a one-way signaling system, it will be possible to learn about the unlawful actions of third parties only in the immediate vicinity of your car.

Feedback keychain

Security complexes are devices equipped with the maximum number of security and service functions.

The best choice will help to make the following TOP:

ALLIGATOR M-425

The best telematic car alarms

When choosing an alarm with auto start, it is worth taking a closer look at the so-called telematic devices.

SCHER-KHAN UNIVERSE 2

Telematics refers to an alarm system that protects the vehicle using telematic communication channels - namely, GPS or GSM. Management, as a rule, is carried out not with the help of a key fob, but through a mobile application downloaded for free on the manufacturer’s website.

Prices for these security complexes usually start at 10,000. We will present the TOP-5 of the best of them:

StarLine M96M

Using any of the indicated alarms from the phone, the car owner can at any time give a command to arm or disarm, look at the map where his car is now located, track what route the vehicle has traveled over a certain period, etc.