Having your mini stolen is a gut-wrenching experience that we wouldn't wish on our worst enemy. All of your hard work, time, effort, and creativity are gone in a flash, and no insurance settlement can make up for that. A standard car alarm can only protect your mini from a lower class of thieves, mainly amateurs. This is because a car alarm with a starter disable circuit can easily be defeated in just a few minutes with the right tools and knowledge. Most car alarms disable the starter through the use of a relay, which interrupts the starter solenoid wire that runs from the ignition switch in the cab of your truck to the starter itself in the engine compartment.
Because the starter disable relay is usually mounted underneath the dash, it can easily be located and bypassed by a professional car thief, thus reducing the alarm to nothing more than a noisemaker. That is unless your truck is equipped with the PowerLock auto security system. The PowerLock is the first system to eliminate any possibility of thieves hot-wiring your mini.
The system is permanently connected to your truck's starter motor and cannot be bypassed by a thief. Even if a thief had the time to jack your truck up off of the ground, they could not remove the PowerLock module from the starter motor after you've installed it. This is as good as it gets for protection from hot-wiring. In addition to the added protection afforded by the PowerLock system, Ultimate Security Systems Corporation provides a $10,000 lifetime antitheft guarantee. In this article, we visited Traders 2000 to watch as it installed the PowerLock system on an '01 Nissan Frontier. For more information, contact the companies listed in the source box.
This is everything you'll receive when you open up the box to your PowerLock system, including the optional keyless entry system. The heart of the system is that shiny silver module in the foreground of the picture. That is the module that will disable the starter and prevent anyone from hot-wiring your mini.
The crew from Traders 2000 began by unscrewing and removing the lower dash panel from the Frontier.
With the driver side of the dash partially disassembled, Traders was able to start the process of installing the LED for the system. A pilot hole was drilled into a blank panel on the dash paneling.
Once it was determined that the LED would fit, it was permanently pressed into the panel. | 
The only wire connections to make were for 12-volt power and ground connections. These connections can be made in plain view behind the dash because it will do no good for a thief to tamper with them. |
This signal wire will be run from the brain of the PowerLock system to the module at the starter. | 
The signal wire was routed through the engine compartment and down to the starter motor. |
The wire was plugged into the module prior to the module being attached to the starter motor. On the other end of the module was a wire that would be spliced into the starter solenoid wire. | 
The starter solenoid wire was unbolted from the solenoid and connected to the input wire on the PowerLock module. |
Although difficult to see, the PowerLock module was pushed onto the starter solenoid post where the old wire was bolted. One-way locking jaws held the module to the post and prevents it from being removed. The module operates the starter solenoid once it receives a signal from the brain of the PowerLock system. The system also features a valet mode to deactivate the system for parking attendants or your mechanic. | |