The car knows what you already wear.
LockCar IC3262 keeps the engine blocked until it finds one of your paired devices nearby. A smart watch, a smart ring or a keyfob tag releases it automatically. Your phone stays the master control. You set the rules, and only you can change them.
Recognition range you set yourself, anywhere from 1 to 5 metres.
The phone is not one of the automatic keys. It is the master: it configures the module and releases it by hand.
Your key can be relayed through your front door.
A relay attack breaks nothing. It carries the signal from your key on the hall table out to the street, and the car believes you are standing beside it. The alarm stays quiet, the factory immobiliser agrees, the car leaves.
IC3262 adds a second lock the thief cannot interrogate, if you are still deciding between the different types of aftermarket system, our car immobiliser guide compares relay, CAN bus and proximity methods side by side It is looking for something you wear, and it will not release the engine until it finds it, at the distance you decided on.
Two roles, deliberately kept apart.
IC3262 separates the thing that commands the system from the things that release it. That separation is the whole security model.
Watch, ring and tag release the engine
These are the only devices the module searches for on its own. When one of them is inside your chosen range, the circuit closes and you drive. You touch nothing, you open nothing, you carry nothing extra.
The phone commands and releases by hand
The app is where you pair devices, set the range and change every rule. It can also release the immobiliser, but only when you open it and do it deliberately. The module never looks for your phone by itself.
Pair from the app
Open the master app, add your watch, ring or tag, and save it to the module’s own memory. Add as many as your edition allows.
Set your own range
One metre if you want release only when you are actually in the seat. Five metres if you want the car ready as you walk up. Change it whenever you like.
Get in and drive
The module finds your device, closes the circuit, shows green. If it finds nothing, the circuit stays open and the engine will not turn over.
Why your phone is never an automatic key.
Phones stay in the car – on seats, in cup holders, or door pockets. If proximity alone unlocked the engine, whoever held the phone would control the vehicle and its settings. To prevent theft, the app requires you to unlock your phone and explicitly approve access. Conversely, smartwatches and rings stay attached to your body, making them secure enough to operate automatically.
Four keys. Three of them find the car on their own.
Pair whatever you already wear, and keep a tag on the keyring as a backup. Nothing here is compulsory. You choose which of the four you actually use.
The smart watch
It has been on your wrist since breakfast. You get in, you start, and nothing else happens. The watch authorised the car while you were still taking your headphones out.
The smart ring
A sleep or heart-rate ring becomes the quietest key ever made. You never take it off, so you can never leave it in the other coat. It works under a glove.
The keyfob tag
For drivers who want no gadgets at all. It goes on the keyring and stays there. A physical on/off button lets you switch the authorisation off before you hand the keys to a garage.
The phone, your master control
Pair and remove devices, set the range, switch on valet mode, read the authorisation log, hold your backup PIN. It will also release the immobiliser by hand when you ask it to, never on its own.
Nobody sets this up for you.
The module ships with sensible defaults and then gets out of the way. Every rule below is yours to change from the app, as often as you want, without calling anyone.
Which devices count
Add or remove a watch, ring or tag at any time. Keep one, keep six, keep none and drive on the app alone.
How close is close enough
Anywhere from 1 to 5 metres, in half-metre steps. Tight for a car you never want releasing early, wide for wet supermarket car parks.
Automatic or fully manual
Turn automatic recognition off entirely and release the car from the app every time. Some owners prefer exactly that.
Who else can drive it
Pair a partner’s watch, a second tag for a son or daughter, or hand out a valet release that expires on its own.
What happens at the garage
Switch the tag off with its button, or put the car in service mode from the app and revoke it the moment you collect it.
Your fallback
Keep a backup PIN in the app for the day everything is flat. You are never locked out of your own car.
Four ordinary mornings.
The best security system is the one you stop noticing. Here is what IC3262 looks like on a normal day.
The runner
Back from a run, the watch still counting his pulse. He opens the door, sits down, starts the car. The watch authorised it from three metres away while he was still pulling his headphones out.
He never took his phone out of his pocket. He didn’t have a pocket.
The ring
She wears a sleep-tracking ring. It has not come off in eight months. No fob, no remote, nothing in her hands at all, and she is still the only person alive who can start that car.
Her key spends the winter under a glove.
The tag, switched off
He drops the car in for a service and presses the button on his tag. The light goes out, the authorisation goes with it, and the car becomes a very nice piece of parked metal. One press when he collects it and everything is back.
He can hand anyone the keys. Not the authorisation.
The one who tries
Someone relays the key signal and opens the door. They sit down and press start. The dashboard lights up and nothing else happens. The module is looking for a device that person does not have and cannot guess exists.
He got in. That was the whole of it.
One module. Four ways to live with it.
Every edition is the same IC3262 hardware running the same firmware, and every edition includes the master app. What changes is which key you drive with, and that is a decision about you, not about the car.
| Master phone only | Tag the classic | Watch the future | Ring the far future | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Master app, full configuration | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Manual release from the phone | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Automatic release | none | keyfob tag | watch | ring |
| Range you set yourself, 1 to 5 m | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Devices you can pair | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Tags in the box | − | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Editions can be changed later. Adding a watch or a ring to a Tag installation is a licence and a pairing, not a new module.
What’s in the box, and what the module does.
- Radio
- Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2
- Proximity threshold
- 1 to 5 m, 0.5 m steps
- Supply
- 12 V, standby under 8 mA
- Release time
- under 2 s from detection
- Engine block
- relay on a circuit chosen at fitting
- Tag battery
- CR2032, around 10 months
- App
- Android 9+ / iOS 14+
- Operating temperature
- −30 °C to +80 °C
- Module size
- 62 × 38 × 14 mm
- Fitting
- hidden, inside the cabin
In the box: the IC3262 module, a wiring harness with connector, keyfob tags according to your edition, the fitting guide and your pairing card. Fitted by an approved installer.
The questions everyone asks.
Why can’t my phone unlock the car automatically?
Because a phone stays with the car. It sits in the cup holder or the door pocket, and if it were an automatic key, anyone holding it would hold the car. It is also where your settings live. The app releases the immobiliser only when you deliberately open it and choose to.
What if my watch battery dies?
Pair more than one device. Most owners run a watch or ring as the daily key and keep a tag on the keyring as a backup. A tag runs close to a year on one cell. Beyond that, every edition includes a backup PIN in the app.
Can I turn automatic recognition off completely?
Yes. Set the module to manual and it will only ever release from the app. Nothing about IC3262 is fixed. The settings are yours.
Will it drain my car battery?
It’s designed to shut down after the car is stopped
Can someone clone my Bluetooth device?
Pairing is encrypted and the module ignores unsolicited connection requests. Release does not depend on a signal that can be relayed from a distance. The paired device has to actually be inside the range you set.
What happens if I walk out of range while driving?
Nothing. Presence is checked when the engine starts, never while the car is moving. A system that cut the engine on the road would be dangerous and we do not build it that way.
Will it affect my manufacturer warranty?
Fitting is non-invasive and reversible, on accessible circuits, with no modification to the factory ECU. Confirm with your dealer before fitting if the car is still under warranty.
Can I move it to my next car?
Yes. It is removed, refitted and re-paired. Your devices stay yours.
Where do you fit the IC3262?
Fitting is mobile, at your home or workplace. Most of our work is around Birmingham, and we also cover Sutton Coldfield and Walsall. If you are outside the West Midlands, check the national car immobiliser page for coverage and current lead times.
Pick the key you want to drive with.
Prices include the module, the harness and the master app. Fitting is quoted separately by your approved installer, and we cover Birmingham and the towns around it, including Sutton Coldfield and Walsall.
LockCAR IC3262 Master
For drivers who want to release the car themselves, every time.
- Full configuration app
- Manual release from the phone
- Backup PIN
- No automatic recognition
LockCAR IC3262 Tag
For drivers who want nothing to learn and nothing to charge.
- Everything in Tag
- Automatic release by keyfob
- Physical on/off button
- Valet and service modes
LockCar IC3262 Watch
For drivers who already wear the key on their wrist.
- Everything in Watch
- Automatic release by smart watch
- Status widget on the watch face
- 2 paired devices
LockCAR C3262 Ring
For drivers who want the key to disappear entirely.
- Everything in Ring
- Automatic release by smart ring
- Second cut channel
- Free hands
- 2 paired devices
The best key is the one you never look for.
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