Car, Bike, Boat, UTV, Golf Cart, Excavator, Humvee — One Fob Starts All of Them | Digital Guard Dawg Blog

Most people who buy a keyless ignition system buy a second one within a year.

The sequence is predictable: the hot rod gets push button start, and within a few months the bike feels antiquated, then the boat, then the UTV. Keys start to feel like something you used to put up with.

Here's what makes Digital Guard Dawg unusual — and it's a genuinely rare thing in this category:

A single Dawg Tag can be coded to operate every Digital Guard Dawg system you own.

Not one fob per vehicle. One fob, in one pocket, that starts the resto-mod, the motorcycle, the boat, the side-by-side, and the golf cart. A company that only builds automotive modules structurally cannot offer that, at any price.

The full ecosystem

Vehicle	System	Price
Cars — classic or modern	iKey Premier	$783
Classics with power accessories	PBS-II	$665
Classics, ignition only	PBS-I	$589
Cars with an existing alarm	PBS-X	$443
Motorcycles	KIM series	$269
Motorcycles — universal fit	DGD-KIM-U	$249
Boats	PBS-M	$469
ATV / UTV	PBS-MX / PBS-MXS	$299
Golf carts, 12–48V	GC12V	$299
Heavy equipment	AT-1H	$229
Small equipment / forklifts	AT-1S	$229
Class 8 trucks — 12V & 24V	AT-1C	$229
Emergency vehicles	AT-1E	$229
Fleet vehicles	AT-1FX	$229
Military — 24V Humvee	DGD-I-24	$199
Anything else with 12V	AT-1 / DGD-M1	$229 / $149

Prices as of July 2026.

12 volts. 24 volts. 48 volts. Gas and diesel. Wet, dusty, and salt-air environments. That voltage spread is the tell — it means genuinely different hardware, not one board with different labels.

Cars: classic to modern

The iKey Premier ($783) bundles passive keyless entry, push button start, a full alarm, an immobilizer, and optional remote start into one module. Fits almost any vehicle except 2012 and newer Mercedes-Benz.

For pre-1998 classics, the PBS systems were built for exactly that wiring: onboard 60A high-current relays on a 4oz copper chassis, 12-gauge bus-insulated wiring matched to the heavy ignition wiring already in the car, and internal MSD filtering circuitry for high-output ignition boxes.

DGD's PBS-II page lists Hennessey Performance, Revology Cars, Gateway Bronco and Ringbrothers among the builders using it.

Already own a Viper, CompuStar, Idatalink, Prestige, Omega, Code Alarm, Crimestopper, Excalibur, Avital or Automate system? The PBS-X ($443) adds RFID push button start on top — keep what you have.

Automotive systems →

Motorcycles: the one with dual-point immobilization

The KIM-P ($269) is plug-and-play and completely eliminates the factory ignition switch. Approach the bike, the system authenticates your Dawg Tag, flip the kill switch to ON, thumb the starter, go. Walk away and it arms automatically.

Here's the detail that separates it from a bike alarm: most alarms only lock out the starter circuit. The KIM-P provides dual-point immobilization — locking out both the ignition AND fuel circuits.

That matters because a starter-only lockout is defeated by rolling or push- starting the bike. Locking the fuel circuit too closes that door.

No wheel locks, no chains, no remembering to arm anything, and no false alarms.

Plug-and-play models cover a wide range of platforms (KIM-P, HD, HD2, HD3, HD100, IN, VI, SZ, TR, YH), and the KIM-U ($249) covers anything not on the list.

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Boats: built for salt air

The PBS-M ($469) fits any 12V marine ignition system, gas or diesel, non-CANbus.

The marine-specific engineering:

· Fully waterproof chrome-plated fobs — this is a fob that goes in the water and keeps working

· IP67-rated brushed stainless start button with a blue halo LED

· Engine immobilizer — the boat won't start without an authorized fob

DGD lists MasterCraft, Sea-Doo, Tracker Boats and Bayliner as common applications. Boats sit in marinas and on trailers, unattended, for weeks — an immobilizer that arms itself when you walk away is worth more here than almost anywhere else.

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ATV, UTV and golf carts: designed to get wet and dirty

PBS-MX / PBS-MXS — $299. Any 12V ATV or UTV. Explicitly designed for harsh, wet off-road environments: IP67 waterproof billet start button with an RGB status LED, chrome water-resistant fobs, dual-mode transmitters, and an emergency bypass code.

GC12V — $299. Golf carts from 12V to 48V, gas or electric — Club Car, Yamaha, E-Z-GO, Cushman. IP67 waterproof billet button.

That 12–48V range is a genuinely harder engineering problem than "fits 12V cars," and it's the reason a cart fleet and a hot rod can run on the same credential.

Golf carts are worth calling out: they're valuable, they sit in unlocked garages and cart barns, and most of them have an ignition switch a screwdriver defeats.

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Work fleets, heavy equipment and military

All the AT-1 systems are $229 and add operator management on top of theft prevention — each authorized operator carries a uniquely coded fob, and DGD's documentation describes establishing a driver management hierarchy granting specific individuals authority over specific machines.

The practical wins: an operator who isn't certified on a machine can't start it, and a departing employee's authorization is revoked instantly — something no key management scheme can do.

· AT-1H — excavators, loaders, dozers, cranes (Caterpillar, Komatsu, Volvo, John Deere)

· AT-1S — forklifts, balers, WAVs (Crown, Stihl, Heli, John Deere, Mitsubishi)

· AT-1C — Class 8 big rigs, 12V and 24V

· AT-1E — police, fire and ambulance, which are routinely left running and unattended

· DGD-I-24 — $199 — 24V military: M998, M1097, M151, M151A1, plug-and-play with no wires to cut

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The credential that ties it together

Every system above runs the same RFID platform: Texas Instruments® chipsets, DFDE (Dual Frequency ~ Dual Encryption), and over 6 billion unique codes.

That shared platform is what makes one fob work across all of it.

Dual-mode fobs — passive (walk up, it authorizes; walk away, it arms) and active (press when you want to). Replaceable lithium batteries, roughly a year of life. Spares run $42–79 depending on system.

Or wear it. The Watch Dawg ($199) hides the fob inside a wristwatch, in stainless or black anodized — compatible with DGD-KIM, DGD-M1, DGD-AT1, DGD-AT-1FX, PBS-M, PBS-MX, PBS-MXS, M24, GC12 and GC48. (Not the iKey Premier or PBS-I/II/X — those use the standard fob.)

Lost it? Every PBS and iKey system ships with an Emergency Bypass Card and a user-programmable PIN. Spares are $15.

Track it too. The Guard Dawg 4G Tracker ($314) comes in auto and motorcycle versions with two years of activation included, 2-minute updates, IP67, APMC deep-sleep power management, and geo-fence, after-hours, theft and tow alerts.

Why one company covers all of this

Digital Guard Dawg has been designing and manufacturing RFID vehicle security in the USA as a California corporation since 2006 — product pages carry "Proudly made in the USA" and "Proudly Designed, Engineered, and Assembled in USA."

The breadth isn't accidental. Building one RFID platform and engineering vehicle-specific hardware around it is what lets a company serve a hot rod, a Humvee and an excavator without compromising any of them — and it's what lets your fob work on all three.

Every product page carries "We match any advertised price," and every order is backed by a 100% Customer Satisfaction Guarantee — unconditional money back with an RMA within 7 days of purchase.

Start with one vehicle. The fob is already ready for the rest.

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