If your idea is to acquire a brand new automobile to order to armor it, it is necessary to choose the armory company carefully and that should be associated with the (Abrablin). once with indications in the hands, research the specific documentation of the company - if it has certifications in the army, what materials are used in the armoring, if they are tested and approved for the army and if the manufacturing suppliers are authorized as well.

Just with all of the formalities precisely accomplished, you will be able to, at the end of the process, obtain the registration certificate and to make to insurance of your vehicle. In case you ask for some documents and the salesperson satarts saying.. "well, we shall see... ", it is a bad sign.

Once the documentation is verified, it is worth visiting the pre-selected armory companies. But do not get satisfied nor impressed with the showroom. Demand a visit to the workshop. Dispersed pieces at the ground and employees without proper uniform, wearing jeans or slippers, it sure means a terrible sign, because a lot of people buy fake stuff be happy, thinking that a good business has been made.

Not only you can, yet you must. Transparency is part of the process. Talk with the responsible manager, question on the origin, type and the brand of the applyed materials (aramids, glass, etc...). When getting the business done, ask for permission to make periodic visits to really see the assembly of the vehicle in order to verify the materials that are being applied and performed.

An armoring weighs 200 kg on average, but to be certain of its weight, always ask for the technical specifications of the applied materials and their amounts, that will always make you sure of its weight. Depending on the mechanization of the vehicle, the excessive weight makes a lot of difference in the wear and tear of the mechanical parts, generating a larger index of maintenance.

The most used in the market is the level IIIA. It is what supports all in general shots made by hand weapons - in other words, difficultly it will be necessary more than that in a normal situation of urban violence. There are other smaller levels, but the cost-benefit relation is not worth. The level IIA, for instance, offers a satisfactory safety, but the price difference is very small and the vehicle loses much more value then, by the time of after sale. That lower level is risky in case of intensive attack, with very close shots one close to the other. The economy it takes is not worth the risk.

The warranty pattern is within three years. In some cases as the Steel Armory Company, that warranty can be extended up to 05 years. When the car is finished, the customer receives from the the company the whole legal documentation, besides a manual, that is a type of warranty book that brings up since armory technical information and useful instructions.

Concisely, to protect the automobile in the big opaque extensions and to take care so that there be intersecções in those spaces, with protection of "overlaps" that guarantee that no shot will reach the occupants of the car. In the opaque part, the protection is made by the aramids (that has as trade names "Kevlar or Twaron"). In the transparent ones, the glass is a composed of polymeric, polycarbonate and glasses while the healthy "overlaps" are made of steel. It is spoken a lot about "overlaps" as being just a space between the door and the truck, but it is much more than that. It refers to any proposition, any amendment that might be in the glasses of the windows, in the roof or even inside among the aramids protections.

he steel that is applied should also be of a certain technical and ballistic specification, as the 304L of 3,0mm that has a high nickel concentration providing a larger elasticity and protection, or the Swedish ballistic steel, Domex Protect 500, that should be applied only with scouring pads of "Rivkle". (antioxidant special scouring pads, fastened in the form with thread interns for fixation of anodized screws without leaving them in contact with the bodywork, avoiding like this, the early spanning of the fixations.

They are items that became standard in the armoring process. But you may not to have those items, in case you prefer.

From 25 to 35 useful days. In case you want to see your automobile being armored, the best is to visit the company exactly in the middle of the process.

To begin, do not watch it only at the end of the process. There are lots of cases in the market which the finish is perfect, but with armoring materials that are not so good.

Good finishes can camouflage bad armornings. It may seem strange to see your car items all dismounted. But it will be worth and provide provide you better safety.

In theory, it is safer. But conclusive tests are not for validating that hypothesis. The larger safety is provided by the preservation of the deformation areas of the vehicle (what a good armoring maintains) and for the reinforcement of the cockpit.

The time lenght is not commited to the armoring in its opaque area. But, in the case of the glasses, it is necessary to take care in relation to the conservation. They should not be clean inside with derived of petroleum, because that material type can destroy them.

It can still happen trines in the glasses, caused by three factors: impact (of a stone, for instance), collide thermal (to take to car wash a vehicle tha has been a long time in the sun) and sprain in the truck (it is necessary to be careful with ramps and gutters).

With the time, the glass also delaminates (they appear to have whitish air bubbles). If that begins to happen, it is worth take it to the armory company to verify if there was not a loss of effectiveness in the armoring.

The answer depends on the finance condition. If you are trying hard too much to acquire an armored 0km, you should research the used cars market, because there are excellent options, regarding the cost-benefit and interest. That situation is only complicated, when choosing a used vehicle, therefore you won't have the possibility to choose the applied materials and to have trusting finish the salesperson says, before the purchase you should request the salesperson a technical report of the armoring that already exists in the vehicle, for a specialized company and only doing this, you will know if you will be really protected.

Try to buy a model with automatic transmission, that doesn't bring the risk of getting the engine started in case of a escape. The electric windows have to be tested carefully, because as the glasses are heavier, they might have stopped working. See if the films of the windows have some peeled, stains or bubbles. Trines cannot pass over a centimeter.

The suspension of an armored car always suffers more damage than the one of a normal car, because the armoring gets to weigh 230 kilos. See if as much the shock absorbers and springs as the system of brakes are good enough. A person that drives an armored car wants the keed the windows shut the whole time. Then the air conditioning also has to be working correctly.

You would rather have the armored cars that have metallic rings into the tires, to ride quite longer even damaged or getting flat. See if the car has a ribbon of steel that is in the space between the door and the windowsill. That ribbon is called of Overlap or Frame, very important in the ballistic protection.

As the car is all dismounted for the armoring, it can have free pieces of finish. A test-drive can announce noises of pieces that have been badly set. Check the rubbers are perfect installed to avoid future infiltrations.

Understand the mandatory documents of the armory companies: It is not only enough for the company to have the CR (Certificate of Registration) in the Army, without this the company cannot trade in the market segment. The company needs to have Permission of the civil Police D.P.C. and a specific authorization for each vehicle to be armored. That application should be made in forms and be correspondent to the Military Area (R.M.) in which the armory company is registered. Such procedure avoids armored cars to be used by no-suitable people.

To armor a car, it is necessary to present ID, CPF, residence voucher, CRLV (Certificate of Registration and Licensing of Vehicle), criminal negative certificates of the Federal Justice, State and Militar of the last five years, and Certificate of Criminal records, emitted by the Civil Police of the State. If the car goes to company, it will also be necessary to present CNPJ and Certificate of Antecedents by of the Federal Justice, State and Militar of each of the administrating partner owners or managers, of the Districts where have been stated in the last five years.

The Military Area authorizes the armoring of the vehicle and makes its registration in the system control of the Army. DFPC (Management of Fiscalization of Controlled Products) then it reviews the application form data to Denatran (National Department of Traffic), in Brasília, that makes the registration within the state organs of traffic.

A copy of the Term of Responsibility of the armory comapny, with the proprietor's application, more copies of the armoring authorization and of the licensing certificate will be sent to the Military Area which will emit an authorization with all the data of the vehicle and the proprietor's.