The most common type of strip consists of sharp, penetrating spikes that damage the tires of any vehicle that drives over it. 

The vehicle’s tires immediately blow out unless they use run-flat technology (see run flat tires below), forcing the driver to make an immediate Handling test to avoid crashing. Even if the crash is avoided, flat tires increase the Handling rating of a ground vehicle by 3.

Availability: 3 (Illegal)

The tracking strip is a clear, difficult-to-notice strip with a row of small explosive blisters containing stealth tags. 

Whenever a vehicle passes over a tracking strip, a blister detonates, hitting the bottom of the vehicle with a glob of adhesive containing a tag. 

A tracking strip contains enough blisters and tracking strips to tag the first ten vehicles that pass over it.

Availability: 3

The zapper strip is equipped with hundreds of tiny wires extending up, which brush against the chassis of any vehicle that passes over. When this happens, the strip sends a powerful electric pulse into the chassis of the vehicle. 

A vehicle that drives over a zapper strip suffers 8S electrical damage. A zapper strip has enough power for ten discharges before needing to be recharged.

Availability: 3 (Legal)

The searchlight modification installs a high-powered light mounted somewhere on the exterior of the vehicle, capable of all-around movement from wherever it happens to be mounted. 

It can be operated remotely or manually if it’s physically accessible. Its illumination goes three times as far as a standard flashlight and can be bought in low-light or thermographic versions for the same price.

Availability: 2

One or two canisters with aerosol nozzles are attached to the vehicle. A Minor Action activates them, releasing a huge cloud of dense smoke. The cloud obscures vision, inflicting the Blinded I status for anyone acting through the smoke and Blinded II for anyone trying to act from within the smoke. 

While the vehicle is stationary or moving slowly, the cloud has Range 5 (see Gas Attacks, p. 116, SR6). While the vehicle is at roadway speeds, the cloud is stretched out so that it is only five meters wide, but extends as much as 100 meters long in a trail following the vehicle’s path. When stretched behind a moving vehicle, the cloud does not use the Range mechanic to expand beyond this volume. 

The system can be loaded with thermal smoke for a nominal extra cost.

Availability: 3 (Legal)

Sometimes you want to gas an area with something that has a little more kick than smoke. Toxins require more specialized storage and dispersal mechanics than what smoke projectors use. 

This system has Range 2, and a Concentration equal to the number of doses of the toxin released. 

The reservoir can hold up to five doses of a toxin and can release any number of doses in one attack. It takes a Minor Action to trigger the system. 

A rating 3 anti-theft system may also be set to trigger this system in the event of an alarm.

Availability: 5 (Legal)

All vehicles and drones that use GridGuide, SkyGuide, or the new xGuide are required to have an identification transponder as well as a physical badge or license plate. This allows law enforcement to quickly identify and track a vehicle. In other words, it’s the last thing a criminal wants. 

The spoof kit, with its morphing license plate, plug-in chip, and ID-mimicking algorithms are just as important to a runner as a good fake SIN. This mod mimics a standard vehicle ID transmission signal with a random value designed to appear authentic while the plate changes shape to display a matching ID tag. It will not pass any active scrutiny, but it beats leaving a registry tied to your SIN (real or fake) on traffic sensors. 

You can change the kit’s identifier code to a new pattern anytime with a Minor Action or just set it to change at regular intervals. Only one vehicle or drone can benefit from a given spoof kit at a time.

Availability: 4 (Illegal)

When equipped and used off-road, these tires improve Acceleration by +5 and Speed Interval by +10. The downside is that when driving on pavement, those bonuses become penalties (–5 Acceleration and -10 Speed Interval). 

Off-road tires may have run-flat technology that allows them to continue after a puncture as an option for a 50 percent increase in the base price.

Availability: 2

The flip side of off-road tires, racing tires are designed to maximize vehicle performance on the street. When equipped and used on-road, these tires give a +5 Acceleration and +10 Speed Interval. When off-road, this changes to –5 Acceleration and a –10 to the Speed Interval. 

Racing tires may have run-flat technology that allows them to continue after a puncture as an option for a 50 percent increase in the base price.

Availability: 2

A common upgrade for vehicles owned by shadowrunners, these are a general-duty tire design that perform equally well on or off the road. 

They are an upgrade to standard tires and are designed to continue operating even when their air pressure is released due to a puncture. 

Run-flat technology may also be bought as an upgrade to racing and off-road tires.

Availability: 2

Made popular on the Thundercloud Mustang cross-country bike, smart tires use a nanotech material that reshapes the tire to suit the current driving conditions. 

Off-road mode deepens the tread and widens the tire to function like an off-road tire (with the same modifiers), while on pavement the smart tire becomes smoother and stiffer for high-speed performance just like a racing tire (again with the same modifiers). Smart tires are wireless-enabled and can transmit their current status and condition. 

They switch modes when they receive a wireless command or when the tire’s internal sensors detect a change in surface (after one combat round of driving). The change between modes can happen while driving, taking a single combat round for the tires to switch between modes. 

All smart tires also have self-repairing capabilities that allow them to continue operating after a puncture just like standard run-flat tires.

Availability: 4

These may earn some style points out in the barrens, but they’re illegal everywhere else. Why? Mainly because shredders are named after the ring of sharp metal blades or spikes built into their outer edge. 

These tires add the vehicle’s Body to the Attack Rating when ramming non-vehicular targets, one-half Body if it’s an attack made against another vehicle.

Availability: 4 (Illegal)