at a loss with my clifford matrix 50.5x

[DcMaN 10+ year member]

actually i didnt read your post, about the factory alarm disarm. YOU MUST use the wire, or else it wont start due to the anti theft. If you cant find it in the kick it comes in right through the grommet between the door and the chassis.

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

ok i will look there for it. is that the drivers or passanger door?

 

[DcMaN 10+ year member]

driver... You can tell if you ahve factory anti theft. If you lock the doors with the power locks from inside you will see a red light on the gauge cluster flash, it will actually say anti theft

 

[thejoker989 10+ year member]

ok i will look there for it. is that the drivers or passanger door?

It doesnt matter at this point, the alarm would still acknowledge the remote start signal if anti theft is enabled. Your car just wouldn't start. Re-read my previous post and go from there.

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

ok first of all the anti theft light has nothing to do with the factory alarm. That is for the transponder in the key. To test if it actually has an alarm see my previous posts. I would be willing to bet that it doesnt even have a factory alarm.

And like said above that isnt the problem anyway since the unit wont even respond to the remote when he tries to start it.

My guess since it wont even try to start is a transponder problem. Do you have the key-in sense wire hooked up? If not put the key in the ignition and turn it to the on position and then try to remote start it. If it starts than that is your problem. Or you can start it with the key and use the remote to start it and take the key out. Does it stay running?

If it still doesnt start check all the outputs on the r/s and the programming very carefully. Do and of the lights come on the dash when trying to remote start? Does the theft light continue to flash?

Keep us updated.

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

i dont have a keysense wire in the truck, i have the blue wire hooked to the status out on the top of the relay pack, power to power ground to ground, i had the pink hooked up but it was causeing problems with me trying to start the truck, it wouldnt let me sometimes because the pats system was seeing that key no the key in the ignition. but today i was seeing the range on it i was sitting in class probly 1/2 mile from the truck and i was out of range(whatever i expected that) and i hit the * twice and it finally gave me the error beep, but when i got within range of the truck it would not do it for me. i am going to go back in in a sec and look at the wires everyone has said to look at and then try to tap the white blue to see it if starts. i am kinda thinking my remote may be bad how i dont know it is brand new.

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

ok so i went out tried regrounding the neutral safety wire and then tried to start it nothing, then i tried to do it with the activation input and got nothing, tried redoing the hood pin got nothing, no i am starting to think that my brain could be bad. i even unpluged the brain and then the remote gave me the error beeps. anyway to check for a bad brain?

 

[Shyne151 10+ year member]

ok so i went out tried regrounding the neutral safety wire and then tried to start it nothing, then i tried to do it with the activation input and got nothing, tried redoing the hood pin got nothing, no i am starting to think that my brain could be bad. i even unpluged the brain and then the remote gave me the error beeps. anyway to check for a bad brain?

Does that unit use a ribbon cable to connect the relay pack? or is it all internal? I'm too lazy to go look //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

haha yeah it uses the ribbon cable and that is plugged in all the way. beleive me i have made sure a few times. but shyne what days do you work at dukes? how much would they charge me to have you look at it and figure it out? i am in lansing and flint is like 45min from me.

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

It could be a bad brain. The easiest way to test for a bad brain is to replace it with a new one. If you dont have access to one than I really dont know how to get around that. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[mokedaddy 5,000+ posts]

Start the car with the key. Ground the activation input, take the key out of the ignition. If the vehicle shuts off chances are either the brain is bad or a connection. Since I assume this isnt your first remote start it most likely is a faulty brain. That does happen from time to time.

 

[THUNDERBIRD 10+ year member]

no it is like my 5 or 6 rs all of 3 of which i have done with previous installers, one who used to run the dealer installs for a shop in town then moved to ATL to run a shop and that one was my dads caddy, and the other 2 where with a buddy i watch him do one and then we did my 791. so i know what i am doing, might have to order the unit again for $200 and swap the brain out and return the unit.

 

[thejoker989 10+ year member]

before deciding its a faulty brain, try manually programming the remote start button on your pager for the remote start function on the alarm. if u dont have the instructions how to then let me know and ill link them

 

[Shyne151 10+ year member]

haha yeah it uses the ribbon cable and that is plugged in all the way. beleive me i have made sure a few times. but shyne what days do you work at dukes? how much would they charge me to have you look at it and figure it out? i am in lansing and flint is like 45min from me.

I work monday, thursday, friday, saturday usually... but I work at the Saginaw location. Make sure the ribbon cable is plugged in all the way on both ends... and check them with a multimeter. I've saw a few times it looks like they are plugged in all the way... but they aren't... and that causes the almost exact same symptom you're talking about.

Did you try cutting the brake wire, physically grounding out the neutral safety wire?? instead of useing a switch... and cutting your hoodpin wire? and seeing if it would start?

 

[Shyne151 10+ year member]

before deciding its a faulty brain, try manually programming the remote start button on your pager for the remote start function on the alarm. if u dont have the instructions how to then let me know and ill link them

Tapping the activations input twice to ground will do the same thing as hitting the remote start on the remote... he tried that and it didn't work.