Installing car alarms.

[luckiebrand13 10+ year member]

Who has experience doing this. I am buying the newest and best Viper alarm that they offer, and am going to attempt the install myself. I do not have power locks, but I can get locks for my truck for 50 a door and then 100 for the install of the alarm if I chose to have it done professionally. Think I might as well go that route or attempt it myself?

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[Expy2000]

No... I wouldn't. Get it professionally installed.

 

[kjwiehoff 10+ year member]

yup... unless you're an expert at wiring...

 

[davidfre21 5,000+ posts]

seriously

the alarm is the only thing im not willing to do myself

id hate to screw something up

 

[LBX2G 10+ year member]

yeah alarms are very tricky. Do not attempr ur self unless u want a big *** push toy in ur yard.

 

[`pr0digy 10+ year member]

I was thinking of doing an alarm myself. I think that I may, if I can get a free weekend to do it, with an extra day or two if needed. Plus, my brother used to be an installer, so I can call him (lives a ways away) if I'm in deep shit //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Nikuk 5,000+ posts]

It isnt to hard to install a basic noisemaker & starter kill. Just take your time and follow the diagrams closely (the alram's & your car's). But, if you got the TOP of line with every bell, whistle, pager, relay, internet service, corkscrew, trunk monkey, sateliete dish, ***** chick, etc... have someone else do it. Or plan on spending a 3 days to make sure it's all correct.

 

[Slody4Futbol 10+ year member]

it's not the hardest thing in the world... but you MUST have an understanding of what the product does... and how relay's... and in some cars... diodes and resistors work... or at least how to wire them up correctly ... then again it's nothing for me to install 2-4 alarms/remote starts a day lol... but be clean... use some good electrical tape... a soldering gun... strippers... DMM... a bunch of zip ties... and a few wiring diagrams...

 

[Slody4Futbol 10+ year member]

first though... what kind of vehicle?

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

wouldn't call it experience, but I've installed mine. it's basic stuff though...siren, keyless entry, no fancy inputs or triggers aside from door trigger, trunk trigger, & shock sensor. nothing special.

spent 10 hours doing it, but I could've done it in less time had I not kept traveling back & forth to radioshack (with no instrument panel cluster or operable lights, etc...) and kept double & triple checking everything. just make sure you observe correct polarity (if it takes a negative, give it a negative....or convert the positive to a negative, etc.), make sure you're connecting to the right wire, etc.

looking back, it seems it was pretty simple, but seeming as how it was my first time, I wanted to make sure I had everything right. I definitely wouldn't want to do it again...(my back hurt for days), but if I had to, I'd be more than willing to as opposed to getting it done for some loot.

 

[torn eMericas 10+ year member]

It isnt to hard to install a basic noisemaker & starter kill. Just take your time and follow the diagrams closely (the alram's & your car's). But, if you got the TOP of line with every bell, whistle, pager, relay, internet service, corkscrew, trunk monkey, sateliete dish, ***** chick, etc... have someone else do it. Or plan on spending a 3 days to make sure it's all correct.

hahahahaha //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smash.gif.499e08a4a35ffaf54f4c8194fb8fe8ed.gif

 

[Stealth 10+ year member]

make sure you have a 12v test light, and i'd recommend those things (i don't know what they're called) but they crimp onto a wire, and then they've got a female end, and you stick a male plug into it, so you're actually splicing a wire into two, but it's a lot neater and safer. get a lot of those, a few dozen.

be careful if you're messing around with remote start or starter kill. the rest should be cake. probably time-consuming, but not too difficult. what year vehicle is it? the older the car, the easier it is to install. did one in a 59 cadillac once, and that was a pleasure to do...

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

remote start...I dunno, I may not have the balls to do that. but when I was hooking up my starter kill for my alarm...I thought I had really f*cked up. since you know you have to cut the starter wire, so that the flow is ignition switch->alarm->starter, I thought I had pulled the wire out of the ignition switch connector after I cut it & was going to crimp them to the alarm & thought I was funek. but it seems I had only pulled out a wire that was crimped onto the ignition switch connector. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

my lesson...accessability is key; disconnect wire connectors/switches if you're gonna be working on a wire.