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antitheft bypass?

my starter has been installed for 3 years and worked fine up until like april of this year

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From November - End of January I'll be doing between 6-10 remote starts a day be ready for them :)

A classic from last winter:

Elderly gentleman came back about two weeks after getting a remote start(read DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS)*INSISTED* that I fucked up his brake lights in his Jeep Liberty... Well I check them out and sure enough every time I flip the parking lights on it's blowing a fuse. I asked him if he had any work done on the vehicle since he brought it in(since usually things like that just don't pop up, they are there from day one). As the day sat we were already going to be there till 9pm and I had no time to really dig into it, so I asked him to bring it back sometime next week and I would take care of it.

Well next week he comes back raising hell with my manager, telling all the customers in the store we fucked his car up and won't fix it. Well sure enough the brake wire was seeing ground when I tested it. So I dig a little farther and pull out the rear tail lights... Ohh what is this I see hanging from it?? A plug in trailer harness. So I disconnected it and plugged the harness back onto the taillight assembly. What do you know? no problem with the fuse blowing.

So I take the harness into our waiting room(about 10customers sitting in there) and he's still going off pointing his finger at me saying I messed up his brake lights and blew it off. I told him I had fixed the problem and then asked him when the harness I had in my hand had been installed and he said "ohh about two weeks ago but the dealership put that on"... what do you know that's about a week after the remote start was installed and the problems started.

I took him out to the garage and showed him that everything worked fine. I pulled his car out of the bay and he walked back in the lobby. When I walked back in and gave him his keys his grandson that was with him asked "grandpa did they fix the problem?". He said yes and I have never saw someone's face turn so red in embarrassment in my life. I love people that make themselves look like a complete jack ass to strangers.

-Installer for Duke's Car Stereo

2000 Pontiac Grand Prix - Ported Eaton M90 S/C, 3.5" pulley, XS Power Headers, 1.9 Rockers, FWI, Poly Motor Mounts, Custom Tune.

RF T1000-1bdCP and T400-4

Boston Acoustics SPG 555

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Powermaster Alternator, YellowTop D34, Vmax CT1000

Posted

i need to see whats wrong with my starter :(

it'll start the car but then the car will shut off after about 2-3 seconds after starting -_-

Tach needs to be reprogrammed. Or set to voltage and it is seeing too low or high of a voltage after crank.

What kind of vehicle? could be anti-theft... but I would lean towards ^.

-Installer for Duke's Car Stereo

2000 Pontiac Grand Prix - Ported Eaton M90 S/C, 3.5" pulley, XS Power Headers, 1.9 Rockers, FWI, Poly Motor Mounts, Custom Tune.

RF T1000-1bdCP and T400-4

Boston Acoustics SPG 555

Kenwood eXcelon 995

RF Punch 6.5" components and MB Quart Premium 6x9"s

Powermaster Alternator, YellowTop D34, Vmax CT1000

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yea i love dumb people. but if your gonna be an installer u have to laugh at this type of shit.

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gotta love uneducated angry people. I'm lovin florida and all the vitamin d i'm gettin down here at school lol, but i'd take michigan cops over florida cops anyday. Now what i really hate are the local shops back home - for instance my buddy went to get a ipod cable for his pioneer hu, and when he asked the sales guy he replied with, "we only sell quality products here like mtx kenwood and SONY"

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Posted

Tach needs to be reprogrammed. Or set to voltage and it is seeing too low or high of a voltage after crank.

What kind of vehicle? could be anti-theft... but I would lean towards ^.

voltage is fine for it to run, 12.7 volts sitting

how can the tach be reset?

Team Sundown Audio

**CURRENT** -- 2012 Scion tC Build Click Here

**OLD** -- 2002 Pontiac Grand AM Build Click Here
check them out, slap me a comment

2002 Pontiac Grand AM SE 2.2l 4 cylinder ecotec.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Head Unit - Alpine CDA-9887
Subs - 2x Z 12 v.2s - v.3 + NS Soft parts
Amplifier - Sundown Audio SAZ-3500D
Enclosure - 3.33 Cubes tuned to 34.66hz
Front Stage - JBL P660c 6.5" Components
Rear Deck - Powerbass 4xl 6.5" Mid-Range
Front Stage Amplifier - Sundown Audio SAX-100.4D
Wires - Kicker Hyperflex 1/0, KnuKonceptz 1/0, Knu 4 and 8 Gauge, Kicker RCAs
Electrical - 275 AMP DC Power H/O Alternator, XS Power S3400, XS Power D2700
Videos - http://www.youtube.com/user/BeAILsTaR13
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voltage is fine for it to run, 12.7 volts sitting

how can the tach be reset?

That's not how the voltage sensing works... 12.7 is fine. But if it sees too much of a drop or raise while idling it will restart because it thinks the car is turning off.

What kind of remote start is it? All directed units you start the vehicle and hold down the valet button... LED will turn solid and tach is learned.

-Installer for Duke's Car Stereo

2000 Pontiac Grand Prix - Ported Eaton M90 S/C, 3.5" pulley, XS Power Headers, 1.9 Rockers, FWI, Poly Motor Mounts, Custom Tune.

RF T1000-1bdCP and T400-4

Boston Acoustics SPG 555

Kenwood eXcelon 995

RF Punch 6.5" components and MB Quart Premium 6x9"s

Powermaster Alternator, YellowTop D34, Vmax CT1000

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That's not how the voltage sensing works... 12.7 is fine. But if it sees too much of a drop or raise while idling it will restart because it thinks the car is turning off.

What kind of remote start is it? All directed units you start the vehicle and hold down the valet button... LED will turn solid and tach is learned.

no idea what kind it is.. my dad got it installed for my mom (when it was her car) at a local shop called.. creative solutions? codealarm maybe is the brand? havnt seen the box in who knows how long lol

Team Sundown Audio

**CURRENT** -- 2012 Scion tC Build Click Here

**OLD** -- 2002 Pontiac Grand AM Build Click Here
check them out, slap me a comment

2002 Pontiac Grand AM SE 2.2l 4 cylinder ecotec.
-------------------------------------------------------------------

Head Unit - Alpine CDA-9887
Subs - 2x Z 12 v.2s - v.3 + NS Soft parts
Amplifier - Sundown Audio SAZ-3500D
Enclosure - 3.33 Cubes tuned to 34.66hz
Front Stage - JBL P660c 6.5" Components
Rear Deck - Powerbass 4xl 6.5" Mid-Range
Front Stage Amplifier - Sundown Audio SAX-100.4D
Wires - Kicker Hyperflex 1/0, KnuKonceptz 1/0, Knu 4 and 8 Gauge, Kicker RCAs
Electrical - 275 AMP DC Power H/O Alternator, XS Power S3400, XS Power D2700
Videos - http://www.youtube.com/user/BeAILsTaR13
-------------------------------------------------------------------

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no idea what kind it is.. my dad got it installed for my mom (when it was her car) at a local shop called.. creative solutions? codealarm maybe is the brand? havnt seen the box in who knows how long lol

If it's code alarm which is made by audiovox... it is more than likely the voltage setting... or crank averaging. Try starting the car four times in a row... start it and let it run for a couple seconds... turn it off.. and repeat. That will teach the crank averaging I believe... can't recall haven't done an audiovox in awhile. If you can look up under the dash and figure out the model number I could help more.

What kind of car is it in?

-Installer for Duke's Car Stereo

2000 Pontiac Grand Prix - Ported Eaton M90 S/C, 3.5" pulley, XS Power Headers, 1.9 Rockers, FWI, Poly Motor Mounts, Custom Tune.

RF T1000-1bdCP and T400-4

Boston Acoustics SPG 555

Kenwood eXcelon 995

RF Punch 6.5" components and MB Quart Premium 6x9"s

Powermaster Alternator, YellowTop D34, Vmax CT1000

Posted

i need to see whats wrong with my starter :(

it'll start the car but then the car will shut off after about 2-3 seconds after starting -_-

it sounds like you somehow reset your runtime, which is possible with some starters, if you look in the manual or look up the manual it should tell you how to set it

OT- i work at a audio shop an noticed this too! not for a starter but recently a lady came to get a deck installed cause "her radio didnt work"... she pulled around an the installers went to work.... she didnt have one speaker in her car...

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