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jwarren808 
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Posted: May 22, 2011 at 3:08 AM / IP Logged  
my car is a 1990 Honda CRX Si, and has a Clifford Arrow II alarm system, which a shop installed back in 1999.
the alarm works fine except one problem that has to do with the feature that flashes the parking lights.
sometimes after arming or disarming, the parking lights get stuck so the lights are on, and you have to keep pressing the arm/disarm buttons on the transmitter several times until you get them to turn off.       
i want to disconnect that feature(that flashes the parking lights), so it won't have that problem anymore.
can anyone give me steps or information how i can disconnect or disable this feature?     
my car was broken into recently and they took my stereo system, i put plexi-glass for the drivers window until i get a replacement one.
the only thing holding me back from using the alarm is the problem with the flashing parking light feature, right now i can't afford to pay a shop to disable that feature to fix the problem, so i just wanted to see if someone could describe how to do it on here, so i can do it myself.
any information would be appreciative
thanks
howie ll 
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Posted: May 22, 2011 at 4:17 AM / IP Logged  
Cut the brown wire coming from the alarm module.
Installed 12 years, that's why I loved the product.
jwarren808 
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Posted: May 22, 2011 at 6:20 PM / IP Logged  
thanks for the reply,    
just wanted to mention, i searched google and found a vehicle wire color chart for my car, and for the parking lights, it says the wires are "RED / GREEN", and Location is: "Harness at Fusebox".
so your saying that brown wire that comes from the alarm module should probably be wired up to those RED / GREEN wires for the parking lights???       and that i should cut the brown wire?       
should i follow the brown wire and make sure it goes to the parking light wires or something else parking light related ???   before snipping it ???   
i'm just being ultra carefull, cause i'm not experienced in installing alarms at all,   only have installed car audio stuff.
any more details would help me be sure of what i'm doing before cutting anything.
thanks
howie ll 
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It's the only brown wire coming from the Arrow so don't over think it, just do it!
i am an idiot 
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Posted: May 22, 2011 at 6:52 PM / IP Logged  
There may be more than one location that the wire could have been caught.  The car may have a different color than the info you found.  Howie sounds pretty confident in his post.  I would find the brown wire of the alarm and cut it.  If you are still not sure, use a meter and verify that the brown wire has voltage present when the alarm flashes your lights.
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Posted: May 22, 2011 at 8:49 PM / IP Logged  
There is probably a melted relay inside the alarm.  If you want to repair it, simply remove the alarm brain and remove the screws from it so you can split the case in half. Follow the trace that is connected to the pin that accomodates the brown wire. It will go to a relay, It may show signs of melted plastic on the outside of the device.  You may be able to remove the cover from the relay.  If so, find the melted part of the relay cover that may be interfering with the mechanical part of the relay.  Using a dremel tool, or other similar device, grind the melted plastic so it will no longer interfere.  With the relay cover removed, you may want to drill a small hole in it to help the heat escape.
howie ll 
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Posted: May 23, 2011 at 2:37 AM / IP Logged  
Actually I've been thinking it through myself.
To be absolutely safe, disconnect the brown where it joins the vehicle wiring, don't just cut at the alarm module.
It is brown, the reason for cutting as close as possible to it's source is to eliminate problems in the alarm's cable loom causing this.
The exercise would be a good learning curve.
By the way the car is 20 years old, are you sure it isn't a faulty lighting switch,, I would rate that generation Clifford wiring much higher than the car's.
awdeclipse 
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Posted: May 23, 2011 at 9:19 AM / IP Logged  
I had the same thing happen on an old Code Alarm. After the second dead battery I had enough of stuck on parking lights.
I opened up the Alarm, found and removed the parking light relay, added 4 wires to the board and installed an "external" parking light relay. Weeks later I was told that code alarm had a lifetime warranty...
howie ll 
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So did Clifford, does DEI now honour it?
jwarren808 
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Posted: May 24, 2011 at 6:05 PM / IP Logged  
sorry taking long to reply, i had trouble connecting to the link from the email notification to view the replies for the post.
but thanks for the replies, now i know more detail on what to do.
i just thought of something that may or may not have something to do with this problem? which i will mention...
about 7 years ago i had a problem where using the turn signals kept blowing the hazard fuse (in underdash fusebox), and if you put a new fuse then it would work for a little bit and then it would blow.
so i had an electrical shop troubleshoot it, they said there was a short somewhere, but since it was difficult to find, and would be expensive for extra hours of diagnosis fees, they came up with a solution that was cheaper and worked to fix it.     
what they did was put something called a "CIRCUIT BREAKER" or "CIRCUIT BREAKER FUSE", which they told me was a self-resetting fuse, that protects itself from blowing,      and that problem has remained fixed up til this day, due to the circuit breaker still doing its job to protect from being blown again.
so whats your opinions on that problem i just described?   do you think that could be part of the problem with the parking lights getting stuck on for the alarm in any way ???      or not??
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