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2003 Acura MDX door locks

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Forum Name: Car Security and Convenience
Forum Discription: Car Alarms, Keyless Entries, Remote Starters, Immobilizer Bypasses, Sensors, Door Locks, Window Modules, Heated Mirrors, Heated Seats, etc.
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Printed Date: May 17, 2024 at 2:49 AM


Topic: 2003 Acura MDX door locks

Posted By: dre187
Subject: 2003 Acura MDX door locks
Date Posted: November 29, 2006 at 8:49 PM

I put an Autostart 2400 (the new design 2-way remote starter unit) in a 2003 Acura MDX. The locks are neg trigger and i connected them in the passenger kick panel.  The lock wire was BLACK/ orange and the unlock was blue/orange in a connector just above the fuse panel. Everything worked fine at first and the customer returned today because the keyless entry didnt work. The factory keyless entry still worked but the starter keyless entry and the passenger door lock switch didnt work. You couldnt even lock or unlock the doors by probing the wires with a test light. After replacing the brain, everything seemed to work fine again, but after starting the vehicle and waiting about 3 or 4 minutes, the door lock problem happened again. We changed the brain again assuming it was ANOTHER bad brain. Door locks worked fine and yet again, after about 5 minutes of the car running, the door locks stopped working. Ive never seen this before, i dont understand why it works fine until after the vehicle has started and idled for a few minutes. I figured maybe it was child safety locks or something but its not. The passenger door lock switch also stops functioning, but works once you unplug the harness with door locks from the brain. anybody seen this before?? any ideas would be appreciated....thanks



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Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: November 30, 2006 at 3:47 AM
 LOCK BLACK/ white At module in driver's door   - 
 Doorlocks and security are mutiplexed and must be accessed in the driver's door at the control module. See the photo.
 UNLOCK GREEN/ red At module in driver's door   - 
 Doorlocks and security are mutiplexed and must be accessed in the driver's door at the control module. See the photo.

FACTORY ARM Blue/white At module in driver's door   - 
 This wire also locks the doors. See the photo. Doorlocks and security are mutiplexed and must be accessed in the driver's door at the control module. See the photo.
 FACTORY DISARM Blue/sil.dot At module in driver's door   - 
 This wire will disarm the factory security without unlocking the doors. See the photo.Doorlocks and security are mutiplexed and must be accessed in the driver's door at the control module. See the photo.

You got the wrong wires buddy. You need to get inside the drivers door for them.

LOCK and arm is blue/white

UNLOCK and disarm is blue



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Posted By: CruisinS&S
Date Posted: November 30, 2006 at 11:03 PM
any time you replace a module and the same problem happens to the 2nd one - thats a sure sign its not the equiptment. When I have to do troubleshooting I always remember that the product is defective out of the box maybe .5% of the time. The rest is something wrong that I am doing or something that is missing. Ask any EXPERIENCED installer on this forum - they'll tell you its usually NOT the product!

Good luck

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Cruisin Security And Sounds




Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: November 30, 2006 at 11:19 PM
CruisinS&S wrote:

Ask any EXPERIENCED installer on this forum - they'll tell you its usually NOT the product!


Chances are it's the AUtostart CPU that causing the problems posted_image posted_image

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA




Posted By: tbone587
Date Posted: November 30, 2006 at 11:27 PM
im almost positive I did this car before.  I think the lock wires are at the passenger side fuse box.  I think the colors are Lock - BLACK/ orange, unlock - blue/orange..  I may be wrong, but Im almost positive.




Posted By: cntrylvr79
Date Posted: November 30, 2006 at 11:31 PM

CruisinS&S wrote:

any time you replace a module and the same problem happens to the 2nd one - thats a sure sign its not the equiptment. When I have to do troubleshooting I always remember that the product is defective out of the box maybe .5% of the time. The rest is something wrong that I am doing or something that is missing. Ask any EXPERIENCED installer on this forum - they'll tell you its usually NOT the product!

Good luck

That is unless it's a magicar.  Then it's defective out of the box about 99.5% of the time.  So far out of 20 of these things brought to me not one has worked properly out of the box.  That's even testing the units on the bench before they're even close to being installed.



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Cause I'm So white and nerdy...
First Class Certi-fried installer





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