remote start crank only viper

Ok I'm really stumped now!

Just went out to test the system again. The vehicle remote starts fine but the climate control, digital odometer, speedo, fuel gauge, in fact all gauges do not work almost like there is no power to them. Then, I put key in ignition, turn to on position and now everything works...turn key off and take out key...remote start is still going but all the gauges and blower turn off again.

When u remote start, are all the dash gauges supposed to turn on automatically and stay on just as if you had used the key and turned to on position? Help please.

What it sounds like to me is you may have a bad ignition 2 output from the R/S...most Toyotas I've seen power the blower, gauges, etc. off of an ignition and not an accessory circuit.  Meter the ignition 2 where the heavy gauge wire plugs in and see if it shows 12v+ with the remote start running.

Also I'm not familiar with every new Viper product, but does your manual say anything about the wire being programmable for ignition, accessory, or start?

Thanks for the reply Chris..I will check out the ign2 wire voltage when I get home. Would the remote start still function if the ign2 wire was bad?

The manual allows the ign2 wire to function as ignition or accessory. Default is set for ignition. As a test I switched it over to accessory mode but it made no difference if that means anything.

It is very possible that the remote start would still function if one of the outputs was bad.

This is most likely why things changed when you swapped the ignition wires - again, there is NO difference between ignition one and igntion two - they both get voltage at the exact same time in a remote start system, so swapping ign1 with ign2 should NOT change anything.  If it does, you most likely have a bad output or a wrong wire.

No, you can not connect one output to two seperate ignition feeds.

If the alarm has a programmable 3rd ignition output or some something like that, use that.  If it doesn't, you can use the one good relay to trigger two new relays (one to each ign wire). 

I wouldn't recomend that - you will still need an accessory wire.  It seems like it would work though, but I would do it right.

Viper alarms have full warranties, take it back and get one that works right.