dealerships

For the people who do dealerships, do you guys install hood pins or the shutdown toggle switches? Do you leave a owners manual for the system?

I do hood pins and leave the owners guide but not the install guideIf i Can't Install it    I Don't need it   Joe

We'd be done for not installing/connecting to existing and yes, always the owners, never the install. How can you not do a hood pin on an R/S?

See it often.  Just had a 2002 Oldsmobile Bravada in the shop.  An older Dealer install of a Audiovox Pro9275 R/S system with a GMDL1 door lock module and PLDATA bypass module.  Just needed the PLDATA reset and the Passlock2 re-learned.  Checked it over and there was no hood pin.  Didn't use Scotch Super 33+ electric tape either...Soldering is fun!

ive seen some horrible dealership jobs myself. the fact is that the dealership will charge the customer a crazy amount of money and then find the cheapest place to install which usually involves cheap materials, t-taps, missing connections and cut corners. always use a hoodpin, its more of a safety feature than a security feature for when people work under your hood. never leave the install manual, never, nothing good can come from a customer poking around in the settings menu.

It doesn't matter who I do work for, hood pins and tach wires get hooked up.Kevin Pierson

Agree With KPIERSON! ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS us tach wire and Hood pin!

We stopped doing hoodpins a while back 5-7 years i think. We are in ohio where the salt eats those hood pins alive. We are required to place a warning sticker under the hood that is bright yellow saying the vehicle is equipped with remote start device. We were replacing hoodpins at least 5 a day back then before we quit putting them in. Caused way more trouble than they were worth. Tach is hooked up unless we can demonstrate that the vehicle has bump/tip start. To master and control electricity is perfection. *evil laugh*

if you cant use a hood pin then you can use a sealed mercury switch. i use them on some vehicles where a hoodpin is hard to add.

Yeah Sealed Mercury Switch