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1989 Suburban Open Door Triggers Flasher


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onlylive_once 
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Posted: March 22, 2018 at 12:02 PM / IP Logged Link to Post Post Reply Quote onlylive_once
Installed a very basic InstallGear IGCA alarm system in my buddies 1989 Suburban so he would have keyless entry and security. He didn't even want starter interrupt hooked up. I hooked the negative door trigger of the alarm to the white wire behind the headlight control box. The wiring diagram showed a white wire at the pin, I figured this same white wire at back of the headlight control was the same wire since you can turn the dome light on with the knob.
So any time you open the door it triggers the flasher. If at night with headlights on it flashes dash lights and parking lights and you can hear the flasher ticking under the dash.
I have a couple diode isolators just not sure where to install them. I know how they work, just never used them before. This is my 2nd alarm to install. Done a bunch of systems. But this is new territory.
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Posted: March 22, 2018 at 4:16 PM / IP Logged Link to Post Post Reply Quote geepherder
You're on the wrong wire. Verify with a meter first. Go to the pin switch in the door instead.
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If there is a lamp under the dash you can catch the white wire there.
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Posted: March 23, 2018 at 9:45 AM / IP Logged Link to Post Post Reply Quote onlylive_once
According to this it's all the same. That's why I don't understand why opening door would trigger the flashers.
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If you disconnect your wire from the wire at the light switch does it still turn the flashers on when you open the door?
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Posted: March 23, 2018 at 9:09 PM / IP Logged Link to Post Post Reply Quote onlylive_once
So my wife read the manual it was a safety feature lmao. Turned it off all good. Crazy!

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