Ok at this point I think I have an evil spirit *ing with me.
Yesterday as I was reinstalling the diodes I decided to do the drivers door last for a few reasons. 1) I had to also tie in the unlock signal to it, and 2) thats the only door that was open (I was laying across the seats to rewire the trigger diodes), and I knew if it was the last wire I installed, and my theory was right about the diodes, when I install the last diode and touch the wires together, the interior light should finally come back on after days of not working, and triumphantly indicate a correct install. Im a goob, I know, but for me, its those moments that make you feel better about all the trouble that now finally has passed. Plus of course it means my hunch was right.
So as I had hoped for, as soon as the copper wires touched each other I got my door activated interior light back! I was so excited I immediately shut the doors and set the alarm. As you can probably guess it didnt before. When the alarm was set, opening and closing the doors had no effect on the armed alarm, or the interior light. I actually realized that the other day when I set the alarm off and "couldnt get it to stop" it was because of the shock sensor when i shut the door, not me triggering it with the door trigger. Anyways after I set the alarm I opened the door from the inside and it went off as it should! I checked every door, all doors were now communicating correctly with the Avital. Everything but the trunk trigger was working for the first time. I bet I armed and disarmed the unit ten times. I should also go ahead and mention the communication between the remote and the brain isnt the best. Quite often I have to hit the buttons twice to get it to register. Any of them, Lock, unlock, sometimes I will hit the button and nothing will happen. I dont know if im hitting the button too fast or whatever, more time will tell.
I still have 1 final undone wire... the dreaded trunk pin. I had considered leaving this undone since you cant open the trunk anyway without opening another door, or using the fob.. but since I had just had a major accomplishment, I was feeling thorough. I decided to re probe the BLACK/YELLOW wires in the drivers kick one last time in hopes of finding the right one. I even found 2 more to strip and check! I think that makes a total of 4 BLACK/YELLOW wires in the upper kick behind the fuses, 3 BLACK/YELLOW wires at the lower kick down on the actual floor under the carpet, and it doesnt look like any of them are the same, but Im gonna check them all. Sadly all of them were constant grounds. 12v at rest on the DMM. I didnt want to give up just yet so I went to the passenger side and thought I would check there as well. Good news! More BLACK/YELLOW wires. I think between the kick panel and under the carpet beside the seat there were 6 more wires that I tested. All with the same result. 12v at rest. I give up for now lol. She just isnt ready to be found.
Since the door triggers now work I can finally enter programming. I successfully initiated a tach learn. The first crank, the starter hung again, but the Avital cut itself off, re crunk and this time the starter disengaged as it was supposed to. It also stayed running which told me the Avital knew it didnt need to do the "3rd attempt" it is programmed to do if still unsuccessfully learned. I suppose this means the remote start side of the install is finally finished.
So finally, almost everything is working! All doors unlock and lock, the system arms and disarms, the doors trigger correctly. I am finally ready to clean out all the wire bits and electrical tape thats now insulating my floorboards. There have been quite a few other components installed aside from the Avital system so I'm excited to start putting the car back in order. I push all the carpet back and clean everything up. I'm going to keep the panels off for a few days just to be sure, but everything else gets cleaned and setup like before.
I take the car for a 5 mile victory lap. I still have a few more things to do to the car so I pull it back in the garage because Im ready to park it for the night, but just 1 more time lets see all that hard work paying off in action. I hit the R/S button, the car comes to life and starts, I hit it again, it dies. I hit the arm button and the car flashes and arms.. but I dont hear a clunk. I hit disarm, 2 flashes, no clunk. I go sit in the car and try again. more flashes, no clunks. Somehow someway the unlock/lock has now quit working. it still arms and disarms the Avital, but no locking or unlocking of any of the doors at all. I also notice the LED is blinking 3 times instead of its normal 2. It was like someone kicked the wind out of me. It was all working an hour ago, I hadn't even really worked on the drivers kick side. I was careful putting the carpet back in as well.. I tested the factory fob and it still locks and unlocks as expected. Defeated yet again, I grabbed a double and retired for the evening. How can 1 person be this unlucky?
I also want to bring up the horn. Yesterday I couldn't find a single issue from the Avital to the horn wire. I honestly dont know why this alarm will not honk the horn on a single press, on a double press, a triple, or even just keep pressing it over and over.. Never a horn honk. That being said, the button on the wheel works, the panic on both fobs work, and if you set the alarm off too. It works at every occasion except arming. Could it be in a silent mode?
So thats where we leave off for now, still incomplete. I pray that my remaining problems can be figured out quickly, maybe i'm in some kind off mode preventing the Avital from locking and unlocking the doors. That sounds silly to me, but 2 separate circuits are failing at the same time, even me knocking both the lock and unlock wires loose is jut too far fetched for me. Maybe all those arm and disarms with the door open before the test drive somehow programmed a problem. I'm not sure, all I know is for 20 minutes yesterday with the exception of the trunk pin, the install was working perfectly.
This is going to be the longest thread on this site before I can sign off on it being complete! lmao (but sadly)
I may try to enter programming today and play around. It may be helpful to reset the unit to factory if it has a way to do it.
Wish me luck please lol!