2001 Caravan remote starter problem

What do these resistors have to be in regards to wattage, voltage?   Are they a 12V automotive part rather than the normal electronics resistor?

hello, i think i'm gonna jump into this conv myself, since i'm the one who installed it   i've read over all the replys so far, the tach wire i had on the blue/green wire at the coil and the command start unit self tach's. once he came back i changed the tach source to the blue/orange (if my memory serves me right) and still the same, i have the "cold start" wire running from the "ground out when running" wire going through a pair of resistors that equal high 180 ohm when i use my multimeter on them. only thing i can't remember right off is the colour wire i had them going to, i'm assuming since i got the print out from installer companion 3 program that it would be violet/purple like was mentioned in one of the other replys. the only reason i never used an injector for the tach source was because of the resivoir (beleive power sterring not sure) was blocking my path to the injector wire and i don't think the customer would like me ripping apart half his motor   but other then that all the wires and conections are solid. the only thing i can think of is maybe where i've got two resistors in series to get close to the 180 ohm mark might have something to do with it..i can't see it...but i'm running out of ideas. 

i even put it in "smart start" where it sense's the engines voltage and that still didn't change anything, after that is when i change'd out the unit itself.

The wonder of the Internet, where you end up talking to the fellow on the other end!

I dropped off at your shop some things I printed off on the Net... I'm just a novice as to car wiring, and I can see that multiplex stuff now will keep me out of fiddling for good... but we both have a stake in things, being it's my car and I would really like to have my wife be able to start it on the cold winter mornings (particularly since on the worse days she usually has to go to work while I stay home (teacher and school is cancelled)--- she's a little more understanding if she can start the car from inside!).... and I'm sure you think of it as a challenge you'd like to defeat.

I was wondering, looking at some of the wiring charts... (forgive me if it's a stupid question) -- did you hook the second starter output from the start control direct through the resistor to the cold start wire?  The sketches show the 2nd starter just controlling a relay that grounds the cold start wire though the 180 ohm resistor.. separate circuit just closed by the 2nd start output.

That auex post came while I was typing mine... same idea... but I don't think he needs the two relays triggered by the starter output of the unit (though it could be done that way) because there is a second starter output on this particular remote start unit... one can trigger the starter and one (2nd starter) trigger the cold start relay.

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If there IS in fact a second starter output wire, why was it wired to the "grnd when running wire"??

auex is spot on this one. 

It needs a signal ONLY when the remote starter goes to crank.  It does NOT matter if they both crank the starter when it's already warm, but it cannot see a constant signal! It won't trigger the cold start function in the ecu.

Something is definitely not wired correctly. I've done a few of these with no problems too. And all I did was take a signal off the starter output wire to trigger the second relay. Never a comeback, just a couple more happy soccer moms.

This from another thread on the topic....  does this sound correct, guys?  (Though the diode route sounds too complicated when the relays will do the job)

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And my crude drawing of the way I see a relay connecting the cold start wire thru the resistor to ground, tapping into the starter#1 wire for activation of the relay while it's also triggering the starter....   (no terminals on relay, since I don't know them..... presume they are like my post above.   This approach is not using the Starter#2 output from the remote start module... why use it if you already have the output from Starter #1 (positive) available?

Remember that I really don't know what I'm talking about here... two days of experience talking.  Confirm, please.

Whooah!   Should have previewed that obviously... looked OK as I posted it.  Please delete, moderator.  I'll repeat text here and just link to image...'

And my crude drawing of the way I see a relay connecting the cold start wire thru the resistor to ground, tapping into the starter#1 wire for activation of the relay while it's also triggering the starter....   (no terminals on relay, since I don't know them..... presume they are like my post above.   This approach is not using the Starter#2 output from the remote start module... why use it if you already have the output from Starter #1 (positive) available?

Remember that I really don't know what I'm talking about here... two days of experience talking.  Confirm, please.

http://fwperry.net/coldstart.gif