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ande250

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Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:09 PM / IP Logged

I currently have a Viper 160 remote starter in my 2002 Grand Am GT1 that was put in by best buy. At the time I did not have alot of money to put into this and really just wanted a basic remote start but as time goes on and prices drop, i find myself wanting a more feature rich setup.

My question is can I buy one of the higher end viper remote starts with the LCD paging and just unhook the brain of my viper 160 and connect the new brain and it work? This would be something I can do that myself instead of spending money to get that kit installed? Why get it (re)installed if the wires are already there.

In theory it sounds like this would work but I am not sure if there are more wires necessary to install.

Has anyone ever tried this? Any ideas of how this could work?

cmk0808ny

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Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:12 PM / IP Logged

yuo can just get the new antenna and remote to the type that you want- program and youre done.

ande250

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Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:20 PM / IP Logged

ok i can get a LCD remote

Any idea where i can get antennas and how to program it?

Will still do paging functions and let me know when the car has started etc....

cmk0808ny

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Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:25 PM / IP Logged

ebay or a google search may find it- you need a responder antenna and antenna cable and a 479 series lcd responder remote.

look at

http://www.autotechs.com/items/item891.htm

cmk0808ny

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Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:28 PM / IP Logged

or buy a viper 5500- one mile range with sst technology

swap the brain antenna cable, antenna and remote. then resell your old remotes and module and make some money back on ebay if you wanted to.

ande250

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Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:33 PM / IP Logged

so if i bought that kit from autotech i wouldnt need to program anything or would i? that just looks like the easiest way to upgrade.

cmk0808ny

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Posted: June 28, 2007 at 9:36 PM / IP Logged

plug in the antenna and program the remote to the remote starter module (very easy to do) and thats it. 5 minutes of work.

ande250

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Posted: July 08, 2007 at 4:10 PM / IP Logged

i have asked that autotech.com tech support to double check if that kit would work with a viper 160 and they said it was not compatible.

Any alternate ideas?? thanks

cmk0808ny

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Posted: July 08, 2007 at 6:21 PM / IP Logged

that is the right kit to get. that is the only one that will give you lcd responder remotes.

ande250

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Posted: July 08, 2007 at 10:03 PM / IP Logged

do you know for sure that its compatible and will give me 2 way operation

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