Disconnecting Avital System

Hi Lesli, Fellow Formula fan here. Removing it should not be too difficult, unless the alarm install was well-hidden. But, once you find the alarm, you might want to use a multimeter and check it for current draw-----to make sure that it is (or isn't) the cause of your battery drain. 1. You have to locate the alarm brain, the main black box that controls everything. Here are some good ways to do it. A. Make the alarm go off, and listen for clicking under the dash......the alarm brain will make clicking sounds as it flashes the car's parking lights on and off. B. Follow the wires from the backside of the LED light, or siren, or valet switch, and see where they go. 2. Once you find the alarm brain, it is probably held in place by zip-ties, screws, or both. Unfasten it and let it hang down. 3. Find the 5-amp fuse, and remove it---this will disable the alarm. You might want to put a multimeter to the two fuse terminals, and test for current draw. (You will also see a white wire, with a 10-amp fuse, but that is just for the parking light flasher.) 4. Follow all of the wires from the alarm, see where they go, and disconnect them from the car's wiring. Be sure to tape up the car's wires well, to avoid future problems. In most cases, the wires from the alarm will simply be spliced into the car's wiring----just disconnect them by cutting, or undo the tape and unravel the alarm's wire. The one exception is the car's starter wire-------to install the starter kill feature, the installer would have cut the Pontiac's thick yellow starter wire in half, connecting each half to the Avital's starter-kill relay. Cut the relay away, and connect the Pontiac's yellow starter wire back together. Be sure to do a good job, because if this connection comes loose, the car will not start.