door lock pulse too long?

Sound like you are testing the install and not  "letting it sit" On a MkIII Golf if you turn thr alarm off within the total close time set ie about 15secs. this will happen. Just wait 30secs. and then see if it happens. In real life how often are you going to turn alarm off within 12secs.?

Kevin P might be right I've never tried that but Jeff, its a vacuum system so NO MOTOR WIRES!

Jeff, these are NOT MOTOR wires they are the trigger wires they join the same colours from the other door to the vacuum pump behind the r/hand tail light. In your fine picture you can clearly see the vacuum line.

Chris you are right, I use that method to get differential closing on late E36 3 series BMW's. If you have the roof down initiating lock will open it a fraction (about 11/2 secs). I end up with a relay set to 33secs for the roof a relay set (on arm) for 2secs controlled by the alarms auxilliary outputs.for deadlocking and a timer to turn off locks after 0.8secs.

If you read my last post you will see why the pulse timer relay is unneccessary unless MMH1 has SET UNLOCK TIME DELAY AS WELL AS LOCK OR LEFT ON A 3.5 SEC PULSE (remember the old M/Benz Audi's?)

SORRY YOU TWO, THAT JUST OCCURRED TO ME

I've done loads of MkIII's, if you trn off alarm inside of the initial time delay it will always bring down the windows for what's left of that delay. You get a similar result with E36 BMW where you can turn off the alarm inside the delay time but the doors will stay locked

PS for Jeff's benefit (Velocity motors) I know I'm being anal but the only way to do a 5wire or MORE CORRECTLY MOTOR INTERRUPT would be to go into the rear pump unit and go into the leads coming from the circuit board to the motor and having stripped and repaired them (M/Benz, Audi and VW are all basically the same) you don't want to do that!

In other words the lock motors on these vehicles were pumps not electric solenoids.

No problems Jeff its just that I've been back in the UK since 83, installing Clifford product since '90 when we imported them privately, I seem to have spent the intervening time mostly on BMW, VW-Audi and Japanese grey (fast and furious wannabee) imports.

I'm a complete rookie when it comes to GM Chrysler and US Ford except Mustang and Focus, my only by-pass knowledge is DEI 'cause that's all we've got here, hell I've got 20 assorted Clifford, Viper etc T shirts because I've written the hymnsheet on European cars. Any knowledge I have on Fortin, Trilogix, Compustar etc. has been kindly given to me by KarTune Man, Enice and Swerks.

You may or may not realise that Euro GM 's (Vauxhall-Opel) are more similar electrically to VW than their US brethren, Honda Civic and CRX  are made here, and are different to US made variants (Just go on the US and UK Honda websites, look at interiors and you will see what I mean)

Alarms are different too, I might start a post to enlighten our US friends on CAT I alarms, direction indicators, fenders v.  wings, trunks and  hoods v. boots and bonnects!