code alarm 530 remote starter trouble

Hi every one this is my first post here and I need some help.

This unit is in a 2006 ford f150 5.4


--First is when you start the truck with the remote then go to adjust the heater control knobs with out the key in it kills the engine....

--Second the other morning I started the truck with the remote, it started, then after about 4 seconds it killed the engine, then it retried to start it, it started and ran again for about 4 seconds then killed the engine again.. then would not retry. I started it again with the remote it started and ran for about 4 second again
then shut down... Tried it again only to have it do the same thing... it has only done this one time during this start up.


---Today started the truck with the remote starter and stayed running, then went to unlock the doors with the remote, then it killed the engine when I hit the unlock button......went to see
if I could have it do it again.... nope works fine, tried later and works like it should.


It's like that all of these problems started after I hooked up the tach wire, But I know I am at the right one because the unit programmed fine, and honked
every three seconds to confirm the tach signal.

Thanks for the help

Josh


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What bypass did you use? and how did you trigger it?

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It is a caxk04 Immobilizer Bypass

I have a link for it if you want?

What do you mean on how did I trigger it?

Sorry i am kind of a newbie at this

Josh

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06f150 wrote:

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It's like that all of these problems started after I hooked up the tach wire, But I know I am at the right one because the unit programmed fine, and honked
every three seconds to confirm the tach signal.

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This is where I think your problem is too. Did you go to a fuel injector or the tachometer wire for this signal? It sounds to me kind of like when you activate any electrical accessory it drops the voltage on the line that you are tapped into and the remote start sees this and shuts down. Does the system you have offer any type of diagnostics? Can the system tell you what the reason for shutting down was?

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Installer, IT support, and FFL. I need less hobbies.

I picked it up at the ignition coil...

As far as it having a diagnostics system I dont delieve so.... The weired thing is that it does not do it every time....

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Ok, I went to start the truck and it started fine and stayed running ...But I bet when I go to start it tomorrow morning it will show one of theses problems again.... WOW this is weired

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I can only speak from my own experience, but on Ford vehicles I use only a fuel injector for tachometer reference. Although I can not speak on your specific model year I can say that the 01 F150 behaves as you are describing with the inconsistent starting. Some times it will start fine then others it will stop right before it catches. Moving to the injector it starts every time, in 01 I made it a rule to only use an injector in Fords with a 100% success rate since then.

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Installer, IT support, and FFL. I need less hobbies.

Thanks Twelvoltz, I will try switching it to a fuel injector when I get some time off work.


Anybody else have any ideas, or have the unit I am talking about?


Thanks for the help!


Josh

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Well It has been a week since I have changed the tach wire over to a fuel injector, and all problems have been solved...Thanks Twelvoltz for your help!!

Happy New Years to everyone

Josh

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well, I have more problems...I first posted about this problem https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp~TID~100097~PN~4 , after switching the tach wire over to a fuel injector it solved all of those problems.

Now when it is down to around zero the truck will not start on the first try, but the unit will retry a second time which then it start, but if it is in the teens or above it will start on the first try...so that is telling me the unit is not cranking long enough...right?

The unit is in tach mode and has learned a tach signal, It also states in the installation book when in tach mode it will crank for four seconds or until the vehicle has started, which it is not.

I called tech support and they said to try a different fuel injector, I don't think this in the problem as when in the teens and above it starts the first time, so it must me getting a tach signal right?

Please help me
06 ford f150 5.4L
Thanks Josh    



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that truck has seperate coils did you try one of them yet, sometimes injector reading can be very "iffy".

Yep, if you read my other post I was at an coil first and all kinds of thing started happing.

I was told that an injector was better other an coil?



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What do you mean it "will not start on the first try ..."

a) will crank for ___ seconds and then stop, then retry cranking and successfully start...

b) will attempt a weak crank.. stop, retry and then crank to a successful start...

c) only accessory and ignition power comes on, no crank... no start... then retry and successful start...

d) none of the above

e) some of the above

What are you using for immobilizer bypass....?

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The search function is your friend.

peterubers wrote:

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What do you mean it "will not start on the first try ..."

a) will crank for ___ seconds and then stop, then retry cranking and successfully start...

b) will attempt a weak crank.. stop, retry and then crank to a successful start...

c) only accessory and ignition power comes on, no crank... no start... then retry and successful start...

d) none of the above

e) some of the above

What are you using for immobilizer bypass....?

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That would be A, it cranks like it would still be set on a 1.5 adj. crank time witch it is not though. Bypass is a CODE Alarm XK04 Ford Transponder Bypass Module

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Unplug your bypass and put the key in.....try R/S.

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I would but it only is getting into the teens at night, so I'll have to wait till it gets colder next next.

why do you think that it is the bypass? Since it is starting fine on the second go,

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ok, I just got off the phone with whom I bought the unit from and he is sending me a new brain out at no charge. He said the some times the tach signal is so low that the unit does not pick it up, basically the brain is just jacked up, When I talked to Code alarm customer service they also send this could be the problem. So he is sending out a new brain on Monday and should get it by Wednesday of next week.

So I guess I will wait and see, I am still open to suggestions if
anybody has them.

Thanks for the help!!
Josh

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So I put in the new brain two days ago, reprogrammed the tach, worked fine when i was testing it out. Now today it is about 0F degrees out, went to start the truck, it cranked it for four different times(cranking then stop, then re crank then stop, etc four times) and still did not start. Hit the start button again and it when through it four more times with out starting it, a total of 8 cranking attempts. Hit the start button again then on the first try it started the truck, it run for 3 or 4 seconds then shut off.

Now what I did notice it that the theft light on the truck was solid red, when it was attempting to start the truck.

I am thinking bypass but... why would the truck start fine when it is a little warmer outside and not when it is cold like this as when I was testing it it was working fine??

Thanks again

Josh

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Solid red means the bypass is good. If the bypass were bad, the light would flash rapidly.

That truck has an anti-overcrank feature from the factory.........that is, you can hold the key in the Start position as long as you want, and the engine will still start and run perfectly.

You might just try switching to voltage sense mode, and adjust the crank time to 1.5 or even 2.0 seconds, and see how that goes.