2000 vw passat doortrigger falsing
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Forum Name: Car Security and Convenience
Forum Discription: Car Alarms, Keyless Entries, Remote Starters, Immobilizer Bypasses, Sensors, Door Locks, Window Modules, Heated Mirrors, Heated Seats, etc.
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Topic: 2000 vw passat doortrigger falsing
Posted By: cobrar980
Subject: 2000 vw passat doortrigger falsing
Date Posted: November 19, 2010 at 1:21 PM
Alright guys, installed an old Viper 5900 into a 2000 Vw Passat the other day. Remote start portion of this is working fine. What I'm having issues with is the alarm portion.
I went to blue/gray for door triggers, which also tests as the domelight wire. 12v with the door closed/domelight off and is a negative trigger when the doors are opened/domelight on. The problem I'm having is that every 80 min or so, this wire must change status enough to cause the viper alarm to register a door trigger alarm. I've tried using a relay to isolate this change of state - 85: Blue/gray door trigger wire, 86: 12v constant, 30: ground, 87: connected to Viper Green door trigger input wire. This didn't fix anything as the Viper alarm still goes off after 80min.
I've seen a couple other posts about this, one says to use TechDoc 1076 Diagram B, but there is no diagram B on this techdoc. Using diodes as listed, the domelight doesn't work at all, which doesn't let this wire function as a trigger.
I've also read about using a relay with Ground-When-Armed as 85, 86:constant 12v, 30: constant 12v w/10k ohm resistor, and 87 going to the Blue/gray wire. Any luck with this?
I've tested every wire coming into the car from the door boot and nothing tests as a door trigger wire, I was hoping to find a straight door trigger as opposed to a domelight/trigger wire. Nothing
Beyond taking the door panel off and physically testing the wires at the latch for a straight trigger wire, any suggestions? And by the way, on this car, the doors are not an open cavity once you get the panel off, there is a sheet of steel riveted to the inner door frame with rubber grommet access panels, which would make testing at the latch.....well fill in the blank.....
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Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: November 19, 2010 at 4:22 PM
It won't be the door trigger unless you have a faulty door trigger.
The way the Passat's control unit is configured the blue/grey is on the output side of the sleeper circuit and NOT affected by the timer pulses.
What ARE are the trunk trigger (thin BROWN / black I believe) and hood (BROWN / red I believe)they go to the input side of the control unit and I always use 1076 (blocking diodes, cheaper than a relay)on them.
Going to the dome light feed is irrelevant and won't cure your problem, go to the trunk (tailgate) and hood triggers.
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Posted By: cobrar980
Date Posted: November 19, 2010 at 4:57 PM
i'll have to look at that. I'm pretty sure when the viper unit is tripped, it shows a door as the zone, not the trunk or hood. I'll diode isolate each and see where we go.
Posted By: cobrar980
Date Posted: November 21, 2010 at 11:02 AM
PROBLEM SOLVED......You have to go into each door, there is a BROWN / Black wire that tests as a true door trigger, but does not come through the door boot. Have to run your own wires in. Hood and trunk diode isolation is irrelevent for this install.....
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