dealerships
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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.
URL: https://www.the12volt.com/installbay/forum_posts.asp?tid=133387
Printed Date: May 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Topic: dealerships
Posted By: cmk0808ny
Subject: dealerships
Date Posted: January 22, 2013 at 7:38 AM
For the people who do dealerships, do you guys install hood pins or the shutdown toggle switches? Do you leave a owners manual for the system?
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Posted By: chev104275
Date Posted: January 22, 2013 at 7:46 AM
I do hood pins and leave the owners guide but not the install guide
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If i Can't Install it I Don't need it Joe
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: January 22, 2013 at 10:27 AM
We'd be done for not installing/connecting to existing and yes, always the owners, never the install.
How can you not do a hood pin on an R/S?
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Amateurs assume, don't test and have problems; pros test first. I am not a free install service.
Read the installation manual, do a search here or online for your vehicle wiring before posting.
Posted By: kreg357
Date Posted: January 22, 2013 at 2:03 PM
See it often. Just had a 2002 Oldsmobile Bravada in the shop. An older Dealer install of a Audiovox Pro9275 R/S system with a GMDL1 door lock module and PLDATA bypass module. Just needed the PLDATA reset and the Passlock2 re-learned. Checked it over and there was no hood pin. Didn't use Scotch Super 33+ electric tape either...
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Soldering is fun!
Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: January 22, 2013 at 4:37 PM
ive seen some horrible dealership jobs myself. the fact is that the dealership will charge the customer a crazy amount of money and then find the cheapest place to install which usually involves cheap materials, t-taps, missing connections and cut corners.
always use a hoodpin, its more of a safety feature than a security feature for when people work under your hood.
never leave the install manual, never, nothing good can come from a customer poking around in the settings menu.
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Posted By: KPierson
Date Posted: January 22, 2013 at 6:54 PM
It doesn't matter who I do work for, hood pins and tach wires get hooked up.
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Kevin Pierson
Posted By: lucasoil4u
Date Posted: January 24, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Agree With KPIERSON! ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS us tach wire and Hood pin!
Posted By: racerjames76
Date Posted: January 24, 2013 at 3:15 PM
We stopped doing hoodpins a while back 5-7 years i think. We are in ohio where the salt eats those hood pins alive. We are required to place a warning sticker under the hood that is bright yellow saying the vehicle is equipped with remote start device. We were replacing hoodpins at least 5 a day back then before we quit putting them in. Caused way more trouble than they were worth. Tach is hooked up unless we can demonstrate that the vehicle has bump/tip start.  ------------- To master and control electricity is perfection. *evil laugh*
Posted By: soundnsecurity
Date Posted: January 24, 2013 at 8:04 PM
if you cant use a hood pin then you can use a sealed mercury switch. i use them on some vehicles where a hoodpin is hard to add.
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Posted By: lucasoil4u
Date Posted: January 25, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Yeah Sealed Mercury Switch
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