01 VW beetle remote starter
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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=21998
Printed Date: May 21, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Topic: 01 VW beetle remote starter
Posted By: streetstyle
Subject: 01 VW beetle remote starter
Date Posted: November 26, 2003 at 3:57 PM
Does the 01' Beetle have a transponder key?/
Replies:
Posted By: vaderfop
Date Posted: November 26, 2003 at 4:45 PM
Yes, you will need a bypass to remote start this car.
Use DEI part# 555U
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Remember check all your wires with a DMM!
Posted By: mxxmikexx
Date Posted: November 27, 2003 at 4:30 PM
I havent worked on many VW's, are there any tips or shortcuts anyone can offer on this 01' VW beetle? techsoft says to get doorlock wires in the drivers door, is this true?
thanks for any help
Mike
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Mike Battaglia
Specialized Car Audio
Bensenville IL 60106
Posted By: Javelin3o4
Date Posted: November 28, 2003 at 2:56 AM
probably from where the wires enter into the door from inside the car, or from the switches themselves.
Posted By: gus1
Date Posted: December 02, 2003 at 3:39 PM
The 01's should have the Immobilizer (Switchblade key). The only place to get doorlock wires is at the keyswitch in the door.... not the door switches... has to be the exterior chamber harness. Short pulses, double unlock(or single for driver's priority!) Here's something neat.... wanna roll the windows up and down? Same wires, longer pulse (latched, timed). Might as well do trunk release as well, negative pulse, gotta pull two wires into the door anyways, make it a third (hint, REAL PITA to run wires into the door!). Tach is found at the ECU under the driver's side top dash panel (Take centre panel on top of dash, slide towards windshield, remove, 3 T20 screws near windshield , then the two large flat pieces come out. Then 5 more T20 on the next panel underneath that, then there's the ECU) Tach is light GREEN/ red on the left connector (TDI). For a gasser, go to a coilpack underneath hood for tach. If it's a diesel, there's NO glowplug light wire at the cluster that you can use... everything is multiplexed or part of the CAN bus. (same goes for tach). For glowplug, set it for a timed delay, 20 seconds is lots. Also, Parking brake is found at relay #173 (DRL relay) at relay bank under dash. You could go to the parking brake itself if you've got a couple hours to kill taking apart the centre console :-) . Oh, doorpin is in the door as well. Everything coming out of the door is multiplexed, so digging around in the kickpanel is futile at best... I think you can get trunk, but that's about it AFAIK. Once you do one, you'll see that they aren't bad at all to work on, just different. And, the added bonus??? All the Golfs, Jettas, and NB's are on the same basic platform (known as the MKIV chassis) so there are numerous similarities (Add the audi A4 to this as well!). I spent around 25 hrs on my own 2001 TDI 5spd. NB disassembling the car and familiarizing myself with VW wiring/build techniques..... very different way of doing things over there in VW land!..... Have fun, take your time, use your meter to your advantage! BTW.... my 2004 Jetta Wagon TDI will be here this week..... I can't wait to take that sucker apart! Gus ------------- Wherever I go, that is where I end up......
Posted By: derek123
Date Posted: December 02, 2003 at 5:41 PM
just gave mine back ( 1999 2.0 L) after a long term lease. For RS I got all the wires in the car. Locks trunk gas cap in the door. windows too with constant while pressed feature, as mentioned above. lights at the switch ( on a single wire !!) hoodpin and doorpin at the alarm and tach and e brake behind the cluster No tranponder on mine. think they started that on all the dub's in 2000... ?
Posted By: mxxmikexx
Date Posted: December 02, 2003 at 8:14 PM
I havent done the car yet, but isnt the switchblade key to fat to fit in the 555u keybox? isnt the head of the vw switchblade physically to big to use a keybox?
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Mike Battaglia
Specialized Car Audio
Bensenville IL 60106
Posted By: Justaguy
Date Posted: December 03, 2003 at 1:47 AM
the transponder is in the middle of the key, near the end of the metal part, just before the plastic. Just cut apart the 555u so that the end of the key will stick out throught the 555u, and make sure that the transponder in the key is in the middle of the coil on the u. Just did a 03 today, lucky me. -------------
Posted By: mxxmikexx
Date Posted: December 03, 2003 at 10:07 AM
im doing the car tomorrow. So if an average remote start and keyless entry takes me about an hour and a half, how much time should i expect to add onto this car, with grabbing the tach at the ecu, and running wires through the doorboot which everyone says is a pain in the a#$.?
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Mike Battaglia
Specialized Car Audio
Bensenville IL 60106
Posted By: gus1
Date Posted: December 03, 2003 at 11:51 AM
use the valet/service key in the 555U...... it fits. (it's the non switchblade FWIW :-)) We add an extra hour for the VW/Audi stuff due to the amount of disassembly/reassembly time. Other than that....... not too bad to do. gus ------------- Wherever I go, that is where I end up......
Posted By: streetstyle
Date Posted: December 04, 2003 at 3:33 PM
I just started to get into this beetle for a remote start and keyless install. In order to drop the lower dash panel, do you have to remove the entire radio bezel to get to some screws that hold the lower dash panel on? and to remove the radio do i need VW keys, or can i improvise somehow? and just by looking at how the factory door boot is, how the he#$ do i fish wires through for locks and trunk??? This may be my first and last VW install...........
Posted By: streetstyle
Date Posted: December 04, 2003 at 7:09 PM
Cant find the right tach wire for a 2000 VW beetle. DEI techsoft and audiovox tech says GREEN/ brown at the ecu. i measured the wire with a dmm and it has about 3 volts at idle and 0 voltage when engine is off, and it does change with engine rpm. however the audiovox aps-685 im using with it wont learn the tach signal, and ive tried another audiovox brain hoping that maybe the brain was bad, but it still wont learn it. does anyone know for sure if i have the right tach wire at the ecu? i was told by someone else that it is a GREEN/ red, but there is no GREEN/ red at the ecu. so right now im SOL any help would be appreciated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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