I installed a remote starter/alarm that included the keyless entry for my 95 Bonneville. Everything worked except for the trunk release which I attempted to interface at the trunk release switch on the driver's door. I opened the driver side door and found a blue wire on one side of the trunk release switch and a ORANGE / black on the other side. The volt meter indicated pressing the switch put 12 volts onto the ORANGE / black wire. This lead me to think that all I needed to trigger the release was to have the remote put 12 volts (using a relay) to the ORANGE / black wire.
However, after I tried to open it with the remote, it didn't release the trunk AND the trunk switch doesn't work anymore! I found the wiring for installing alarms at this web site indicates using the blue (-) wire in the Drivers Door Boot. If thats true then the trunk release switch is really switching in ground from the ORANGE / black wire and NOT the 12 volts I originally thought.
Now the question is how do I fix the switch? Where does the ORANGE / black wire go? I bought a Chilton repair manual but it doesn't give all the wiring details (no trunk wiring details).
Also there are several blue wires coming out of the door. How I find the correct one?
Also the remote's installation wiring for this car said to use the BLACK/ white wire in the driver's side kick panel and use a relay to switch in 12 volts. However, I'd prefer to skip the relay if all I need to do is use the remote's output which happens to be ground when activated.
If your vehicle has trunk ajar indicator on the dash, then the *RED / black* wire which is located low in the drivers kick panel, may be used.
The trunk is (-) negative BTW, and IF you havent noticed the orange / black wire can be obtained from either the trunk light, or the switch.
You require a relay, redardless to do this properly.
30 = To trunk release switch / soleniod.
85 = Fused +12 VDC
86 = (-) Trigger output from RS / Alarm unit.
87 = (-) Chassis ground, affixed with a star washer, SS screw, proper ring terminal, and dielectric grease compond.
Regards
EVIL Teken . . .
First I want to say thanks for the help!
I recently had my mechanic print out the wiring info when he fixed an unrelated issue with the bonniville so now I see what I did wrong. The ORANGE / black wire is switched to ground by the transaxle gear selector when the car is in park or neutral (which makes sense from a safety standpoint). So when I wired it wrong I was putting 12 Volts to the gear switch to ground which obviously burn't out the switch.
Now I have two solutions, 1) wire the relay on the other side of the trunk switch (blue wire) and have a relay switch in ground from the RS/Alarm unit. OR 2) use a relay to directly power the trunk release via the BLACK/ white wires to run to it.
Just wanted to let everyone know what the problem and the correct wiring was. Thanks again for the help.