remote starter - Starts then dies
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Topic: remote starter - Starts then dies
Posted By: mmfur@aol.com
Subject: remote starter - Starts then dies
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 2:57 PM
On a 96 Jeep Cherokee, it is an American Accessories 2 way FM remote starter with Alarm. The problem is that the jeep starts and then dies. The brain is cutting the power to the 2 on wires. Any ideas why? Everything is wired correctly and working. The only tough wire was the tach and I'm hitting a gray wire at the coil which showed me 4.8V at idle and increased as I increased the idle. Please help
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Posted By: mo12v
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 3:01 PM
Black / Gray at coil on Cherokee
Gray / White at coil on Grand Cherokee
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Posted By: Roy dz
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 3:02 PM
Did you program tach signal. not familliar with american accesories but most remote starts need tach signal programed.
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Aftermarket Electronics since 92
Posted By: mmfur@aol.com
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 3:03 PM
I didn't see any black wires on my Cherokee as the database said. I saw gray, and two greens with stripes I forget the colors. mo12v] wrote:
lack / Gray at coil on Cherokee
Gray / White at coil on Grand Cherokee
Posted By: mmfur@aol.com
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 3:05 PM
Roy dz wrote:
Did you program tach signal. not familliar with american accesories but most remote starts need tach signal programed.
I know I went through the steps tho now that I think about it, I'm not sure i got the confirmation chirp. I'll go try that. Would that lead to the start then die problem?
Posted By: misterjimbo
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 3:10 PM
An impropely learned tach signal can cause that problem. I usually let the car run for a while while it is in programming mode, especially on older cars.
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Posted By: mmfur@aol.com
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 4:02 PM
OK so now this is weird. There are 3 wires off the coil gray, GREEN/ red & black gray. I have a gray wire which shows about 5V at idle. I found the black and gray at the coil which showed 12V, the GREEN/ red also showed 12V I could not get the brain to learn the tach signal with the 5V gray wire, but it did learn it with the BLACK/ gray wire (12V). I got confirmation with the BLACK/ gray but not the gray only. No difference tho, still starts and then dies.
Posted By: NowYaKnow
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 5:21 PM
If your not, you should be testing the tach wires on AC voltage, not DC.
Mike
Posted By: mmfur@aol.com
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 5:27 PM
It was AC, thanks NowYaKnow wrote:
If your not, you should be testing the tach wires on AC voltage, not DC.
Mike
Posted By: mmfur@aol.com
Date Posted: October 26, 2004 at 7:07 PM
misterjimbo wrote:
An impropely learned tach signal can cause that problem. I usually let the car run for a while while it is in programming mode, especially on older cars.
BINGO - I changed the tach wire to the gray/blue by the ECM and same thing, starts then stops even after I went through the tach learning mode. I went through the learning mode again and I let it run for 5 minutes straight and VIOLA it works. Thanks to everyone for your help
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