Car Alarm, yourself

What you will need to do is to find what all the wires are suppose to be and then match them up to the new system. Solder & shrink tube wrap the connections. It's pretty simple as long as the first installation was done right to re-wire in a new system.

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA

I'm trying to install a KARR2040a car alarm on my 1999 intripid, and i need a wiring diagram could anybody plz held. thanks jerry

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jerry g

infamoustp wrote:

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I already have car alarm installed that came with one LCD remote and its falling apart. I have checked everywhere and they sell it for $100. Thats pretty steep. I noticed another car alarm system which came with two new LCD remotes and looked better and it will cost me pretty much the same as paying for that one replacement LCD remote. Now, they charged me like $275 to install the one I have now. I did do the installs for my car audio and car video no problem. It was a great learning experience and saved me a lot of money on the installation, but since I never did car security and reading a couple of forums, I just decided to have someone professional do it and they did do a great job on everything.

 

Now my question is, could I just install the system my self by following whats installed currently. I do have the cars wiring diagram and all and thinking with the help of the current alarm thats installed and just looking at the connections one by one, could I just do this myself and save some money, I really don't want to spend another $275 for installation?

 

Any advice guys? Thanks in advance

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Houston Texas

jerry4c00rs wrote:

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I'm trying to install a KARR2040a car alarm on my 1999 intripid, and i need a wiring diagram could anybody plz held. thanks jerry

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start a new thread for this, dont hijack someone elses.

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double-secret reverse-osmosis speaker-cone-induced high-level interference distortion, Its a killer

I would suggest spending a few greenbacks and getting a digital mulit-meter if you don't have one already, that way you can also test as you install to verify before connecting. Also set aside some time and don't rush, you should be ok.

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Go for it.  I did my first install of a Clifford 10.5 in my Dakota, and it went fine.  If you can to audio/video, you shouldn't have a problem with an alarm.

it'll be ok when you doing it on a car with an alarm on already

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Why oh Why didn't i take the blue pill
Darren Power

As a BSEE, be Anti-Static aware. Static burns out electronics at bare connector pins with 10,000 volts. NEVER directly touch connector pins of the alarm brain. Don't be cheap. Buy a 'static strap', clip from vehicle ground to your wrist, when touching the brain.

Do it in sections. Verify the alarm brain works first. That means, power and ground, door triggers, default sensor (shock), antenna, and siren. INPUTS & OUTPUTS.

Electrical tape ALL exposed wire ends, individually. Leave no wire ends exposed.

DMM check EVERY input first, then connect wire to brain harness.

Alarm companies are technical illiterate, so do this.
Write on install diagrams:

1) Signal INPUT or OUTPUT for all connections
2) 2 kinds of connections to vehicle: 'T'-TAP or CUT

Skip those and risk letting the smoke out of electronics.
Do those and worry less. :-)

I do like the alarms and the remote starters with the LCD transmitter.But when I talk to a lot of people I ask them "Think of the abuse you put your set of keys through in a year?"I then ask them if they know of a friend with a system with a LCD transmitter.They almost all say the transmitters fail in about a year.In lots of cases I have set people, who had the LCD transmitters fail and switch them to the normal push button transmitter.This is a lot cheaper.

Do it. I did my first two alarms just by following advice and tips from everyone here. Is not that difficult, just got to know what everything is and where it goes. Good luck.