new car battery, alarm won’t respond
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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.
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Printed Date: September 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Topic: new car battery, alarm won’t respond
Posted By: Vansolo
Subject: new car battery, alarm won’t respond
Date Posted: December 09, 2007 at 8:36 PM
As the topic stated. I just install a new car battery into my wife's SUV and now the aftermarket alarm won't respond to our remotes. She is driving a Toy Highlander and the alarm install in the SUV is a Clifford Solaris with remote start. The car alarm won't sound (which is good), and I cannot even put it into valet mode. I also check the fuses to the alarm and everything is ok. Do I need to reprogram the remotes, which I don't think so?
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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: December 09, 2007 at 9:00 PM
Who put the battery in the vehicle? Ther is a chance that they did not reconnect the alarm constant wire.
Posted By: Vansolo
Date Posted: December 09, 2007 at 11:11 PM
I installed the battery myself today. What is the alarm constant wire? There are no other wires connected to the battery terminals except for the factory battery cable wires.
Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: December 09, 2007 at 11:51 PM
Most of the Clifford alarms say "go to the battery" for 12 volts......and most installers DO NOT. So your alarm does "nothing" correct? -------------
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: December 10, 2007 at 3:26 AM
Check all 4 fuses and the ground, rewire if possible to battery Solaris ( I had 2 over the years) never went wrong.
Posted By: Twelvoltz
Date Posted: December 10, 2007 at 6:46 AM
When we sold the old Clifford/Avital line (prior to the DEI acquisition) occasionally we would have similar problems. For some reason the brain of the systems would lock up from the 'spikes' caused by reconnecting the battery. Simply disconnecting the battery, turning the ignition key to the run position leaving it on while reconnecting the battery solved our issue most of the time.
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Posted By: Vansolo
Date Posted: December 10, 2007 at 8:45 AM
Thanks for all your inputs guys. I'll do that when I get home from work this afternoon. One thing thou Twelvoltz, on doing what you meantion above. Wouldn't that might fried some of my electronic circuitries in my car if I do that?
Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: December 10, 2007 at 2:57 PM
What he suggested should not bother anything at all. But if you do not feel comfortable doing that, you could try just disconnecting the alarm brain for a couple minutes and then try hooking it back up. This should reset the alarm.
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: December 10, 2007 at 6:00 PM
I thought the old trick of disconnecting a Clifford for a few seconds to reboot it only applied to G1, 2 and 3 Cliffords. G4's had more compliance in the circuitry and you could go to a heavy perm in car and a local ground (I'm a bloody hypocrite, I've still gone to the battery with my current G4!!)
Posted By: Vansolo
Date Posted: December 10, 2007 at 10:38 PM
Well guys, I tried disconnecting the battery, turning the ignition key to the run position leaving it on while reconnecting the battery method. With that, it was still no result. I will try disconnecting the plug from the alarm brain and see if that will work next. It's not fun living here in the frozen north. So it will have to wait until the it is a little warmer outside.
Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: December 11, 2007 at 12:10 AM
howie ll wrote:
I thought the old trick of disconnecting a Clifford for a few seconds to reboot it only applied to G1, 2 and 3 Cliffords. G4's had more compliance in the circuitry and you could go to a heavy perm in car and a local ground (I'm a bloody hypocrite, I've still gone to the battery with my current G4!!)
Hey Howie..... do you think these guys know what "go to a heavy perm in car and a local ground" means? See, I can hear you sayin it.... they cannot........ chears. -------------
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: December 11, 2007 at 3:32 AM
Well Gary at least I gave you some amusement in your time of trouble. That line did not mean "Get a Lionel Ritchie Afro perm and support only your local soccer club"
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