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Rob - -
Does the red LED on the driver side speaker grill come on when you lock the car at the driver's door with the key, solid for I think it's 10 seconds, then flash?
I think if so it's a pretty good indicator that your alarm system is working properly. (LED itself of course could be bad; they sometimes get broken when people remove the speaker grill without pushing the LED out of it.)
The alarm brain, by the way, is above passenger's right knee, on a bracket riveted onto the inside of the knee bolster, below the heat/AC vents, I think maybe reachable from below when relay panel is dropped down. But I don't think they go bad often.
The fobs you have once worked on the car you're trying them on, I presume, and they couldn't have gotten mixed up with others? I'd think they and the cars would hold their settings for about ever but there's a chance the car needs to be reprogrammed to receive them. Of course that's a fee and needs the car working to get it to a shop with the tool.
From what little I know about the system the key in driver's door is equivalent to the fob for arming the system, or disarming it.
There's a lot of discussion about 9000 alarms on the townsendimports web site but most of it is about the older systems. Yours is a '96, right? and thus not user-programmable, per Townsend.
If you want to pull the ignition switch to check out whether it's sending a 12 volt signal to crank the starter, you remove it from the lock cylinder by loosening the two 1.7mm allen screws, and I think you need to nip a wire tie maybe to free up the wires leading to it, and drop it down to pull the wires out enough to get at them. Then you can still turn the ignition switch, with a screwdriver instead of with the key, and check out its action if you tap into the correct wire. Slice back any wire loom if it's in the way.
posted by 71.173.68...
, Fri, 9 Dec 2011 15:57:14
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