(OTHER) Keyless Entry followup...
 

Hi everyone,
On my project widebody car the door locks were shaved so I knew I needed to get some sort of keyless entry. After some research on this site (of course), others recommended buying a ebay kit from user audioadaptors. The kit I purchased consisted of autolock actuators, a central control box, 2 remotes, and all the stuff required to install it.

My inital impression of this unit is great. For the price of it im amazed that I didn't swap to a keyless entry before... All that was required for the actuator installation was a clip to attach to stock lock rod, and the metal rod that attaches from the actuator to the clip. Then tighten a couple of screws and your done.

Honestly the first side I did took a little while, I had to look at the kit and figure out what went where... But after further inspection I realized how easy it actually was. Then for the passenger side I just followed the same idea, and it took about 30 minutes max. I was able to use a stock hole in the door and mount the actuator unit there. Then I fed the wires properly through the doors.

I think this may be one of the smartest things you can buy for your RX-7. Materials requried consisted of, some basic electrical knowledge, solder, shrink wrap, extra lengths of wire, wire strippers.

The finished product seems to work very well. You can remove a jumper so that the unit pops the actuator twice up and twice down if you would like. Then another option is to have both doors lock once the ignition is turned to the on position. Then when you put it to the off position your doors are unlocked. Very cool setup...

Dan_s_young

very awesome Dan, im glad it work work out the way you wanted it too. i might have to look in too this also!

awesome. I bought the same kit, and will be installing it soon.

I am right in the middle of the EXACT same install (RRAL 500 from audioadaptors http://stores.ebay.com/AudioAdaptors-com ). I will post pictures of the lock actuators in a few hours.
I having two issues
1) I was thinking about not hooking up the alarms, just the doors. I have it this way now but the unit keeps clicking so I think it wants to be fully installed. I was going to try the valet override and see if that helps. Any ideas?
2) did you hook up the rear hatch to AUX port? I think you need to use a relay but I have yet figured that out. The unit puts out a negative charge for the rear hatch.

Thanks

Also where did you put the little black box?

hmmm well the unit I got is just the keyless entry system. The main unit that I recieved was bright yellow, I think im going to hide it behind some of the middle dash stuff. I tried to hook the hatch up to the aux port but it didn't work... But when I use a test light to the aux wire of the unit and press the aux button the test light comes on, therefore it is feeding it power. But I hooked it up so that it bypassed the switch in the dash, but for some reason it didn't work... A relay may be the answer though, if the hatch is not getting enough power to work, then you could wire a relay in so that when you press the aux button the relay closes a larger power wire going to the hatch release... I might have to give that a try.

I know one mistake I made when trying to hook this thing up is I was trying to use the actuators with the CF remote that the kit came from, apparently this remote is not yet programmed, so that is the reason I was having some of my problems.

I made the mistake of buying the alarm combo unit which requires external relays for the door actuators. Let me know if you figure out to wire a relay up the hatch. I don't quite get how to use the relays
here is picutre of my doors.

I've been thinking about installing one of these. Thanks for the review, I will be doing this in the near future! :icon_tup:

Hmmmm did you make sure to solder and shrinkwrap all your connections?

One thing I noticed today which im going to have to find away around is the door locks cycling to unlock and then relock when you turn the ignition to the start position.... Anyone have any ideas for this one???