DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just found more alarm **** hooked to the ignition and i dissconnected the **** and hooked it up just like it came from mazda and IT ******* WORKS IT ******* WORK'S OMFG IM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY

 

Sweetness! Glad you got it figured out. Alarms and other poor aftermarket wiring jobs always seem to cause all kinds of problems. Usually best to rip that crap out and do it the right way.

 

I love watching that happen almost as much as I love it when it happens to me: Congrats!

 

Congratulations, I had a feeling that it was from the alarm system. I have to agree with GSL-Addict, the most common electrical issues I find on cars tends to be from people who wire in alarms or stereos or what ever else they purchase incorrectly.

 

yea the sad thing is i had professional's install the alarm and it still fucked up

 

ok here is what i have done.

1st i replaced all fuseable link's, New battery , tore out old alarm witch was ******* my car up ( would not start unless headlight's wer on, Untell alarm was removed )

now i have a new battery reading 8 volt's.

then i turn on headlight's and it reads 10 volt's

i had a kinda weird problem before this i will go dig it up and post it under this post.

 

ok 1st thing's 1st i went to start my car ,when i turned key on, the light's on the dash came on like normal.

2nd i start to turn the car over to start it and all the light's shut off on the dash but it still was turning over.

3rd i happend to turn the headlight's on to see if they had power and they did,as i turned headlights on the light's on the dash came on,but i only had 8 volt's reading on my volt metter when i have allmost 13 most the time.

4th so car started with headlight's on, but i shut headlight's off and car dies

5th this might be a prob before all this started happening i would go to shut car off and it would not shut off, so i think it might be the ingnittion mabie

sorry about my spelling i suck plz help if u can



this a my post before,witch i fixed problem by tearing out old alarm from ignition.

Also i know these car's dont have day time running's light's do they???????

If not i know when this alarm was installed they wired in daytime running light's,So when i turn key on my parking light's come on mabie thats the problem???......... plz help thx guys

 

they do not have daytime runners. did you remove EVERYTHING from the alarm system? still sounds like a short leeching power, or need more grounds.(you can never have enough grounds!)

 

yea i got to the wireing harness for the alarm system and tore it out.

but the guy wired up daytime running lights and i dont know where to look for the wiering at.

 

One other thing to mention in regards to the alarm system...

Make sure that when you removed your alarm components that you did not interrupt or leave modified circuits alone. For example, Alarm systems tend to cut off ignition, fuel, starter, ect so just removing it could leaving you with a no start condition because the circuit for those systems was not repaired after removal, perhaps a similar issue is occuring.

Second, if you have DRLs installed by this guy I would first check all the wiring in regards to the lights, start with the blinkers and headlights, cross reference the wiring against the FSM and inspect what looks out of place.

 

thx buddy, also when i tore out hurness for alarm it was only connected to two of my igntion wire's and they where colored so they where easy to reconnect

 

No problem, my mind is very fresh on wiring issues as I am still in the process of redoing my new engine harness to my chassis harness for my car. Hopefully I will have it done soon! I miss my baby!

But yeah, always glad to help out a fellow enthusiast!

 

yea ive looked at ground's for a week or two and ive looked for where the daytime running light's might be hooked up but i havent seen anything abnormal.

dose any1 know where i might look for where the dip **** alarm guy installed daytime running light's, ive looked under the steering coloum for hour's.

 

Didn't the Canadian-spec cars have DRLs?

 

I was under the notion that Canada adopted the DRL after 1990?

 

so u guys got any idea's?

 

The red/green wire from the combination (light) switch supplies power to the parking lights when the switch is turned on. Seems like some wire with switched 12v might be connected to that red/green wire somewhere. That wouldn't explain the headlight/ignition/battery problem.

There are two round black rubber-covered main relays. They are under the hood near the firewall on the driver's (left) side. Maybe the alarm was wired into the main relay that controls power to the coils. I believe that is the one nearest the left side of the car. You can see where my MSD switched power is connected to that relay in the picture.

 

thx buddy ill check that 2maro and report back my finding's

 

ok well i checked relay's and its all hooked up right and the wire's have not been tampered with. Im starting to think it might be my battery guage inside the car because now it dosent even regester and i have 12 volt's everywhere else....

allthou i can start my car turn on headlight's and turn the key off with headlight's on and it stay's running,then i turn headlight's off and car will shut off........

 

hey chris i was just thinking, when you were changing out the fuseable links to the second gen fuse block. i noticed that you have one alum...battery cable? see if thats your ground, if so i bet that cable is no good. alum. is very soft and breaks over time. if so i would change it to copper.

copper is a way better conductor.
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just a thought...

 

yea the ground is copper and the power is alum.

 

Well that's interesting... Not sure why your headlights are acting like an ignition switch... but interesting none of the less.

 

swap out the power with a copper one ASAP.

 

but the weird think is i have 12 volt's to other thing's such as headlight's and other's