mazclubber

howdy my fellow enthusiasts! It's Aussie Bob from South Australia! I'm adding an alarm and driver's door actuator kit to my Jap import, does anyone know what the factory power locks require to trigger? It's iether pos. neg. or both! Please help me someone! I have searched the world! thanks, Bob.

Madrx7racer

i did a quick search of this whole forum.. https://www.rx7club.com/search.php?searchid=570259 .....good luck reading through all that......and if you don't want to read wait for one of the GURUs to reply.....

and WELCOME TO THE CLUB post pics of your car too.

Icemark

factory lock on all RX-7s are follow me systems, not neg or pos systems.

mazclubber

thanks Icemark for taking the trouble to make a comment! What the hell is a follow me system, I only have three choices according to my Steelmate 888 alarm installation manual, when I connected to the pos./ neg. a fuse blows. By the way, our news services say you are getting pretty wet over there in calif. Thanks, Barb and Bob in OZ.

mazclubber

Thanks Madrx7racer for the greetings, I tried your link, but there was no matches?

Kenteth

Coicnidentaly, I just added powerlocks and keyless entry. Works great and installation was easier than i expected it to be. They are follow me type. The kit included to actuators, the main box, two keyless button keypad thigies,and a wiring harness. Funny though, didn't come with any instructions. It was prettty straight forward.

I took some picts of the actuator location if anyone is interseted.

mwpayne

I think a 'follow me' means if you lock/unlock the drivers door, the other one will automatically do the same...

www.kickyride.com is where I got keyless entry stuff for my FB, they have great customer service. A tech there even hand drew the wiring for me, he even knew the wire colors in my car.

Kenteth

that is honestly incredible...

staticguitar313

iTrader: (2)

yeah someone post more info on this topic because i want to do keyless entry/power locks, on my GXL, that the only thing that isn't power on it!!

Wanked_FC

iTrader: (1)

just buy any alarm that will control locks. Buy an actuator and a relay, wire the relay to the alarm brain, and hook up the actuator to the drivers door. Thats all I did, now i have keyless entry.

Icemark

Ah, a follow me system, uses a switch and single motor in the opposite door.

So adding keyless entry would require adding a door lock motor to the drivers door. The motor would then drive the unlock/lock of the drivers door as well as the switch in the drivers door that controls the passengers factory door lock motor.

therotaryrocket

does my 88 turbo II have the passenger side automatic lock? How do I get my passenger door to unlock when I unlock my driver's door?

jacobcartmill

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i have an 89 TII and my power locks recently stopped working. the more i read, the more i find this is a common problem... how to we fix it?

Icemark

ah... well if it came with that factory option.

Icemark

Fix the drivers door latch switch

zjbarra

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I figured I'd just keep going on this subject instead of making a whole new thread for something similar. I'm doing an alarm and am going to install power locks on my car to go with this. I think I have a pretty good idea of the relay setup that it will require but I was curious if there is any actuator (aside from the stock one) that is specific to mazdas or if I even need one. If need be I'll do a custom mounting job for the actuator but I just assume use one that requires minimum modification/mounting to install. Thanks in advance -Zach-

Kenteth

zjbarra

iTrader: (2)

Looks fairly straight forward on your pics, any suggestions on actuators? I can't imagine there is a huge difference between them, should I just grab a pair off of ebay?

Kenteth

Get the slim type, and DON'T buy off ebay. They are ~<$10.00 for the slim type at partsexpress.com. Parts-express is an awesome company and they don't rape on shipping and have a great customer service.

http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage....ectGroup_ID=29

part #s 330-580 and 330-582

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=330-580
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=330-582

They've got a $4.50 two wire actuator too, but you won't be able to use a followme system with those.

EDIT: I technicaly didn't use the slim actuators, but I had to "work" the actuators into the door panel more than what the pictures really show. When I first put the door panels back on, the panels failed to line up perfectly because they were bottoming out on the actuator. Ok.. actually I just pushed the actuator into that hole a bit more. Wasn't too hard, but it did have to be done. A slim actuator probably wouldn't need this "working"