sonyman

hey does anyone have a picture of what the stock alarm looks like in a 1988 GTU? i dont know if it is below the glove box.

Icemark

nickle colored box, with a single harness running from it

Icemark

sonyman

thank that really helped.

Apathy

Yea, I need to remove mines.. it messes up to much

Icemark

Alarms don't mess up... most of the time on the FC it is due to user error or a bad or mis-aligned latch switch on the door.

VietFC

i saw that picture on ebay... ^_^
it's listed under liek.. randon box or something. hahah

Icemark

yep, that is where I stole the picture from

sonyman

does anyone know how to fix the alarm problem? cause mine goes off when ever and i cant deactivate it or activate it, but i want to get it to work.

RotaryEvolution

iTrader: (30)

can the door switch contacts be cleaned?

i took my stock alarm box out and stomped on it, but i guess i'm gonna have to fix the real problem when i wire up the new paging alarm system...

sonyman

what do you mean by cleaned? and is there a way to turn it on and off

Icemark

Well to disarm, you want to make sure that you are turning the key in the door to unlock.

The system will not disarm (once it is armed) by the ignition switch.

If it is tiggering by itself 80% of the time it is the latch switch on the drivers or passengers door. The latch switch is the little lever that you push up or down to lock or unlock the car from inside the car. Most of the time when the alarm false triggers it is because the contacts in the latch switch are dirty/gummed up, or the latch switch itself is mis-aligned to the door panel and trim cup.

The other 20% of the time it is due to a loose hood, or mis-aligned hatch/trunk switches.

The stock alarm is amazingly well built for an OEM system, and internally in the S4 alarm brain, it is unheard of to have a failure with the logic circuits.

sonyman

ok thanks

rcefstsfecr

Icemark what about an s5 alarm. I'm trying to figure why mine would go off 5 mins after getting home as well as at 2am. This is the first meaningful thread I found when I searched.

Driftczar

yeah i found an fc 87, it had a stock alarm, and it worked pretty well, for somethign so old the alarm and everythign the guy showed me worked real well, good condition fc indeed...