darkhawkrx7

what is the security light for? im pretty sure there is no security system in the car maby im wrong. 88 gtu rx7
thanks

SLOWT2

for the secutiry system, if you have the light you have a secutiry system, it just tells you when it is armed and like when you open your door the ligt blinks

--joe

1_dollar_83_RX7

??? is that in english????

SLOWT2

soory i cant type on a laptop

-joe

RotaryForce13B

it's for the security system. I have a 90 GTU with factory security system and sun roof. Strange huh?

Dvst8

iTrader: (6)

yeah ive got it in my 86 gxl... pretty neat

Scott 89t2

it should come on when you lock the door... and then to arm it hold the handle up when you close the door.

darkwaveboi

my alarm goes off if the windows are down and the doors are locked...

weird...

koukifc3s

iTrader: (3)

hmm so that's why mine didn't work when I tried to activate it to show my friend!

Icemark

window position has no effect on the factory alarm, except for when you reach in the open window and try and unlock the door with the latch, rather than the key in the door.

darkwaveboi

thats why im so confused, i think its messing with a sensor or something. My power door locks are kinda half-assed dying...i have to push down and pull up the drivers side like 8 times to get the passengers to lock/unlock.


edit: example:

cool summer night, pull into driveway for 20 minute stop w/ windows down. Get out of car and because of habit, lock doors, hold handles up, go in house....

10 minutes later i hear my alarm go off for no reason...i should tape it one time, its fairly amusing

Icemark

Maybe someone added a feild sensor to the stock alarm and it is adjusted wrong???

Does the alarm go off if you arm it and wave your arm around inside??? it shouldn't unless there is some sort of extra sensor added on.

christi

My will go off sometimes. Depending if it wants to be nice to me or not. It'll arm sometimes too... She has mood swings... It seems

If I have my windows down and lock my door, but I forget if the alarm beep at me or not that it is armed, and I unlock the door w/o the key, it'll go off. Another incident is when my mom was in the car, I hopped out, locked the doors before she had even gotten out.... closed mine.. she unlocked the door, opened it up and it went off.

I think that's just strange. Sometimes the car will let the alarm work, other times it's just .. not even a alarm system ...

Rpeck

I have no alarm on my N/A ... but I have just started driving my 10 AE around now I got it up and running... it has the factory alarm, it has gone off on its own free will at least 3 times .. and I have only had a battery in it less than 3 weeks... I figured it was a common glitch I have it on my list to search for a fix. (other issues first) .. so I guess this is not a common issue? mine seems to have a mind of its own, infact it went off one nite while I was fukin sleeping and it was in a locked garage (Didn't really relize I had armed the alarm, its habbit to lock from the inside and hold the handle, thats how I lock my N/A) Needless to say I was pissed! I wanted to shoot a neighbor for having there car alarm go off in the middle of the nite .. come to find out its my AE in the locked garage ... I figured it was hungy or somthing .. so I sat in it and had a smoke with her. She didn't act up the rest of the nite.

darkwaveboi

i'll have to try the arm waive tomorrow. the annoying part isnt the alarm going off..its that retartedly female honking sound? A 2 seater sports car w/ the wimpiest horn ive ever heard

Rpeck

I just had a thought ... is the "glass breakage detector" standard .. cause that is a add on in the options list of my AE factory sticker... I wonder if thats whats going off? I assume it is some kind of a sound detector? where would that be located... and is it adjustable?

koukifc3s

iTrader: (3)

it was only offered on 10th AE.

Icemark

Its actually a ultra-sonic sensor setup on the 10thAE. It can easily false if the windows are down and the interior air in the car moves with any tempature change.

The sensors work on one sensor sending out a signal and the other reading the reflection of the signal. If the air density changes, the signal will take longer or shorter to bounce and return to the second sensor. That change in time (10ths of milliseconds) is what triggers the alarm. The idea is that breaking a window changes that air density in the vehicle, so it makes it a lot less prone to large trucks or airplanes false triggering the security system.

Luckly that system was only on the 10thAE. It was really the forerunner to the current feild disturbance or what is commonly called radar sensors. It can be compaired to the current interior sensors, the same way as compairing a pencil to a ball point pen.

MazdaRx7Racer4Life

i have an 86 gxl, and it came with the sport/normal suspension thingy but no security light, but i replaced the center conole with one from an s4 tii, and it had the security ligfht, so i incorporated it, and the plug was there, but i never see it turn on, weird huh?

Icemark

You would have to plug in the factory alarm brain to get it to work. The light is simple just a light. Doesn't do anything without a controller.

Rpeck

So I have better odds of it not going off if the windows are up right? Cause that nite in the garge I had the windows down .. and the last time it went off out front of my house the windows were also down. I will try it out with the windows up .. see if that helps the false alarms out.

Icemark

yeah they tend to false more if the windows are down of the sunroof is open.

MazdaRx7Racer4Life

too much work to tap into the brain just for a little light to blink, ill just have it there to look good.

Fitness Stain

i have an 88 TII, and when i unlock the door the light blinks but nothing else happens...same with the hatch, i dont think it works cause i have unlocked the drivers side with the windows down and nothing happend...i cant use a key in the drivers side, because i dont have a key cylinder....so what im getting at is if anyone has one they would like to sell........THEN PLEASE LET ME KNOW...i hate unlocking the passenger side, and then crawling over to unlock the driver side.

Icemark

if the system is working correctly, the light should flash whenever you open the hood, trunk/hatch, or either door.

As covered many times...

To arm a 88, make sure the hood and trunk are closed. Lock both the passengers and drivers door from the inside, and hold the exterior door handles while closing so they don't unlock.

The light should be on solid when this happens.

After about 10-15 seconds, the light should start flashing, then beep. It will flash once every 3 or 4 seconds at that point and is armed.

To disarm, use the key turning to the unlock position in either front door (or the trunk of 'verts) and the factory system will disarm.

If your car does not work that way, then you will need to fix one of the switchs that is broken.