So my front combo lights haven't worked right since I bought my car, and with the recent spell of nice weather we're having up here in NE, I thought I'd start tracing wires to figure out why.

In doing so, I noticed one of those little black plastic tubes that wires run through that I hadn't noticed before. So I took a look at where it was coming from. It appeared to be from my aftermarket alarm that I had installed last summer. Oh, cool, I thought. Well at least I can know where to start tracing from if I ever have an alarm issue.

Then I looked at where it was going, and it seemed to be going under the black plastic shielding that sits atop the intercooler duct. Upon further inspection, it seemed like the tubing went right into the duct. So I removed the IC duct, and sure enough, the moron who installed my alarm put the siren in the IC duct. WTF? Who in their right mind would do that? The stock IC doesn't get much airflow as it is, and mine has been half blocked by an alarm siren for 6 months.

Needless to say, I'm pissed off. I'm afraid to look at what else this guy did now. Why are people so dumb?

 

I have to admit I chuckled when I red this but, ya have to give the guy credit.....he did put it somewhere that NO-ONE would ever suspect to look for it...joke
mine got put next to my drivers side strut tower (badly) then it fell off and shook around till it broke. These guys are really clueless.

 

sorry but that is funny :P you should go yell at the guy, and bring a recorder... i wanna know what he says in his defence

 

At least your guy mounted somewhere out of the way. I ended up relocating mine to the AST mounting hole (right behind the stock IC) since I have no AST anymore.

 

oh yeah it's outa the way now, all the way in the trash can outa the way..hahaha

 

Sounds like something the dudes at quinn or many of the other stupid shops would do. A local shop ran a 2 gauge power wire in between the passanger hood bracket which eventually chewed through the insulation. There is only like 50 holes in the firewall, to this day I still dont understand why they didnt use one.

 

bahahahah....and thats why i now do all the work on my car myself...no one touches her

 

Maybe he was planning on using the duct as a nice air horn for siren amplification?

 

well my friend. Its better to be pissed off then pissed on. Some people are really retarded.
Adam

 

He was trying to be clever. Theives will pop the hood and cut the siren within seconds and people will assume it's a false alarm. I don't think he knows the importance of an intercooler or what one looks like.

 

Im amazed it didnt melt or something. From the heat of the compressed air.

 

give the guy some cool points it is original and he put everything back together without messing anything else. never heard that one!

 

it was in the air duct that directs the air into the intercooler, not in the intercooler itself

 

Are you going to go yell at him? I really want to hear what this rocket scientist says.

 

Any good theif can steal a car regardless of what kind of alarm it has on it, so I'm sure where the siren is has nothing to do with it. I'm sure it was just laziness.

Original? Yes. But not everything original is good. Ever seen that video of the guys who put bicycle style brakes on a unicycle?

 

Probably... I might wait till I cool off some though.

 

>Any good theif can steal a car regardless of what kind of alarm it has on it, so I'm sure where the siren is has nothing to do with it. I'm sure it was just laziness.<

I wouldn't call someone who figures out how to fit an alarm horn inside the ducting...AND do a good enough job that YOU didn't notice it for 6 months lazy!. Haha!!

I agree it is a dumb place for it but give the guy a break. There is no friggin room in the engine bay already and he was probably just trying to do a "clean" install for you.
I got a kick out of hearing the results of your wire search.

 

No, that would have actually stopped some low end theives gauranteed. They rely on cutting the siren wires so there is no noise. That is the fisrt thing they do. Once that is done, no one pays attention to them inside the car because they do not know who the owner is.

It was creative and the complete opposite of lazy. Unfortunately it was not a good choice because of sacrifice of cooling even though the opening is only 1x6" slot on any SMIC.

He could have put it where the 2nd oil cooler goes but then the wires are visible. He hid the wires. Yes, a high end pro theif can take any car with hi tech euipment but most likey it would be a meth head or gang banger for the cars price range.

 

Well thats what I meant when I said any good theif can steal the car whatever it has on it. The joy rider theif would be dettered by an alarm, so it serves its purpose there.

Regardless, you don't put the damn siren in the friggen IC duct. Hide it? Yes, I'm all for that. But not there.

 

Hahahaa

 

 

 

There have been 2 cars in the family with aftermarket alarms/keyless installed by a shop. I've had to completely rewire both and have done all the installs since. Some installers really know what they're doing, many don't. Kinda like taking your car to a dealership.

I definitely would double check the work -- at least so you'd be familiar with everything should (when) anything go wrong. Check fuses, splice points, holes drilled, routing hazards, location of relays, etc.

Hope the rest is ok.

 

I'd hate to know where his favorite place to hide the extra pair of keys is??.....