alarms are not for the faint of heart. I did not do my first one until I had been istalling profesionally for almost a year. I have been doing them for over 10 yrs now and still find a car that can cause me to cuss....

 

Please STOP recommending BBY for ANYTHING audio or installation related.

 

WTF, i work at best buy and have done quality installs for 7 years! we are not allowed to do r.s. on stick cars at the shop but i have done tons of them in my garage, and yes do not leave you car in gear (mine went through a garage door after someone else drove it, left it in gear, and then sat on the keys and buttons somehow starting the car), what year stang do you have and i can email you the wiring diagram from viper that will tell you EVERYTHING you need to know

 

if you could send me 1 for a 2000 cuz i think im going to do it.

 

pm me your email and i'll send it to you, also what brand and model are you buying so i can give you some pointers

 

Welcome to the audio forum

Again, sorry you work for the **** yellow price tag. I can talk smack about them since I used to be there. There are a few good installers left in their bays but I think you know the generalquality of work that comes out of best buys bays. I have seen it first hand and fixed alot of it since leaving. As I said I started there and got my foot in the door with them but it was years after I left them that I learned how to install.

And if you really want to start email wiring diagrams off to any tom dick or harry on here that is TELLING you that they want to install it in a manual then that proves my point! YOU drove YOUR car through the garage through nobody elses fault but your own. If you had used the proper techniques and equipment you would NEVER have a problem with your car. Thankfully there were no kids in or around the garage when your friend screwed thingsup huh? I can also talk smack about this since I do have a remote start on my truck that is manual, WITH A NUETRAL SAFETY SWITCH!!! I put it in over a decade ago and it has not driven anywhere I did not want it to. I realize that after 7 yrs you are on the top of your game in the BBY bays but unfortunatly in the real world of install that puts you only one step down from Reme at unique whips[:-]

If you choose to send this stuff off to anyone please do it outside of the forum as I am sure it does not want that liability. I can only imagine:

"I put a remote start on my stang with the diagram a REAL best buy installer gave me off of the mustang forums. I don't know what went wrong to cause it to start on its own, roll across that road and crash into that school bus full of nuns and catch fire?!?!?! It was wired perfectly"

I am speaking on behalf of the forum and maybe out of line but sending alarm info to untrained and unprepaired random people is completely wrong.... I help some people and others I recommend going to a shop to get an alarm. You know as well as I do EXACTLY what can happen when untrained people put in security.

 

Yea, if you knew anything about the directechs wiring diagram it says right on it that "using the wire diagram below is just a guide with the most common colors of this year make and model, you must test with a multimeter to verify"
And for your information when my car went through a garage door like i said I was not the last driver, and I was not the one that sat on the remote, and I am not the one that turned off the neutral saftey switch (you know, the switch that needs ground for the r.s. to work, i turned it off so it wouldn't remote start but my friend found it under the dash and thought it was the ZEX switch so he turned it on hoping for spray) so get your damm facts straight! I am mecp 1st class certified so i'd school you any day. As far as being one step below reme you're way off, its two different worlds of installation. He does gay azz boxes for people with tooo much money and i install m/v, alarms, and r.s. mostly.
Why would you consider me giving basic wire info a bad thing. Its just a guide, if he knows what to do it will help, if he doesn't then it will intimidate him to bring it to a pro.
Stop hating, this forum is supposed to be all about helping people i thought.... so you're saying you would not share info that you had just to be a d^ck?
wow

 

I am happy to share my info with those that I think that can do the install. When the thread starts with someone that you know NOTHING about starts asking about remote start info for a manual and you are gonna just give the info? I will normally ask a few questions, see for example if they are familiar with relays and if I get a bunch of ????'s, they have no business doing any security.

Now on to be a dick some more I guess. In reality I am stating the facts and the trueth hurts but if it hurts that bad you will not want to be on here much.

Again if you had PROPERLY installed you remote start, it would never, ever go anywhere you didn't want it to. The first alarm I ever installed was in my 94 and with my senior tech to help answer questions(you know how difficult 5-wires can be for greenies and again we are talking ford right!), the day after we bought it new. I have been to many a tech seminar by DEI, and coda alarm and never remember them saying anything about installing a toggle for a safety switch. It was shortly before that I recieved my MECP certification and thought I was hot shtuff too! When I left BBY I realized how worthless mecp was and never went back for anything else. What could the mecp 1rst class test really teach me that a degree in electronics and 15 yrs professional experience could not? and now I would have to ask what could you teach me? Again, welcome to the forum. I think most of the people here will back me up to say that I am normally a perty level headed person that tends to shy away from shtuff like this but don't tell me that after 7 yrs in a bby bay that you can school me and then tell me not to be a dick. The only thing you have on top of me is that you have all the sku codes memorized. I forgot those a decade ago...........

It would be nice to have someone that is more familiar with the newer models as I still have not seen a newer mustang in my bay. It is either a sport-ute or an import, gotta love scottsdale.

 

don't worry about me guys i am going to install a safty kill switch for the remote start when the e brake is off.

 

ttocs, you didn't know that ALL dei alarms come with a saftey switch? it is the little ON/OFF switch with 2 black/white wires coming off of it, most people just ground the black/white off of the r.s. brain and don't use the switch (which works fine if you never need to deactivate you r.s.) but I DID WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. It comes with the switch for a reason, so you can turn the r.s. OFF, WHICH I DID BEFORE SOMEONE ELSE DROVE MY CAR, and like previously stated my dumbazz friend turned the switch ON thinking it was the ZEX, once again not my fault, and he is glad the garage door was closed because inside the garage was a mint $50,000 1969 GTO Judge.

And stangant, as far as the ebrake being on, its not gonna stop it if your ebrake isn't hella strong.

I'm not trying to be an "internet gangster" and argue all day, i just stick up for bb because I AM one of the decent installers in the company that don't hack anything, and i only use the 1st class statement because most people just get their basic to claim they are certified, i wanted to be smarter then the average bear and get a little pay raise. I'm sure the day i leave the company i'll hate too, but for now i gotta stick up