As you may remember, I decided to accept The Mazduece Challenge and continued removing the alarm system without ever looking at the installation instructions.
I pulled off the kick panel and removed the secret kill switch.
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Popping out some of the factory switches gave me a little better visibility and also revealed another tapped wire.
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Fortunately, the guys who installed this system were cheap and lazy. All of the wires in the system were long and loose. They didn't even spring for quick splice connectors. They just stripped away some insulation from the factory harness, twisted their wires around the bare spots, and then wrapped them up with lots of sloppy electrical tape. Everything was pretty easy to find. I just traced the wires back from the alarm boxes, the switch and the relay, to where they tapped into the car's main harness. A dozen or so wires soon became half a dozen, then four then three and finally I got down to the only wire that they cut in order to interrupt the starter.
Sloppy installation...
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The final three. The red and yellow alarm wires are tapped into the factory blue and white. The Black with Blue wire, which I assume goes to the starter relay, was the only one that they actually cut. They used crimp connectors and fed the immobilizer through that circuit.
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At this point, I chopped out the remains of the alarm system harness.
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They didn't leave me much wire to work with and I didn't trust their crimp connectors. I took a pair of pliers and gently pressed them down 90 degrees from the original crimp. Then I was able to pull them off without having to shorten the wire any more.
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Then I twisted the ends together and wrapped them up with lots and lots of electrical tape.
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Just kidding.![](/media/img/icons/smilies/wink-18.png)
I got out my soldering iron and some rosin core solder and made the reconnection permanent.
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Admittedly, it was not my best work. I was working upside down on my back. Don't judge me.![](/media/img/icons/smilies/unhappy-18.png)
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So at this point, the car's wiring harness has been restored back to (almost) the way that it was when it left the factory.
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All buttoned up.
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Poking around under the dash, I found two factory connectors that weren't hooked up to anything. I think that the one at the bottom left of this photo would go to a rear defroster switch if my car had one (it doesn't)...
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...and the one that's taped up to the big harness near the driveshaft hump by the firewall. My guess is that this may be some kind of OBD I diagnostic connector.
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There's one other non-mystery plug hanging loose under there. You can see it near the bottom left of this photo. That's the annoying buzzer that used to sound when the door was opened with the key in the ignition. I pulled that one out before I even drove the car home and it's going to stay disconnected.
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So after about three hours of work spread out over two days, I have a small pile of alarm crap on the garage floor and I don't have to worry about the immobilizer leaving me stranded or the rest of the system killing my battery.
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I salvaged a couple of fuse connectors and fuses, as well as a relay and its matching connector. I'm sure I can use that somewhere.
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And I have a pair of alarm remote fobs that I'll probably put on eBay for a while before tossing them in the trash. Who knows, maybe someone who loves their Viper 300 alarm needs a couple of spares.