So I have officailly used up all of the quick fixes to my alarm/immobilizer problem and have been completely locked out of my truck for a couple weeks now.
The past couple of years I have been stuck with the doors locking and the car immobilizing itself and my key-fob is pretty much dead/unreliable. The constant locking and unlocking and alarming etc always drains my battery, and so that adds another reason I might get stranded!
Usually I can set the alarm off by opening the doors, and 8-12 hours later, the alarm seems to dis-engage and I can usually get it running. Recently it went from 8-12 hours to 2-3 days; and in my frenzy of being pissed, I took the inner door off and blasted the door parts with PB blaster ( probably a bad idea).
I thought it worked because the next morning it let me turn it on, and the doors didnt lock themselves for at least a week, when before it was a daily thing. Then all of a sudden, they locked themselves and now I have offically been locked out for a couple of weeks now.
I tried charging the battery, because I read somewhere that the BeCM gets upset when the battery is low, and the charge hasn't changed anything.
My friend owns a shop and just bought a $8000 computer(not sure what kind), and thinks he can use that to resync/dis-engage/re-mobilize the engine. And on top of that, I would love for him to totally disarm the alarm system forever. But he is an hour away, and I don't want to tow my truck all that way if it wont do any good. so is that possible? That would save me alot of problems since I really don't care to lock up my truck.
OR, I was reading this post - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32391&p=250437&hilit=alarm#p250437
and they mentioned "blackbox solutions syncmate" and wondered if that would work. If anyone knows if it does or where I can find one that can be shipped to the US, that would be great!
I just want/need to get it going, and if the syncmate works, I would love to spare my friend the trouble, and that would be great to jsut carry that around.
I really just need it to last 9 more months untill I graduate school and get a job, or at least getting running until the colder weather hits Indiana and the doors dont seem to lock themselves. Then I could sell the thing and dump the problem on someone with more patients/time to deal with getting a permenant fix!
-PS I should have listened and fixed the door latch
but I thought I would make it to the cold weather and Im about a month short
The past couple of years I have been stuck with the doors locking and the car immobilizing itself and my key-fob is pretty much dead/unreliable. The constant locking and unlocking and alarming etc always drains my battery, and so that adds another reason I might get stranded!
Usually I can set the alarm off by opening the doors, and 8-12 hours later, the alarm seems to dis-engage and I can usually get it running. Recently it went from 8-12 hours to 2-3 days; and in my frenzy of being pissed, I took the inner door off and blasted the door parts with PB blaster ( probably a bad idea).
I thought it worked because the next morning it let me turn it on, and the doors didnt lock themselves for at least a week, when before it was a daily thing. Then all of a sudden, they locked themselves and now I have offically been locked out for a couple of weeks now.
I tried charging the battery, because I read somewhere that the BeCM gets upset when the battery is low, and the charge hasn't changed anything.
My friend owns a shop and just bought a $8000 computer(not sure what kind), and thinks he can use that to resync/dis-engage/re-mobilize the engine. And on top of that, I would love for him to totally disarm the alarm system forever. But he is an hour away, and I don't want to tow my truck all that way if it wont do any good. so is that possible? That would save me alot of problems since I really don't care to lock up my truck.
OR, I was reading this post - viewtopic.php?f=3&t=32391&p=250437&hilit=alarm#p250437
and they mentioned "blackbox solutions syncmate" and wondered if that would work. If anyone knows if it does or where I can find one that can be shipped to the US, that would be great!
I just want/need to get it going, and if the syncmate works, I would love to spare my friend the trouble, and that would be great to jsut carry that around.
I really just need it to last 9 more months untill I graduate school and get a job, or at least getting running until the colder weather hits Indiana and the doors dont seem to lock themselves. Then I could sell the thing and dump the problem on someone with more patients/time to deal with getting a permenant fix!
-PS I should have listened and fixed the door latch
but I thought I would make it to the cold weather and Im about a month short
