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i hate rav 4's

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Hi,

How are you going? I'm good thanks. I am having difficulty with my alarm/immobilizer. It was on the car when i bought it and it is by far the worst alarm, probably on the market, disgustingly bad. The problem is as follows: i had the alarm activated and opened the door, the alarm starts going off, i go to push the deactivate button on the remote and it breaks off on the actual computer chip. I go to push the silent deactivation and the same thing happens, the button breaks off again. So i now can't turn off the alarm. I have managed to trace the wires to the alarm 'box' under the dash and found a reset button. I have tried holding it in, repeatedly pressing it with key in/out on acc position, doors closed open etc... all to no avail. If anyone could help / ideas that would be hugely appreciated.

Obviously the car won't start because of the immobilizer. It is a 32 GTR, and the alarm i have no idea. The box says 'SPY' so I'm assuming it's a spy 2 way led with remote start (not connected btw and the remote is a small mobile phone looking thing. A horrible cheap piece of f****ing s**tc**t, sorry for the outburst). I tried google-ing spy but can't really find anything and all i want to do is go for a drive but this stupid problem, from this stupid alarm is preventing it.

Cheers.

Dohmar Grand Master

Dohmar

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Hi Mate

I too have an R32 GTR and it came with a really shit alarm. Best I can recommend is to take it to a pro to safely remove the old/dead alarm and then secondly to fit a decent replacement. Bear in mind removing/fitting alarms isnt cheap cause its very time consuming due to the labor involved. You'll be looking at $600-800 to remove and fit an alarm and that doesn't include the alarm. Don't skimp on the alarm or the installation, this is the one thing that'll keep your car safe if setup properly - you don't want to buy an alarm and then not have it work due to a substandard install.

I can recommend Ministry of Bass (south/west of the city, not far from cbd) or GT Autosound (North/east), I've used both shops and they both have great prices and know their stuff.

-D

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i hate rav 4's

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Always good to see a fellow GTR owner. Thanks for the advice, GT Autosound sounds the go. Happy to fork out for a decent setup, considering how easy they are to get into, just after one that doesn't lock the doors automatically, small in the pocket, at least 2 point immobiliser for my insurance and doesn't beep when the doors aren't locked ,if the windows down etc...

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