I didn't bother soldering the connector this time. I just crimped really good and they don't come out. Now I just have to finish the job and splice into the other wires (cigarette, rear defrost) which will be a few minutes. Finally, a happy ending to an annoying problem (admittedly my own fault).

BTW, I found out what the second wire from the top does. After I unplugged the wiring harness, I didn't realize that I had turned it upside down this time and cut #2 instead of #4. I pushed down on the door pin, they all locked. I pulled up, they all unlocked. I used my key, they all locked, alarm armed. I tried to unlock, nope. Nothing. Alarm didn't disengage, the other doors wouldn't open. Good thing I left the window open and had to reconnect the little sucker while hanging upside down into the car. I'm lucky I keft some spare wire. Half an hour later, I undid the damage. But hey, I started work at 4am and am a little tired. Live and learn; take your time doing things.

Modified by MerryBerry at 9:54 PM 1-20-2006

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i love this thread, so many people with little knowledge and lots of advice

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I see cars on here all day that SUCK.

Great, now he tells us

Quote, originally posted by Vayastyle »

i love this thread, so many people with little knowledge and lots of advice

Quote, originally posted by nater »

I see cars on here all day that SUCK.

Cheers to central locking.

Jeers to misaligned striker plates.

Because Dan's stuff is valuable and shouldnt be in the archives.

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I installed two push button momentary contact switches in my console to control the locks. One for unlock and one for lock, each touching the lock control wire to a +12v or a ground wire which I spliced from the cigarette lighter. Push a red button to lock and a black button to unlock. Looks slick and works like a charm.

A problem with my car is that the rear driver's side passenger door has a loose vacuum tube that comes unplugged every couple weeks. Today that happened again and as a result the vacuum pump ran continuously for about 30 seconds trying unsuccessfully to lock the doors. I tried pushing the two buttons separately to see if either one would trigger the pump to turn off but to no avail. After this happened, I fixed the tube, but when I got back into my car I found that my unlock button no longer worked.

Well, it turns out the unlock button is the one that uses the +12v source from the cigarette lighter. Which shares the same fuse as the radio and dome light. And the radio and dome light myseriously stopped working, too. So I replaced the fuse and the buttons worked again. I soldered a 100 ohm resistor (didn't have any 220's) into the green wire to hopefully stave off another instance of a blown fuse.

I am going to try and experiment with diodes sometime during the next couple of weeks and see if i can get both the old lock and the new buttons to work. When I unlock the car with my key, the rest of the doors no longer unlock because of the disconnected wire. I can still arm and disarm the alarm, strangely enough, but once I unlock it with my key, I have to press the new unlock button to get the other three locks to unlock. Hopefully I can get it back to full functionality and still keep my fancy new buttons.