Added power locks and windows - 2012

Thanks for the help hope it goes smooth tommrow ill post some pics as I go

 

really what to do this now, however I've never done wiring yet. That would be the big challenge for me.

 

Wait so even if I DO NOT HAVE power locks and I buy one of those Viper alarm system, the Viper alarm come with power locks for my truck? Or do I still have to power locks separately??

 

You need to buy the actuators and related parts separately.

The alarm system only triggers the factory locks.

 

BTW: I looked up the parts to upgrade to a factory locking system.

I stopped as soon as I saw the price for the actuators. Over $250 per door for the integrated latch/actuator.

 

Well i finished took a while about 5 hours but i was taking my time and trying to make as clean of an install as possible, heres how i did mine.

Mounted bracket, stripped, plastic cover, wire, and more plastic to get to cable underneath.



Mounted bracket, actuator and bent rod linkage so its aligned with the cable bracket system.


same thing to other side



snake wires threw hole behind kick panel



Pulled both ends of the boot out to i can snake the wire threw easier, and disconnected speaker wire


Put wire threw door


Snake it up to actuator


Soldered both power wires from door lock harness and keyless entry harness together to 1 connector


Soldered the black blue wire from the keyless entry system to the brown wire on the actuator harness, this Unlocks The door. Then same thing with green/black to purple wire for locking.


Taped each wire up i soldered, then the whole bundle.


All grounds went here, to the bolt that holds the kick plate bracket in place.


I then put the keyless entry system here, all extra wires are tucked into a pocket behind where i put the keyless entry box.


Plugged the power wires i solderd into 1 connector into the "20a Dr Lck" socket



I then put everything back on, kickplate, running board cover, door panels, ect. works great. Only had 1 issue threw whole process. On the top right of the door panel is a triangle cover that covers the mirror bolts, it has 3 little white plastic clips, one you pop that cover out take the clips out by squeezing them. If you try to push the cover back on with them in the holes they will fall threw! so make sure you take them out and put them on the cover and not leave them in the holes when you reinstall them, i lost 2 clips had to use Velcro to keep them from falling out. Threw the whole process i made sure windows cleared the actuators and wires and made sure the actuators had a little play in them so they dont bind up. On the drivers side you may notice electrical tape on the cable. i put that there cause i didnt want the cable to hit the bracket and make noise. This is because i put the cable coming out of the top on the hole on the actuator and it was close to the bracket. on the passenger side i put it coming out of the bottom and it had more clearance, but i had already bent the driverside cable so i wasn't going to redo it.

Ps my fingertips are killing me now lol there sore as hell for some reason.

 

Which way is more reliable? the cable method or the way Anthony says to?

 

Done properly, Anthony's method.

But it's way easy to screw that up and not get a secure connection or to get binding/interference.

 

Anyone know where i can get another rod for the actuator? I had mounted one of the actuators wrong so i need another rod to make it work without binding

 

I would contact A1 electronics and see if they will hook you up with another rod.

One thing that is probably common sense but I failed to do. The remote receiver msut have two grounds hooked up in order to work. (Aviatal 2101l) I only hooked up the black ground wire and my doors locks would not work. Hooked up the violet wire to ground and they worked. Why two grounds I do not know??
Anyone hook up the parking lights so they flash? If so, what colour wire and where at?
Thanks.

 

Power supply ground for the electronics, and a relay common.

The relay common may be either ground or positive depending on the design of the system being switched.

 

Here's where they say it is, but when i was installing my alarm i couldnt get a reading off of it so I didnt even try it



If you do try it and if it works, let me know please

 

Yup. Pin 10 on the 13 pin plug flashes the parking lights. It also flashes all the interior dash lights and such. Not sure if that is a good or bad thing. I am going to leave it connected like that unless someone tells me the truck will blow up.

 

What do you mean by all the dash lights? like the same thing that happens when you first turn the key on?

 

The dash lights flash at the same time as the parking lights. So if everything is off, hit the lock button, the dash/switch lights flash with the parking lights.

 

So just as if you momentarily turned on your parking lights from the stalk?

If so, that's fine. The alarm is just putting a ground on the same pin as the stalk.

 

Yes, exactly.

 

Did this too, and it's the back lighting to the needels that turns on, just like the stalk

 

What drop is that it’s perfect