Attached picture shows the awful way a Cat 1 alarm had been wired in, the wiring run was tightly run around the back of the brake pedal and the brake arm had cut through the insulation on a few cores.

 

The zed had faulty central locking which was directly related to this, I have seen another install where the feed to the alarm had been taken from the ABS and was interfering with the start up proceedure for the abs light (mot failure) and others where the imobiliser is located a few inches frrom where the cables are spliced in making it a quick simple trace job to bypass it!

 

Now I am no way calling all alarm installers but we do see some S??t installations from so called approved installers, the same old story I suppose a few idiots cutting corners and getting the whole industry a bad name, is a warning though, when ever any cabling work is done on your zed get the best guys you can to do it or it just may go up in smoke.

 

Jeff@Zedworld

Doh! forgot attachment...here it is.

 

Jeff TT

yeah, iv seen some pretty shite alarm/immob installs too. some are just thrown in!! :rolleyes:

 

glad im thatcham approved - fitted my CAT1 myself, with care!! :D

me too. Fitted my Clifford Avantgard myself.

Jef, that installation does not look good. I have seen much worse in my time but it is rough when you pay an alarm company to fit something and they just throw it in (I dont do it to my customers I hasten to add!), especiallysomething so critical as immobiliser circuits which can cause you car to just cut out at any moment if not done properly. I must admit though, fitting alarms to Zeds can be a bit too tricky for your average alarm fitter. Generally they only have so many hours to do a job (dictated by their bosses) and really they need longer to do it on a Zed. I have fitted a lot of Cat 1's in my time but it still took me a whole weeks worth of evenings to do my Clifford. Still it is as trick as you like (remote start, folding mirrors, auto headlights etc).

 

Hope you don't have any more Gremlins Jeff.

 

Paul

only 1 thing worse than that -

 

 

mobile phone installers!!!!!!!! arrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhh :rolleyes:

aaarrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I went out to a brand new ML Merc last week which the stereo had stopped working. The tel installtion guy had used scotch-locks on the power feed, they had cut the main perm feed which eventually broke after a few weeks, hence dead radio. Bodgers!!!

 

Paul