The alarm I have is great but it didnt stop some very careful people from stealing my rims about a year back. I've had my new ones for a while but I didn't want to get hit again so I figured I would attach a proximity alarm to the Avital alarm I allready owned. Here are the tools that I needed to do this.
First you want to find out where the "brain" of your alarm is located. Mine was very easy to get to since it was just behind the climate control. You want to find the four wire plug that is red, black, green, and blue. This is the input from more than likely just your window sensors and tells the alarm when to go off. The proximity alarm comes with the same four wire plug but since there is only one jack you need to cut the wires and combine the two sensors into one jack.
You next need to run the wires to a place where you want to mount the sensor. I chose underneath my coin tray thingy. If you follow the white line that is where I ran the wire.
Here you can see where the wire is.
I then drilled a small hole through the plastic molding and put a nut and bolt through it to hold the sensor in place and so it would be in a easy to reach spot in case adjustments are needed later.
Then of course you clean up your wires.
Once you are sure that everything is connected correctly and that your wires are ran how you want you can adjust the sensativity of your alarm. Start with the outer layer first and work your way in. You dont want it so sensative that your alarm become a nuesance but enough so that if someone is too close like looking in through your window you can either have it do a warning chirp or set the alarm off. I chose to have mine go off but I will make adjustments if it is giving me false alarms.
You now put your shift boot and console back on if you have chosen to install it where I did. Keep in mind metal tends to interfere with these types of alarms so try not to mount it around too much metal as this might give you blind spots in the alarm.
Now clean everything up and set your alarm. Now if some shady guy is going up to my car to scope it out the alarm will allready scare him off before he tries to break a window.
First you want to find out where the "brain" of your alarm is located. Mine was very easy to get to since it was just behind the climate control. You want to find the four wire plug that is red, black, green, and blue. This is the input from more than likely just your window sensors and tells the alarm when to go off. The proximity alarm comes with the same four wire plug but since there is only one jack you need to cut the wires and combine the two sensors into one jack.
You next need to run the wires to a place where you want to mount the sensor. I chose underneath my coin tray thingy. If you follow the white line that is where I ran the wire.
Here you can see where the wire is.
I then drilled a small hole through the plastic molding and put a nut and bolt through it to hold the sensor in place and so it would be in a easy to reach spot in case adjustments are needed later.
Then of course you clean up your wires.
Once you are sure that everything is connected correctly and that your wires are ran how you want you can adjust the sensativity of your alarm. Start with the outer layer first and work your way in. You dont want it so sensative that your alarm become a nuesance but enough so that if someone is too close like looking in through your window you can either have it do a warning chirp or set the alarm off. I chose to have mine go off but I will make adjustments if it is giving me false alarms.
You now put your shift boot and console back on if you have chosen to install it where I did. Keep in mind metal tends to interfere with these types of alarms so try not to mount it around too much metal as this might give you blind spots in the alarm.
Now clean everything up and set your alarm. Now if some shady guy is going up to my car to scope it out the alarm will allready scare him off before he tries to break a window.
