Hey people

My brother and I recently installed remote central locking into his 2nd gen. As with, I assume most after market kits, it comes with a wire (I think yellow or orange) from the remote central locking control unit to connect to your indicators to make them flash when you unlock/lock the car.

The other weekend, we were trying to connect this wire up without luck. We only managed to have either the left or right hand indicators flash without the car's electrics going completely degenerate or blowing a fuse. Not being very familar with the wiring system in the 2nd gen and having no workshop manual handy, we gave up on that idea. :confused:

However, we instead connected the wire directly to the ciggy lighter 'backlight' wire. Now when you press unlock/lock, the tail lamps, headlights and dash lights flash once/twice respectively with no detrimental affects thus far. Credit goes to my brother as it was his idea.:thumbsup:

It might have been done before but it looks pretty cool so I thought I'd share anyway.:)

Thats a pretty cool idea. Something different. I wish I could do this to the stock remote for a TR Elite.

Hey people

My brother and I recently installed remote central locking into his 2nd gen. As with, I assume most after market kits, it comes with a wire (I think yellow or orange) from the remote central locking control unit to connect to your indicators to make them flash when you unlock/lock the car.

The other weekend, we were trying to connect this wire up without luck. We only managed to have either the left or right hand indicators flash without the car's electrics going completely degenerate or blowing a fuse. Not being very familar with the wiring system in the 2nd gen and having no workshop manual handy, we gave up on that idea. :confused:

However, we instead connected the wire directly to the ciggy lighter 'backlight' wire. Now when you press unlock/lock, the tail lamps, headlights and dash lights flash once/twice respectively with no detrimental affects thus far. Credit goes to my brother as it was his idea.:thumbsup:

It might have been done before but it looks pretty cool so I thought I'd share anyway.:)

You needed diodes.

Nice idea although i would keep an eye on your wiring...

Btw
The wiring for your indicators is wired through the hazzard light switch.
just thought you might like to know that :)

Vlad - thanks, I'll do some research into this. I think Ego had something like this done to his Verada tail lights for combined reverse/indicator function so I'll check it out.

Adza27 - Yep that's where I was trying to connect the wire to but couldn't manage to get both sides to work without consequential issues, such as all the indicators staying permanently on when I turned the ignition to 'on'. I think I pretty much tried every wire combination without success.:doh:

Nice idea although i would keep an eye on your wiring...

Btw
The wiring for your indicators is wired through the hazzard light switch.
just thought you might like to know that :)

:stoopid:

yeah thats wat i did, i wired an aftermarket system