Well I just finished installing a Galaxy 5100 remote starter for manual transmissions with security alarm from www.autoalarmpro.com The system is working great, and should be sweet when winter finaly hits! (it's already freezing up the windows over night.) The quality seems tight, and the install was for the most part pretty straight forward. Anyone interested can ask me more specific questions if they like, and anyone actualy deciding to order should ask specificaly for Derek Weber, he's the Tech that walked me through a couple things, so now he's realy up to speed with the rav-4. I also needed a bypass kit for my OEM keyless entry, it was about 30$ extra, also from autoalarmpro.com.
"grey" areas on the install:
finding the proper tach wire ,each injector has 4, you need to find the one wire that is a different color on each injector, 3 of them always stay the same. It's the third one from the windshield. You can also look behind the glove box and try to probe for it but I never found it there at all.
finding the "door ajar trigger" wire, don't follow the instructions, unscrew the nipple in the door frame that gets pushed in when the door closes. Find the matching colored wire that runs under the driver's seat. There is a wiring harness that runs along the floor from the driver's side kick panel, and another one that runs towards it from the rear of the car. These two wiring harnesses meet at the middle of the driver's seat, form a "Y", and then some of them go under the seat.... this is where you need to find the color match for the wire, GOING UNDER THE SEAT.
Setting up the coil of the "keyless entry by-pass kit". Again, don't follow the instructions and stick the coil directly to the metal cylinder (there is a clear and black plastic cover that you need to slide off of the cylinder). Stick the coil to the underside of the plastic cover, on the black plastic ring that is the sensor for the key's signal, then run the wire down the cylinder while sliding the plastic cover back on. Make sure there is a constant 12V current going to the by-pass box (I tapped into the System's constant fused current). If you don't already have keyless entry you don't need this by-pass kit. If you do need it, there is a plug with a red wire, a black wire and a yellow wire.... you can gas the yellow wire, you don't need it and it's not plugged into anything.
That's about it, everything else was pretty straight forward. Can't wait to step into a nice, warm, de-iced car every morning this winter! Peace!
"grey" areas on the install:
finding the proper tach wire ,each injector has 4, you need to find the one wire that is a different color on each injector, 3 of them always stay the same. It's the third one from the windshield. You can also look behind the glove box and try to probe for it but I never found it there at all.
finding the "door ajar trigger" wire, don't follow the instructions, unscrew the nipple in the door frame that gets pushed in when the door closes. Find the matching colored wire that runs under the driver's seat. There is a wiring harness that runs along the floor from the driver's side kick panel, and another one that runs towards it from the rear of the car. These two wiring harnesses meet at the middle of the driver's seat, form a "Y", and then some of them go under the seat.... this is where you need to find the color match for the wire, GOING UNDER THE SEAT.
Setting up the coil of the "keyless entry by-pass kit". Again, don't follow the instructions and stick the coil directly to the metal cylinder (there is a clear and black plastic cover that you need to slide off of the cylinder). Stick the coil to the underside of the plastic cover, on the black plastic ring that is the sensor for the key's signal, then run the wire down the cylinder while sliding the plastic cover back on. Make sure there is a constant 12V current going to the by-pass box (I tapped into the System's constant fused current). If you don't already have keyless entry you don't need this by-pass kit. If you do need it, there is a plug with a red wire, a black wire and a yellow wire.... you can gas the yellow wire, you don't need it and it's not plugged into anything.
That's about it, everything else was pretty straight forward. Can't wait to step into a nice, warm, de-iced car every morning this winter! Peace!