Gazdaman
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Registered: 30th Aug 07
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Decided to rip out my outdated and knackered Moss alarm.
I don't like something having such a strangle hold over my car's electrics if I can't get a spare fob or any support for it etc.
So I followed the wires in the steering cowel, (cowel off) up under the speedo, (speedo out), back down by the pedals, then disappears round the back. Checked the bulkhead, hasn't come through. Then I spot some wires coming from behind the centre panel where the heater controls are. (So out that comes).
I found only 4 wires behind there. 2 big fat grey ones that cut and splice into one of the main ignition wires. So cut those off and re-fixed the cable.
Then there's a white and a black wire that come down to around the steering wheel area from the centre console. There's also a reset switch tucked underneath the cowel. One wire of the switch is spliced into the black one (ground I guess) and the other from the switch (green) disappears into the loom with the white and black wires and that disappears down by the pedals. I assume coming out through the bulkhead.
But I mean jesus christ. It's so involved it'd be easier to rip out if it was actually cast into the block!
Found a load more wires spliced into wires around the cowel. At a guess they're into the indicators and maybe power.
Spent about 2h trying to remove it so far. Granted a lot of that was removing fascias but it's definitely far from done!
Gaz
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Adam-D
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im good at this 
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Adam-D
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my fez
[Edited on 28-12-2008 by Adam-D]
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Gazdaman
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Looks very similar to mine at the moment! I think I've done as much as I can from the cockpit end. I'll have to start at the siren under the bonnet next and pull the wires back from there.
Once it's back to standard I can set about installing my new eBay jobby.
I enjoy it though. Just wish stuff was more accessible. I've ripped alarms off of bikes before, and it's far easier just because you can see where the wires go. They don't just disappear into a hole never to be seen/found again.
Gaz
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Gazdaman
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Gareth 1 - Alarm 0
Sadly interior was also nil.
It starts and runs though. I accidently hotwired it while putting it back together too.
Probably took 3h all in.
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_Allan_
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That's some skills gaz  
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flybikeslee
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did my civic one as the alarm fob died and there was no serial to reprogramme new ones, only took an hour to remove, dogshit imo, the longer it takes to remove the better surely, as a thief wouldn't bother trying to bi-pass it etc
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Gazdaman
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Well yes and no. This alarm was so deeply embedded in the car. But there's a fuse in the live wire just under the bonnet. There's no battery backup, so take out the fuse and you kill it stone dead.
The bit i don't understand is why some of the wires went behind the heater console and up in the driver's footwell. And some went up the passenger footwell and through the centre console...
And thanks Allan. Love R6s. My first ride on track was on an R6.
Now I can set about installing my new alarm.
Gaz
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Bonney
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Think what most alarm places do whn they remove them is just cut the wires to the main boxes, and to the siren
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Gazdaman
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New alarm's in, and I even remembered how all the interior went together!
(Aren't B non-airbag steering wheels horrible!)
Even found someone had already taken a feed from the door switch and had coiled the wire up inside the fuse box. Saved me a job I suppose.
Anyone want a knackered Moss alarm?
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Gazdaman
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quote:
Originally posted by Bonney66
Think what most alarm places do whn they remove them is just cut the wires to the main boxes, and to the siren
Well with this Moss one, it was spliced into the ignition wires. So if I did that it would have imobilised the car until I sorted the wire. So that's why I did the slow but steady way. If I knew the car better, and how the alarm went in, then I'd probably do it like that.
I was just worried I'd rip it out, then find out the car wouldn't start!
Gaz
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