Car Alarms: 1993 Nissan Maxima car alarm, nissan maxima, dash area

Question
I have a 1993 Nissan Maxima that just wouldn't start one day. Attempts to jumpstart it worked but the battery would drain overnight. We took the battery to get checked and it checked out to be a good battery. Then a friend believed it to be a bad alternator, so the car sat for about 9 months until the other day when I could finally afford to have one put in. I took it to a mechanic to replace the alternator and the alternator checked out to be good. He was able to jump start it but the car would only stay running for like 10 seconds. He said that the car alarm keeps disabling the car. Before the car stopped running, I kept having a problem with the alarm going off whenever it felt like it and whenever it would, I kept having to unplug it from under the hood until I could figure out what combination of tricks I would use this time to get it to shut off cause of course I couldn't go anywhere once it was unplugged. Can you tell me what would keep this car from staying started? And is there any way to bypass the alarm to get the car to start and stay started?........thanks, Carol

Answer
Ok, try this.
Put the key in the ignition, and turn forward
all the way just before cranking. Then within
5 seconds, locate, press and hold in the
valet/overide button, found under the
dash area, (push button, spring loaded)
until the installed LED (the blinking light)
in your dash area goes on solid,
and the siren chirps once.

(Your valet switch might be the toggle
(on/off) type. in this case, key on,
flip switch in opposite direction,
then turn the key off.)

This should reset the alarm, and reset
the grounded relay on the starter wire,
allowing you to start the engine.

At this point, the only thing working would
be the keyless entry from the alarm,
if it came equipped that way.

Just Repeat these steps to place it
back to usable armed mode.
You may get 2 chirps, confirming it,
and the lights may flash twice as well.

That should do it.
If you want to remove it at this point,
take it to your neighborhood installer
for this, or buy the wiring chart
(Go to: www.vehiclewires.com)
for the vehicle, and reverse engineer it wire
by wire, until safely removed.

If it does not work out this way,
you will have to replace the system
with one you know how to operate
and what to expect. Don't want to
get stuck in another bad situation.

Let me know what happens.

Robert Martin/CEO-ALARMTEK
DELUXESERVICE.com