Car Alarms: RE: 98 Mustang Factory Alarm, side kick panel, dash area


Question
To answer your question,
The alarm horn is honking (honk-honk-honk, not a continuous sound) The parking lights ARE flashing.  The tail lights ARE flashing.  The headlights ARE NOT flashing.
Thank you so much.

Answer
Ok, if this is a factory alarm, you need
to locate the FACTORY ALARM DISARM WIRE,
a dark green/purple colored wire,
in the driver side kick panel area.
Once you locate this wire, slice into it
with another wire, then put that wire to a
solid ground on the chassis. This will
permanantly disarm the factory system.

Now, that being said, the factory alarm would
not have starter kill, and would flash the headlighs,
so with that in mind, I want you to try this FIRST....

If it is an aftermarket system,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.

Let me know what happens here.

ALARMTEK