QuestionHi!
My name is Mikael and i´m living in Sweden. I have a New Yorker -95 that wont start. I have check the troublecod´s and it says code 12. In the garage they say the IR-reciver is broken so they can´n program off the imobilaser. How can i find a working IR-Reciver? The manyfactor is not existing any more.
AnswerHi Mikael,
If the symptom is that the engine will start but then die in 2-3 seconds as if someone has turned it off, that is a sign that the body computer is in the 'alarmed' status. You should be able to clear that condition by lock/unlock either front door with the door key. Try both doors, a wire could be broken in one but not the other. If that doesn't do it, then you can go to the body computer and simulate the lock/unlock with a couple of pins and a jumper wire:
...I'll tell you how to fake out the alarm system.
You need to get to the body computer which is mounted on the right side cowl, in the cabin, under the dash, just in front of the passenger door opening. Here is how you do that:
remove the end cover at the very far right end of the dash,
remove right cowl(the panel to the right of the passenger's leg) trim panel and pull back carpeting to expose the dash liner. Notice that there are perforations in the dash liner.
cut along the perforations and pull the dash liner back which exposes the body computer. It has three plugs, you need to deal with a wire on the black plug (and one on the bone color plug too) so you may find it easier to remove the computer from the cowl which you do by removing 2 screws (one in oblong hole at knee bolster) and one push-pin. Now locate the light green/orange wire on pin #3 of the black plug. Put a straight pin through the insulation so as to contact the internal conducting wire.
Then making sure that all three plugs are still connected to the computer, use a conducting wire jumper to connect the straight pin to any shiny metal body part structure nearby which serves as a "ground" (or you can put a second pin through the insulation of the black wire on pin #21 of the bone color plug as it too is a 'ground'). Then after making the "jump", remove the jumper pin-to-'ground' connection and try starting the car to see if that clears the alarm.
Then to avoid this happening again, never use the power door locks or a remote device when exiting the car. The light green/orange wire is in fact the one that is connected to both door key lock cylinders. The wire has fatigued and broken in both of your front doors so that is why you can't disable the alarm once it is set. When you unlock the door you do essentially what you did with the jumper wire, if the wires were not broken.
Let me know if something isn't clear.
If the car is not starting at all(not even for a second or so) then I doubt it is the alarm system. The 12 code simply means the battery was disconnected from the engine computer sometime in the recent past, but that is all. It might mean a bad connection to that computer, so that might be checked out. Otherwise it is not too relevant.
Roland
