Car Alarms: Car wont start with Viper Car alarm., viper car alarm, dash area

Question
My husband is trying to help my next door neighbor with her son's 1986 El Camino.  Her husband has passed away, and they are trying to sell the car.  It has been running well, and was started many times on Friday; however, when my husband reactivated the Viper car alarm, it won't turn over.  It makes not sound at all.  We're sure it has something to do with a kill switch and/or the alarm.  The problem is that the neighbor does not have any of the paperwork on the alarm, and when my husband called the place they purchased it from (a few years ago) to tred and find out how to dis-arm and/or override the alarm, they would not (or could not) tell him how to do it.  They said that it is the car's starter.   A few other facts, a new battery was put in it Friday night (because it was still under warranty), so we know that is not the problem.    For lack of sounding like an idiot, I am at work, so I don't know the type of alarm it is, except I remember it is a 500 something and has letters after it.   Do you have any ideas on how to disarm the alarm? or do you think it could be a coincidence and the starter is bad?


Answer
Ok, try this.
Put the key in the ignition, and turn forward
all the way just before cranking. Then within
5 seconds, press and hold in the valet/overide
button, found under the dash area,
until the installed LED (the blinking light)
in your dash area comes on solid.
(Your valet switch might be the toggle (on/off) type.
in this case, key on, flip switch in oposite direction,
key off.)

This should be valet. This overides
the starter kill relay in the alarm harness,
and returns the car back to disarmed mode.

The only thing that will work now on your system,
is the keyless entry if installed.

Just Repeat these steps to rearm your system.

That should do it.
If you still want to remove it at this point,
take it to your neighborhood installer
for this, or buy the wiring chart for
the vehicle, and reverse engineer it wire
by wire, until it's safely removed.

Let me know what happens.

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