Aladdin A-2000

 This is going to be a long story. One of my friends and I installed and Aladdin A-2000 alarm on my 01 4.3 automatic sonoma. I also hooked up the bypass for the passlock II (universal bypass from pepboys). Well the truck kept starting by itself. I disconnected the battery till I had time this weekend to fool with it. As I connected the battery on friday, the positive cable sparked. Since then i have had all kinds of problems with the truck. First i didnt have any problems with it. Then the truck acted like it didnt want to shift from second into third. When i found this out i was on the interstate and at 60mph it was doing approx. 3200rpms. I stopped in a parking lot and checked every fuse to see if one wasnt blown, and all were fine. When i started the truck again, it shifted fine, but all the gauges started going crazy (all lights clicked on and off, fuel speedo and rpm gauge would cut out and come back on). Got home and disconnected the battery till Saturday morning. Got up Saturday morning and everything started fine. Pulled out of my driveway and when it shifted from first into second, it slammed into second, and wouldnt shift to third. Also it seems to be cutting my power. I have to get it to about 1500 to 2000 rpm to start rolling. Went home and disconnected the alarm "brain" and drove it. Everything ran fine. Went home reconnect the alarm, reprogrammed it, and it didnt act up till saturday night. It would shift and didnt have any power again. Went thru today and checked the connections and found the main power wire for the alarm a little loose. Hooked it up right, and everything was running fine. Got all the dash put back together, and took it for a drive, and it wont shift and no power again. Any ideas on what it is? At first i thought i might have fried the alarm, but all the fuctions work (shock sensor, remote start, arm and disarm, etc). It isnt a loose connection, because i went thru and checked each one today. Has anybody else have any problems similiar to this? Any ideas are welcome. I am about to throw the f*#@in thing in the street. BAdhabit99

My first thought would be that you didn't hook up all of the ignition wires. Is the truck only messing up when you use the remote start and then drive or all of the time?Certified Security Specialist

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Sounds like you have multiple problems, the first being a possible faulty ground. Check your ground connection. Another problem sounds like your alarm is not reading the pos brke shutdown wire. The r\s sequence should IMMEDIATELY shut down when the brake pedal is depressed. Check your brake cnx. Lastly, sounds like you forgot to tap into the second ign wire(the white wire in the harness with the pink, red, orange, and brown wires). If this wire is not powered during the r\s sequence your truck will not shift properly or at all. Make all the above mods, recheck ALL other wiring, reprogram the tach(if applicable), and most importantly. . .don't throw away sh#@ you paid for .

Here is the wiring diagram for this vehicle. Double check that you have all the correct wires hooked up :

|       ITEM      |     WIRE COLOR     |POL|       WIRE LOCATION        |

|              12V|red                 |+  |ignition harness            ||          STARTER|yellow              |+  |ignition harness            ||         IGNITION|pink                |+  |ignition harness            ||  SECOND IGNITION|white               |+  |ignition harness            ||        ACCESSORY|orange              |+  |ignition harness            ||       POWER LOCK|lt. blue            |+  |brown plug at BCM *1        ||     POWER UNLOCK|white               |+  |brown plug at BCM *1        ||       LOCK MOTOR|gray                |   |drivers kick panel          ||     UNLOCK MOTOR|tan                 |   |drivers kick panel          ||    DISARM DEFEAT|tan                 |   |passengers kick panel       || PARKING LIGHTS +|brown               |   |lt. blue plug at BCM *1     || PARKING LIGHTS -|white *4            |   |lt. blue plug at BCM *1     ||       HEADLIGHTS|PURPLE / white        |-  |purple plug at BCM *1       ||     DOOR TRIGGER|*2                  |-  |BCM *1                      ||FCTRY ALRM DISARM|lt.green            |-  |purple plug at BCM *1       ||       TACHOMETER|white               |   |PCM *3                      ||       BRAKE WIRE|white               |+  |steering column             ||     HORN TRIGGER|black               |-  |steering column *5          ||  LF WINDOW UP/DN|blue - brown        |A  |driver window switch        ||  RF WINDOW UP/DN|lt. blue - tan      |A  |driver kick, door harness   ||  LR WINDOW UP/DN|green - purple      |A  |driver kick, door harness   ||  RR WINDOW UP/DN|lt. green - purple  |A  |driver kick, door harness   |

Notes:

NOTE:  This vehicle has the passlock II immobilizer system that, when adding a remote start, must be interfaced with.  *1 The BCM is located to the right of the accelerator pedal below the radio.  The plugs on the BCM face towards the drivers side.   *2 Use tan for the drivers door located in pin B4 of the purple plug, orange for the passenger door located in pin B2 of the purple plug, must diode isolate these wires.  *3 The PCM is located on the passenger fender. On the 2.2L the wire is in a black 80 pin plug pin 10, and on the 4.3L the wire is in a red 32 pin plug pin 20.  *4 This wire will not test when using the headlight switch. This wire is triggered by the DRL system. To meter the wire, start the car with the parking brake set, when the brake is released this wire will go to ground.  *5 Also found in the brown plug at the BCM on vehicles with a factory alarm.

Jeff

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