I know this has been talked about before but i can't seem to find a thread on it. anyway, i am thinking about installing an alarm with remote start it 5 speed 99 GXE max. what do i need to do differently becuase it is a 5 speed, and do i have to worry about the "immobolizer"?

Thanks

 

this sounds like a disaster waiting to happen

 

well all 99 and up maximas have the immobilizer so you will another key....but in a 5spd? that is kinda tricky....u can do it but remember that if you'll leave the car in gear...well it's not going to be pretty.....what some of my friends done on their cars(manuals) is they just cut the wires by the clutch pedal and grounded some of them(u have to trick your car into thinking that the clutch is pressed all the way in...in order to start the car)...i`'ve never done a remote start on a car with manual tranny so i don't know what exactly has to be done with the wires by the clutch....good luck

 

yea thats what i was thinking of doing with the clutch, but i was waiting to see if anyone else has done it.

 

there is not a lot of people that have a remote start with a manual tranny.....

 

well, i looked behind the clutch and i see the button that the clutch hits when it is depressed, i am trying to just unplug that switch but i cant get it to budge....i hope it works.

 

Unpluging the switch wont help. Theres two wires on that switch..black and green. The green needs to see ground while remote starting.

To safetly do remote start you need to tap the Neutral safetly wire, through the neutral safety switch of the remote start. This wire is located on the top row of the ECU right side, it is green with a white stripe.

--Don

 

im gettin my viper 791xv on thursday on my 5 spd....i have to sacriface puttin my car in gear when i turn off my car cuz i dont want to have my car drag along the street.....

 

If the shop that is doing it knows what theyre doing then they would safetly bypass that. Keep in mindits not just you that needs to worry about leaving it in neutral. A friend/girlfriend etc just reaches in, plays around,etc can easily leave it in gear.

Then again if DEI knew that the shop was doing it, theyd be out of business faster than they could blink.

--Don

 

A friend of mine has a remote start in a 5spd (not a max though) but a friend of his drove his car, left it in gear and then my friend tried to start his from inside his office. It started creeping and dragging it self up a driveway, with the parking brake on, and dragging itself under a chain hanging across the driveway, he has scratches up his hood and on the roof of the car. It looks horrible.

This little episode has kept me from getting it put in my car because I am in the habbit of leaving my car in gear too.

I remember reading on here a year of two ago about a switch dealie from radio shack, its called a magnetic position switch I think. You install it under your center council so that the circuit is completed only when the car is in nuetral. If it is in gear, the car wont start. I have never looked farther into this, but I thought Id throw out the idea.

 

Check post #7, much easier and safer way of doing it.

--Don

 

easiest way 2 do this is by bypassing the neutral switch sensor, ive seen it done this way

 

is this an expensive installation?

 

Everyone quit being ghetto and do it the way Don says. Yes you have a chip in your key so you will need the DEI 555U or 556U, or an equivalent made by another company. I recently used one made by Peripheral that worked fine.

Here is the write up of the alarm install from Studman (Jeremy), a Viper 791xv in a 5th gen 5 spd using the neutral switch wire off the ecu. http://maxima.theowensfamily.com/viper791xv/

Hope this helps
Kevin

 

Oh man, it only takes one time to have your car in a wall... Id be verrrry carefull. Im one to always leave my manual car in gear though, its just the thing i do... kinda natural now actually. Go for it, but if you forget that would suck.

 

Whats so hard to understand that you use the wire off the ecu so it only remote starts in neutral. I give up. You all can run your cars into walls all you want.

-Kevin