Hey, I just registered, I've looked around this forum for about a week now, its pretty sweet :tu

Now, I own a 1998 Civic Lx sedan, and I got it used. This car came with a Sony Xplod headunit, and an aftermarket alarm.

The original OEM stereo is on the upper console thing, and the Sony is right above the cupholders.

The alarm is a Preformance Teknique, its got a 2-way pager remote, with a picture of the car on it. It has remote start, and the trunk popper.

The alarm worked fine when I first got the car. About 6 months ago, it broke. The remote works fine (backlight works, vibrate works, makes sounds), but it won't arm/disarm/communicate with the car. I thought, oh well, no biggie, I didn't really NEED one anyways.

Now the way the guy told me everything was wired is, the alarm would only work if the stock stereo was there, and that the power lock button on the drivers door wouldn't work.

It gets really annoying to have to get in the car, then open all the doors manually by pulling them since my alarm broke.

Also, there is a problem that just came up a few days ago that when I turned the key to ignition, where all the warning lights would go on, my side blinkers and dash and gauges would light up and go off, light up and go off, in rhythm with a tiny clicking sound.

The alarm has never activated any of the lights on the car, so I don't get whats causing this sound.

So my question is, is it easy to completely remove this alarm myself, and rewire everything back to its original state? I took apart the whole dashboard a few days ago, and took out the headunit, then put it back in. Might I have messed something up when doing this? Also, I kinda poked around at the wires on the driver's side under the fusebox looking for a hole thru the firewall, to wire my new amp to.

Thanks for reading this, I went to Best Buy and asked them to take it off, and they quoted me $35 I believe.

 

In the 98's the factory keyless entry is buil into the factory CD player so a lot of installers will hide it in the dash so you can still keep keyless entry. If its not hooked up corectly it wouldn't work.

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

The OEM stereo is installed above the heater controls, but it doens't work/doesn't seem to work, and the aftermarket headunit is right above the cupholders.

The alarm was working when I bought the car, it stopped working in the middle of winter. I didn't do anything to the stock stereo already there, so I'm pretty sure that it stopped working cause of something else.

It's acting really weird recently, though, there was a clicking steady sound before, but now the turn signals are flashing along with the beat! (only when I open the door when the key's on the II stage, where all the warnings light up)