It shouldn't be as hard as it has been. I've rewired the radio harness on an XJ and TJ before. My XJ (1995 Country) had some kind of non-standard sized plug that took a week to locate a proper adapter. I'm no stranger to putting in some work.
So I wanted to wire in a new keyless entry box for my daily driver. It has power locks and they work. I just want the key zapper to make life so much easier for me, my groceries, and my passengers. I want as light and unobtrusive a key fob as possible, with just lock and unlock on it. That's basically all my car can support anyways.
I got one. Looked okay. Turns out the wiring harness on the XJ was the easy part, aside from everybody talking about the 97+ models online and giving the wrong color wires and pins to connect. Heck, I could even "hotwire" it by tapping the "open" and "close" to my "12v" on the harness wires. The problem is that the RKE boxes all suck and the one I got had such confusing minimal instructions as to be indecipherable to map out. The box also didn't have the brand name of what was being sold on amazon, so it most likely is some mass-reselling company. Model was LB 402 and that's all it had on the box.
I mapped it the way it "should" have been, with a pos, neg, and two wires to the open/close. That didn't work. The box just clicked (yes, the box, not the doors). Unlock clicked twice. I couldn't get that to function. I went back to the very stupidly described instructions and on it there were 4 different "groups" or "charts" depending on your car's setup. Well my setup should have been the primary one. At the chance I had misread the poorly worded descriptions, I wired it up to the B group. It didin't make sense but I didn't know how the box itself was processing inputs and triggering signals. I tried it that way, aaaaaannnnnddddd it blew a fuse in my cabin somewhere. I lost power mirrors, all power locks, radio and all interior dome lights. Everything else seems to work. Most likely a 10amp but I haven't got any extras. So now I sit and wait for my amazon shipment of spare fuses and hope it's just a fuse (hope and pray nothing is fried and I still have a functioning jeep) all because of a terrible 3rd party RKE design.
With a deep sigh I resign myself to suffering until I can fix it, but I still want RKE that doesn't work on 1995 technology, have a 10 foot range, and burn out every year, costing $200 per key fob. What suggestions do you all have that wire in easily enough, or that have enough online references and reviews to help those doing it themselves?
So I wanted to wire in a new keyless entry box for my daily driver. It has power locks and they work. I just want the key zapper to make life so much easier for me, my groceries, and my passengers. I want as light and unobtrusive a key fob as possible, with just lock and unlock on it. That's basically all my car can support anyways.
I got one. Looked okay. Turns out the wiring harness on the XJ was the easy part, aside from everybody talking about the 97+ models online and giving the wrong color wires and pins to connect. Heck, I could even "hotwire" it by tapping the "open" and "close" to my "12v" on the harness wires. The problem is that the RKE boxes all suck and the one I got had such confusing minimal instructions as to be indecipherable to map out. The box also didn't have the brand name of what was being sold on amazon, so it most likely is some mass-reselling company. Model was LB 402 and that's all it had on the box.
I mapped it the way it "should" have been, with a pos, neg, and two wires to the open/close. That didn't work. The box just clicked (yes, the box, not the doors). Unlock clicked twice. I couldn't get that to function. I went back to the very stupidly described instructions and on it there were 4 different "groups" or "charts" depending on your car's setup. Well my setup should have been the primary one. At the chance I had misread the poorly worded descriptions, I wired it up to the B group. It didin't make sense but I didn't know how the box itself was processing inputs and triggering signals. I tried it that way, aaaaaannnnnddddd it blew a fuse in my cabin somewhere. I lost power mirrors, all power locks, radio and all interior dome lights. Everything else seems to work. Most likely a 10amp but I haven't got any extras. So now I sit and wait for my amazon shipment of spare fuses and hope it's just a fuse (hope and pray nothing is fried and I still have a functioning jeep) all because of a terrible 3rd party RKE design.
With a deep sigh I resign myself to suffering until I can fix it, but I still want RKE that doesn't work on 1995 technology, have a 10 foot range, and burn out every year, costing $200 per key fob. What suggestions do you all have that wire in easily enough, or that have enough online references and reviews to help those doing it themselves?
