help with surplus wiring & alarm

[sooby]

Hi guys,

Today I've been trying to remove the TV antenna & wiring that came with my car, and while doing that I came across a massive amount of surplus wire that connects to nothing (left over from a GPS / TV tuner / god knows what else) and I'm a little concerned that if I remove this redundant wiring that it may screw with my alarm & immobilizer.

Heres a pic:

and here is a pic of where it joins the cars ECU (small red plug at centre left) :

Rational part of me says that seeing as how none of that wiring was connected to anything when the alarm was installed - it shouldn't change things if the wiring is removed. Just wanna check first before I go all snip happy tho!

Any alarm / electronics experts out there able to tell me if I'm likely to run into trouble if I remove all the cables?

cheers

[Guest loren]

don't touch it unless you know what you are doing and the entire loom is out of the car

before hand. it's kind of pointless just chopping the wires off where they enter the loom,

and opening up the loom is a pretty big and complex task.

[Guest boostin]

That will be connected to the vehicle speed sensor signal. Seen plenty of those.

[Guest]

i did the same thing, removed the gps and stuff, i took out all my wiring from it with no issues.

-smurff

[Guest loren]

I thought he wanted to strip stuff from the factory loom, but maybe not.

[sooby]

cheers guys for your comments.

all the excess wiring is just sitting there & is only connected to the original wiring loom at the ECU by that one lime green wire & red junction box.

I guess I'll label which wires I cut & hope if sh!t happens I can simply re-connect what I cut.

[sooby]

 boostin said:

That will be connected to the vehicle speed sensor signal. Seen plenty of those.

what would be the point of that?

[Guest]

think its for the GPS

-smurff

[nzkaosnz]

or to disable screen when car moving.

[sooby]

thanks fullas,

GPS makes sense, funny thing was, I think there was one yellow wire going from the surplus wiring the length of the car to the tail-light / brake light, wonder what that was for?

[Guest lan_killa]

as long as your certain its not connected to anything then remove at will, but would recommend you remove 1 wire at a time then check everything still works before removing another, unless certain its got no other connections.

option 2, tidy it up... small cable ties and black tape = win

[Guest boostin]

If you're in Auckland, bring it to me. I'll rip it all out for you.

[Guest lan_killa]

hes in hamilton i think

[sooby]

 lan_killa']

as long as your certain its not connected to anything then remove at will, but would recommend you remove 1 wire at a time then check everything still works before removing another, unless certain its got no other connections.

sounds like the best plan, cheers!

option 2, tidy it up... small cable ties and black tape = win

mate, there is at least a metre or two of wiring there - I'd rather loose it completely than have to hide it under the carpets.

[quote name='boostin said:

If you're in Auckland, bring it to me. I'll rip it all out for you.

thanks for the offer - but Im in taupo

[Guest boostcut]

i see your in taupo... go to wings and wheels hyundai, ask for deon. tell him adam sent you. he will sort you out a sweet price.. i.e bourbons or something.

[sooby]

all sorted - cut wires & no problems at all.

removed 5m of TV arial wires & about 3m of GPS wires, im sure I'll notice the 0.000021543 cent savings next time I fill the tank

[Guest boostin]

Sweet. You'll get an extra 200 metres per tank now. ;D

[sooby]

 boostin said:

Sweet. You'll get an extra 200 metres per tank now. ;D

ha, ha - heres hoping!

plus I've listed it all on tard me, so may even get some sucker to pay me to take it away (instead of me paying to dump it!)

[Guest lan_killa]

just found the auction, looks like theres a fair collection there

[sooby]

 lan_killa said:

just found the auction, looks like theres a fair collection there

yeap, and that's excluding the actual TV tuner unit I sold months ago