What I did to fix my steering lock failure...

Sh0velMan · 02-24-2013, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by SouthArk370Z

Did you transplant the electronics or just fake the uswitches?

Electronics are transplanted and modified a fair bit.

No microswitches remain to haunt you... no mechanical bits to fail leaving you stranded.

OldGuy · 02-24-2013, 07:42 PM

Way too much for a mechanical illiterate like me. I say, "Just pull the fuse!"

Sh0velMan · 02-24-2013, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by OldGuy

Way too much for a mechanical illiterate like me. I say, "Just pull the fuse!"

If your unit fails before you pull the fuse, you're boned.

You have a few choices:

1) Buy a $550 unit and pay someone to install it if you're not mechanically inclined.

2) Hack apart your existing unit, twist the mechanical bits around until it works, seal it back up somehow after pulling the fuse and hope it never rattles loose again.

3) Talk to me.

Edit:

And GOD FORBID some tech at some auto repair/service center sees a missing fuse and decides to put one in for you to do you a big favor and BOOM, interlock engages and you're boned.

With this method, that isn't possible, and it's actually MORE secure (theft wise) than leaving the unit in place with the fuse pulled.

OldGuy · 02-24-2013, 07:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sh0velMan

If your unit fails before you pull the fuse, you're boned.

You have a few choices:

1) Buy a $550 unit and pay someone to install it if you're not mechanically inclined.

2) Hack apart your existing unit, twist the mechanical bits around until it works, seal it back up somehow after pulling the fuse and hope it never rattles loose again.

3) Talk to me.

Edit:

And GOD FORBID some tech at some auto repair/service center sees a missing fuse and decides to put one in for you to do you a big favor and BOOM, interlock engages and you're boned.

With this method, that isn't possible, and it's actually MORE secure (theft wise) than leaving the unit in place with the fuse pulled.

Pulled my use after reading the early/warning posts long ago. Just saying that I find the pre-emptive fuse pull a lot easier and more appropriate than your approach for a mechanical imcompetant like me.

SouthArk370Z · 02-24-2013, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Sh0velMan

Electronics are transplanted and modified a fair bit.

Will you be posting more details and pictures? I have pulled the fuse on mine but am still be very interested in how you did it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sh0velMan

No microswitches remain to haunt you... no mechanical bits to fail leaving you stranded.

"Emulate" may have been a better word to use than "fake". I was assuming, if you went to as much effort as it appears to be (the outside looks very professional and you did a neat job of cannibalizing the connector

), that you would have eliminated the physical switches.

Baer383 · 02-24-2013, 07:56 PM

Nobody is going to replace the fuse in the IPDM just to be a nice nice guy,they can't even find it.

Sh0velMan · 02-24-2013, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Baer383

Nobody is going to replace the fuse in the IPDM just to be a nice nice guy,they can't even find it.

LOL.

Took me a while to find it, actually.

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