Hey guys i have had my alarm installed by bestbuy a little while back and nothing seems to work right at all. looking at how they installed it, I do not like it at all. Its a complete mess it looks like every last wire is spliced and hanigng everywhere. it makes me sick every time i look at it.

Is this the correct way to wire an alarm? seems like everything is spliced. i didnt see a single wire running to the fuse box. everything is spliced it seems off of the oem wiring.

If i do decide to re-wire and re place everything would I be able to do it? I havent installed anything electrical before but i want to learn how to do this because this is driving me insane. I go back to bestbuy and they tell me i have to wait over a month for them to look at it and iv brought it back about 5 times and they havent fixed a thing. I hate where everything is placed in plain sight and everything else. Please, please help me! I am also doing a new stereo install.

 

What alarm?

 

a viper 791 xv

 

Yes it is supposed to be tapped into factory wiring, but cleanly. Isnt the 791, alarm/remote start?

 

Bring it back and make the manager fix it. Or get a complete refund and go to a real shop and have a new one installed.

 

I can't this is ridiculous. I work there so i cant freak out too much but they simply dont know what they are doing, and they do such a hack job its insane. I went back a few times telling them somethings wrong, but they tell me the wait is always well over a month and I only get my schedule the week before. Besides I don't feel like taking it back to them anyway. I just dont know what to do. All i know is I want it done right and in doing that i want to take everything out completely, relocate everything and re-wire everything unless its the correct way.

I was reading about wiring problems when not grounded properly and the voltage is not proper and seeing everything spliced off of everything just doesnt look right but i could be entirely wrong. My shock sensor doesnt go off at all. I adjusted it up and down flicked it shaked it and it has never gone off. Seems like every last wire is ran off of something OEM and no new wires were ran or anything (yet I have no electrical experience in cars so I would not be sure if this is a problem) just makes me worry when i see all my nicely wrapped wires cut open and stripped with a plastic splice in um thats all...

Would this sorta thing be possible after the alarm has been already installed (complete re-installation). At that, by somebody like me (who doesn't know what the hell they are doing). If not should I ask hire one of the guys on here to come out and wire it up for me even though I am extremely picky? Thanks you guys

 

Did they install a remote start on your S? I used to work there also, if they did it is completly against ALLL of theire policies on remote starts, simply bring it back and ask for it to be removed and refunded.

 

It doesn't matter if you work there or not they should be doing a clean and proper install. They'll just be ticked off because they got caught doing hack work. But they can only blame themselves.

Talk to the store manager and get his advice. Tell him your concerned about your car, but also the clients cars that come throught that shop. Its just not safe to do and install like that(all hacked)

 

Below is my rant on Remote Starts in Manual tranny cars, it is just my opinion, take it or leave it.

As a former installer at a BestBuy location, I would have to say this is not out of the ordinary for a BestBuy install. The installers are not supplied with any tools and are instructed to do the job as quick as possible, not as well as possible.

BestBuy (at least the one I worked at) does not value soldering, everything is to be crimp capped or butt connected, and most of the time my manager couldn't keep enough different sizes on hand, so you end up using an 8 gage connector on a 12 gage wire. Towards the end of my stay with BestBuy I was even supplying my own electrical tape since the cheap crap they supplied wouldn't stick to wires. Hell we didn't even have simple mini-blade fuses, so if I blew one on accident I would have to go to the Batteries plus nextdoor and buy one out of pocket.

With over 300 stores, BestBuy has no way to properly train their employees. If anyone I remotely knew came in for an install I would send them away, or do the job on the side. BestBuy has a very strong policy against installing a remote start in a manual car. We simply couldn't do it since we didn't have the proper parts to detect if the car is in Neutral.

You haven't said yet if you have the remote start option wired in or not. If you do take it somewhere and get a neutral safety switch installed. For the love of god do not skimp on this, I strongly feel it is a requirement, not an option. No matter how careful you are you will leave the car in gear at some point and try to start it. Another local installer, (from a much better shop in the area) had his M3 lurch into the front wall of his garge because his GF bumped the shifter into gear with her purse when getting out of the car. Luckily it just scratched some paint, but stuff like this does happen with remote starts in a manual.

 

no, he did not install remote start only simply because he could not figure it out. he was going to do it for me but after several several hours and a few days he couldent figure it out and gave up.

As far as getting a refund, I would like to, but I just dont want to make anything WORSE than what it is. would re-installation of this be possible? or would that be way out of reach? everything like the antenna and siren I would keep the same, i just dont know how possible this would be for me to do.

As far as remote start goes, I would not mind having this done but I am sure bestbuy would not have done any type of neutral safety switch anyway. If they woulden't i would be better off without it. Thanks for you concern!