This is a 2007 Santa Fe. We’re installing a car alarm system with a remote unlock. We
just took off this panel down here. To take off the panel there are four screws. There’s
one that goes in that corner, this corner, and then there are two screws right inside
of here. This is what the panel looks like. There are also some clips as you can see.
There are those 3 clips right here that just kind of, they’re in there really tight.
There’s one on this part, there’s one on top of the ignition switch over there,
and I think there’s one down there in the corner. Basically you just have to pry them
apart. There’s one behind this little kick panel right here. So once you get those out
it’s pretty simple. Then we’re going to take off this. It’s got four bolts on it
and that will give us access to the wires behind the ignition and down here by the door,
which are the ones we need to install the alarm system. So to get off this kick panel
there are a few different…there’s a lever right here that you have to pull out. It’s
for the hood release. Basically you take these little pins and kind of push them in to get
the lever out. You just pop it off with a screw driver. There is a bolt down here at
the end holding it on, behind there. And then on here, there’s this little groove right
here that slips into a clip down there at the bottom. And right here on the kick panel
there’s these little knobs that there are little lips inside of here that fit into.
I just put a screw driver inside and lifted it both up and they both popped out and that
was able to release this. So I’m going to show you how to test for wires right now.
The uh…I have this little sensor right here so basically what I’m going to do is connect
one into the ground which is right here clipped into one of the bolts that just goes to the
ground. And then I have these two wires right here. And the schematic that I pulled up,
it said that the wire coloring that I needed was black and gray and blue and black but
there’s not a whole lot of room attached onto those wires, but these wires probably
go onto the back doors are spliced into them already so I’m going to re-splice into them.
How to test for wires so you’re not causing a whole lot of damage when you make sure you
get the right ones or not. If you can see this wire behind, I took a razor blade and
I just made a little tiny slit right there and I could put the sensor inside that slit
and see if anything happens when I touch it and make a connection. So if I touch this,
doors unlock, if I touch this, the doors lock. So I know which wire does what. So after I’ve
verified which wires they are I make a slit right here with these wire strippers. I just
basically bite down on top, bite down on bottom and then I make a slit down the wire to expose
it like that. And then I can take my other wire and feed it through and make a connection,
cuz I don’t want to cut the wires. So basically how I’m doing this is I split them open
like I showed you before and there’s a little hole going through right there. And I have
a really long bit of metal on this end that I can just stick through that hole and then
wrap it around a bunch of times if I can get it to focus on that. Just wrap it around the
opening, that way I never cut the wire, but the electricity is still going to flow through
either way. And then once I’m done with that I just wrap the whole thing up in electrical
tape really well, that way if I manage to pull on these wires at all it’s never going
to come loose. The door wires, it’s whatever light comes on when you’re pressing that
button right there for the door. It lets you know which door’s closed. So I have my tester
on the green and orange wire right now for the door. Let’s see if we can…so every
time I press this button right here on the side, that light turns on. That button right
there. Also just so you know, the instructions say most vehicles use negative door circuits.
Connect the green wire to the wire showing ground when doors opened. So right now the
door’s opened and there’s no light. That means the electricity from the wire’s going
to ground so it’s not working. As soon as I press this lever right here though, press
this button, that means there’s current going through the wire so it’s not grounded
anymore. So if the door’s opened, like this button is released, then it’s grounded.
So that’s the wire we’re going to use. So right now we have it connected to the,
this is underneath the key switch, like the ignition. The manuals show me that the orange
wire is the 12volt ignition wire. So when I turn the key, the light should turn on.
So I put the key into the ignition and I turn the key and this light turns on. Just like
that. Ok so if I crank it as well, the ignition will also turn on. So that’s the spark we
need. Ok, so we’re still working under here behind the ignition switch. This is the ignition
wire. I spliced the yellow into the orange; it could be different on your car. And then
the starter wire is this green one right here that I just cut. The starter wire is the only
wire you will ever cut. I cut this one just because it’s part of the safety features
of the alarm system. So this right here, you know, if someone ever tries to steal your
car by hot wiring or whatever, it won’t start unless your alarm system’s deactivated.
So basically the green one right here is going to attach into the ignition, and then this
one is going to continue onto the starter wire. So green to this one going to the key.
And the black one goes down to the starter motor. And that just makes sure that no one
can ever start your car without disarming your alarm system. So that’s called the
starter interrupt. So as far as the horn goes, the horn needs to go inside of the hood. So
we have it mounted, right now it’s kind of temporary, I just kind of attached it onto
this metal bracket back here where this sensor is. The horn itself is just like a speaker.
I didn’t ever show you the other side of it, but there’s, you know, it looks like
a speaker, like a loud horn. I put it facing down so that water can’t accumulate inside
of this. It’s really secure right here so I might actually just leave it. You know,
I’ve got like four or five zip ties on it. And then this is that red cable that I talked
to you about before going through the firewall down in there. And then on the inside, I’ll
clean all this up in a second. So the red cable, the red part of the horn, the red cable
attaches to the brown of the sensor. And then the black just goes to the ground and you
put it to the same ground that we had the other…um that everything else attached to.
So it all goes to the same ground. So to get through the firewall, basically what I did
is there’s a little hole which I’ll show you in a second where the line that goes through
to pop the hood goes. So I took this screwdriver, put the, that metal wire around the tip of
it and stabbed the screwdriver through that hole. And then once it was through the hole
on the other side I could take the wire from the alarm, I’ll just use an example wire
right here, use the wire from the alarm and tucked it through it like that. And then I
tied, I taped the wire to itself and I was able to pull the wire back through the fire
wall with this once the wires are taped to each other. The wire wasn’t strong enough
to feed through by itself so I had to use a screwdriver. The hole through the firewall
is right there. It’s right there. So that is the receiver, the thing that gets the commands
from the little dongle that goes onto your keychain. So basically what I did was I took
it routed it up underneath here on the windshield, popped this off and routed it down through
here all the way down. And then this is that right here. It’s going to connect into the
computer and I’m going to make it all look pretty down here in just a second. Everything
is wired up even though it looks like a complete mess, it is pretty organized. Basically there
are two sets of wires. There’s this set going up to the ignition and this set which
is all kind of bundled in with wires down here in this, beneath this kick panel. So
it’s pretty easy to clean up, all you gotta do is kind of, you know, take zip ties and
just kind of clean up the wires. I’m going to mount the main computer unit which is this
guy up underneath there on a firm surface probably with zip ties; I might get some sticky
tape and put that underneath as well. You can lock the car, unlock the car, and then
this also has different buttons where you can do the uh, unlock the back, but this car
is tied in with just the normal unlock button. There are a bunch of different wires on here;
actually I’m going to show you what this alarm sounds like. So it just goes off like
that. There are a bunch of wires I didn’t use. We just wanted them for the door unlock
and the alarm features. The actual alarm system does have other features you can attach to
it. So that actual computer part of it needs to be mounted on something pretty sturdy.
So what I did is this plastic plate is something that I bolt on before I put the finish plastic
over the steering wheel cover. I just drilled four holes in it and then zip tied this to
it so it’s pretty sturdy. And then this will show up underneath where I can plug all
the wires to on each side. And then right here is where you adjust the sensitivity of
it. So once I have it actually mounted I won’t be able to adjust the sensitivity very easily,
but that should be a good place for now is have it right in the center there. So this
is where I have that computer zip tied in, and then there is a big bundle of wires up
there and the rest are down inside of here where the kick panel’s going to go. So it’s
all taken care of. I did it all up with zip ties, electrical tape gets kind of messy after
a time and it all melts together. So anyway now I just need to put the plastics on and
we’re good to go. There are no wires visible below. I have the thing up here posted and
the wires along here. And inside there is the speaker for the siren. Anyway, so yeah,
there you go. That’s how you install an alarm system in a car. It’s pretty general.
All cars are the same; I’ve done this in a Tacoma and this Santa Fe. So yeah. If you
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