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Ok, a guy comes in with his brand new 2002 Chevy HD diesel truck. He wants us to put a full blown Prestige alarm system in with remote start. Our other installer does the install with no problems, and gives the truck back to the customer. The next day the customer comes back agitated because his truck's starter keeps trying to engage when he is in neutral or park.
We disconnect the remote start portion of the alarm, and it seems to work fine. A few hours later, he comes back with the same problem, now getting more furious. We completely take out the whole alarm system, and bring it back to stock. He comes back the next day again with the same problem. He's really not happy with us now. We are now really baffled. Our other installer went over all the areas he touched, and tested everything.
He then completely pulled out the fuse box and didn't find a thing wrong. While walking the fuse box back to the truck, he noticed a reflection of light inside one of the plug-ins. He noticed a single strand of fine wire that was hitting several posts in that plug. He noticed it was hitting the posts for the starter, and the neutral safty switch. This means, every time the customer applied power to this switch (by putting it in park or neutral), the starter would engage.
To top this off, the strand was finer than the wire we were using. It must have come from stock, and just happened to fall into place when we did the install.
Talk about an odd problem.
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