Remote starter causes air bag light to stay on

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by carverrn, Jan 30, 2005.

  1. carverrn

    carverrn Guest

    I just had an after market remote starter installed in my 2002 L200
    Saturn. The unit is a Valet Remote Start System model 561r. When I
    use the remote start to start the care the air bag light stays on. If
    I shut the car off and start with the key the air bag light goes off.
    Did they hook something up wrong or forget to hook something up?

    I've seen other such problems for other make/model cars posted in the
    newsgroups. Some said "ignition switch having more than one circuit,
    and your remote starter probably completes one of the circuits" and
    "probably didn't put a relay in for the ignition run circuit" or "need
    a special harness for tieing into the ingition harness since it all
    works of off pusle witdh modulation and grounds sometimes the remote
    start gets hooked up wrong and this can cause this issue".
    Any ideas what the issue could be for a Saturn?

    Regards,
    Rich
     
    carverrn, Jan 30, 2005
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  2. carverrn

    Logan Parker Guest

    Sounds like they forgot to connect the second accessory wire. Most GM
    vehicles have two ignition connections, usually things like air bags, body
    control modules, and other miscellanous electronics are on the second
    ignition. A few have second accessories, and on L-series cars the air bag
    light will stay on if the second accessory is not powered. They may not
    have known it had to be powered, since the wire also operates the stereo,
    which normally you do not power on remote start.

    Anyway, you can tell them that they'll need to install a second accessory
    relay to power the brown accessory wire to get rid of the SRS light.
     
    Logan Parker, Feb 5, 2005
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  3. carverrn

    carverrn Guest

    Thanks for your response. We took it back in and after a couple of
    hours they figured out what it was. I don't remember the details but
    it was something about not hooking something up.
     
    carverrn, Feb 14, 2005
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