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ike84 · 04-22-2022, 07:32 PM

There have been some writeups about it. Here's the basics...

The immobilizer control unit is under the driver's seat. Remove the seat to gain access. Locate the wires coming from the door lock cylinders - lock(brown/white), unlock(brown/red), and trunk release (blue/black). The immobilizer activates these functions when the lock cylinder turning causes them to ground out. So, follow the wiring diagram on your new lock system to splice in the wires for a ground activated setup (vampire clips or posiclips work fine.). Voila. New remote.

A few additional things here. I have not done this yet so I can't personally verify that it works (yet). Second, this method of locking and unlocking emulates you turning a key in the door. Do not use the wires from the central locking switch - I'm pretty sure that these will NOT activate/deactivate the alarm system itself. Lastly, the colors I wrote above SHOULD be correct for MY2000+ but it has recently come to my attention that the 986.2 (03-04) cars have differences in their wiring schema and to the best of everyone's ability, no one has found wiring diagrams for those years.

Happy hunting!

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04-22-2022, 07:32 PM	#4
ike84 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2020 Location: KY Posts: 1,214	There have been some writeups about it. Here's the basics... The immobilizer control unit is under the driver's seat. Remove the seat to gain access. Locate the wires coming from the door lock cylinders - lock(brown/white), unlock(brown/red), and trunk release (blue/black). The immobilizer activates these functions when the lock cylinder turning causes them to ground out. So, follow the wiring diagram on your new lock system to splice in the wires for a ground activated setup (vampire clips or posiclips work fine.). Voila. New remote. A few additional things here. I have not done this yet so I can't personally verify that it works (yet). Second, this method of locking and unlocking emulates you turning a key in the door. Do not use the wires from the central locking switch - I'm pretty sure that these will NOT activate/deactivate the alarm system itself. Lastly, the colors I wrote above SHOULD be correct for MY2000+ but it has recently come to my attention that the 986.2 (03-04) cars have differences in their wiring schema and to the best of everyone's ability, no one has found wiring diagrams for those years. Happy hunting! Sent from my SM-G970U1 using Tapatalk __________________ 2000 Box Base, Renegade Stage 1 performance mods complete, more to come When the owners manual says that the laws of physics can't be broken by this car, I took it as a challenge... Last edited by ike84; 04-22-2022 at 08:29 PM.