V70-AAAHHHRRR Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 I find that my alarm-on indicator LED on my '99 V70R and '99 C70 dashboard is obscured when I have the sunshade in the windshield. Not a concern most of the time, except those rare occurences when I have to park in a sketchy part of the bay area.Wondering if anyone has added a second alarm LED, maybe to an unused button panel. The stock location, at a glance, looks rather difficult to get to, but I'm hoping that running a second LED off the wiring wouldn't be that tricky. I like the VW and BMW locations for alarm-on LEDs in more recent models, but don't necessarily need to get that clever.Thanks in advance for any feedback.-KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboV70 Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 It's not worth the trouble. Do you honestly think a little flashing light will keep your car from getting stolen? If someone wants it, they're gonna get it whether it has an alarm or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V70-AAAHHHRRR Posted July 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 It's not worth the trouble. Do you honestly think a little flashing light will keep your car from getting stolen? If someone wants it, they're gonna get it whether it has an alarm or not.←What is it with people trying to talk others out of what they want to do here?Maybe I have other reasons. Maybe I just like pretty blinking lights. Maybe I'm the sole heir to the John Q. Led fortune and LED inventory and have some time to kill.Seriously, unless it's someone talking about Neutral-dropping in an Automatic to get a faster launch, what the harm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyROZen Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 i'd imagine almost any standard 5v LED could do the job. Just hook the new LED up to the wires from the OEM one and see what happens. If it blinks in sync with the old one, then just cut some long wires and put the new LED where ever you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbuck Posted July 29, 2005 Report Share Posted July 29, 2005 You can buy little self contained FAKE alarm blinking LEDs for cars. Maybe you can get one of those fake video surveillance cams to go with it? Mount it to the visor or something. A thief sees that thing panning back and forth combined with a dozen or so blinking LEDs in various locations, he sure to think twice. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maiku Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 get a multimeter and find out the voltage of the LEd, then find an LED with the proper specs and splice the wiresno reason it shouldn't work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V70-AAAHHHRRR Posted July 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 get a multimeter and find out the voltage of the LEd, then find an LED with the proper specs and splice the wiresno reason it shouldn't work←Thanks. I think the trickiest part is going to be finding the leads. Does anyone know if there's a more convenient place to reach the leads than all the way up in the top center of the dashboard? Where is the alarm control unit located?Thanks again.-KB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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