ok customer buys car brings to me because it is a cass/radio , he says can u install my alpine radio ? sure i open my metra book and it says gmrc-03 great i have one , i install it hes gone . a couple days or so he comes in and says the alarm keeps going off and it wont start . i say ok lets look , i call metra and they say its the right module , but when u pull out the factory radio sometimes u need to add power to the relay behind the back seat , noproblem i added an amp to i will tap in easy? customer dad calls me and says this thing is driving me and my neighbors crazy , it is still doing same thing , i have a great rep so i call him tell him the story he says call pac , i try they dont make anything for this car , i call metra they say try plugging factory radio back in and hide it , run speaker wires the back of radio , cut and attach , add pwer ant wire and grab ignition wire pull out gmrc-03 we dont have anything that will work in 1998-1999 , i do all this take apart both sides off dash no place to hide radio so i take radio apart trying to make smaller , no go and still car sometimes car wont start it sayson cluster starting diabled - remove key - waiting 3 minutes-then 2 then 1 and finaly start car .............then wont start.......HELP ...i have been doing this for over 20 years have never had anything like this

The way I used to do these cars is bypass the factory amp behind the seat. If I remember corrctly the factory alarm was ran through amp and the car would not start unless it was plugged in. Just bypass the amp, run speaker wires from back to front w/ a turn on off the fuse box (I used an ign fuse) make sure you plug the amp back up after you cut the speaker wires and you should be good. I tried using amp modules on older caddilacs before and never had much luck with them.

i was on same track but this car has no amp in trunk you can pop the speakers behind radio , there is a relay for keyless be hind rear seat , already added power , car has been here two days now it has happened even with dactory radio pluged in i think it is the VATS system messing up , i do work for local dealer just spke to service manager , he agrees radio should not stop car from starting or give display on dash , he thinks key cylinder is worn out , if so what do i do about all my time in car .

It has an amp bro.... Its a great big fornicating plug behind radio right? And no clear tubing to tell.... But if you look on middle of back wall facing trunk its there with about 75 wires or so .. The twisted ones are the speaker outs. doors and dash and tweets are all there.....

x2 all those cars are factory amped. I used to work on lots of caddies, atleast 1 or 2 a week here in memphis...lol. If it has the resistor in the key have them try a spair, maybe the resistance in the key has changed for some reason. You can also bypass the vats with resistors so if it is a key or an ignition problem it wont make a differance,just have to put a aftermarket alarm on it.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh lawd so you done some fo packs and six packs there too... I thought that was a south thing. If you worked on that many caddies i know you had them ask for that...... Whatsssssssssss up bro

I remember the days of "my boy got 4 bynines in the back i need six!"

and god knows how many 1" tweeters, that was back when i liked this Dung Pile

soooooo after all that Dung Pile swaping gmrc , wiring factory radio , it was the vats the whole time , measured key installed resistor , no more proble , customer refuses to pay anything , says it didnt do it untill i inbstalled radio , he owned car for less than a month and it was fine ..he just picked up car when i was at bank and wont awnser phone

I got my idea of what race that fool is..... And it sounds like well ill say this was his name al sharpton......LOL sorry but maybe its worth you never seeing that spoda again give em an inch and they want a mile....

LOL and some other stuff too.....




Whatzzzzzzzzzzz up Anthony???????????????????????

LOL, caddilacs,crown vics,grand marquis etc. you get the picture.