I was trying to trace down an audio problem on the 1999 Dodge Dakota R/T I bought earlier this year (ended up being a bad factory amp).
While I was looking around, I found a mystery black box up under the dash. It's got a couple wires ran to a remote push button switch. A white wire to ground, a black wire that's cut off, blue and green wire that I believe tap into +12v wires in the steering column and two orange wires that are attached to the cut factory dark blue/yellow strip wire which I believe goes to the starter relay. There are no markings on the box other than a label that says 36843 and another than says Rev 30A. The box is about 3"x4" and 1.5" deep.
The truck appears to have the factory security system (has the blinking security light in the cluster) but I haven't verified that yet. Anyway it seems to make no difference if the factory alarm is armed, the truck starts and runs when the factory alarm should cut it off. As far as I can tell, the truck behaves as if there is no security system either factory or aftermarket.
Any ideas? Is this an aftermarket alarm module? Or a remote start box? I even took the cover off the box and there's still nothing I can find to ID the box.
While I was looking around, I found a mystery black box up under the dash. It's got a couple wires ran to a remote push button switch. A white wire to ground, a black wire that's cut off, blue and green wire that I believe tap into +12v wires in the steering column and two orange wires that are attached to the cut factory dark blue/yellow strip wire which I believe goes to the starter relay. There are no markings on the box other than a label that says 36843 and another than says Rev 30A. The box is about 3"x4" and 1.5" deep.
The truck appears to have the factory security system (has the blinking security light in the cluster) but I haven't verified that yet. Anyway it seems to make no difference if the factory alarm is armed, the truck starts and runs when the factory alarm should cut it off. As far as I can tell, the truck behaves as if there is no security system either factory or aftermarket.
Any ideas? Is this an aftermarket alarm module? Or a remote start box? I even took the cover off the box and there's still nothing I can find to ID the box.