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I have recently purchased a Viper Remote Start System for my 2006 Toyota Solara and I am looking for DIY instructions. I want to do this install 100% on my own and I want to see if anyone has detailed steps on how to do this.

I have a 2006 All stock, NO JBL, No Nav, and not a V6.

Please let me know.

This may be a start...

http://solaraguy.com/viewtopic.php?t=44 ... ght=alarms

its a huge pain to do. hope you've wired an alarm before.

I do not recommend you trying it on your own if you don't have any prior electrical experience. The above link to my tutorial is a good place to start, but the gen2 solara wiring will be different.

On top of the wiring being different, you'll have to deal with the transponder immobilizer, and if you dont have any experience dealing with that, then you're going to run into a lot of trouble.

Yeah i just finaly finished up my viper alarm (need to add a few wires for things like trunk pop and rear defroster. It is a HUGE pain and took me 2 days (partialy to my own stupidity with the imobilizer bypass). I've done remote starts plenty of times profesionaly, but this car gave me more trouble than most of my other ones. If this is your first time, perhaps you want to wire an 86 honda first to get some practice before going on to a more complicated system.

yea i'm a MECP best buy installer and i still didn't like doing my Solara. I wouldn't mess with it unless you have some good experience. the viper system isn't extremely hard but its not exactly a diy install

UPTs_Finest wrote:yea i'm a MECP best buy installer and i still didn't like doing my Solara. I wouldn't mess with it unless you have some good experience. the viper system isn't extremely hard but its not exactly a diy install

No offence to you since I don't know you, but about 90% of all the customers that come in for "repairs" are coming straight from bestbuy lol. Here in Toronto, Bestbuy/futureshop stores practically LIVE to terrorize peoples cars. I'll pull off the dash panel of a car that's just been to best buy and all I can think of is "what were they thinking?"

The solara is an easy car to do if you have electrical experience. For someone to jump into the job without ever working with these things before....that's a different story.

TLMNICK wrote:

UPTs_Finest wrote:yea i'm a MECP best buy installer and i still didn't like doing my Solara. I wouldn't mess with it unless you have some good experience. the viper system isn't extremely hard but its not exactly a diy install

No offence to you since I don't know you, but about 90% of all the customers that come in for "repairs" are coming straight from bestbuy lol. Here in Toronto, Bestbuy/futureshop stores practically LIVE to terrorize peoples cars. I'll pull off the dash panel of a car that's just been to best buy and all I can think of is "what were they thinking?"

The solara is an easy car to do if you have electrical experience. For someone to jump into the job without ever working with these things before....that's a different story.

lol, i have no problem with that, cause I personally know a lot of installers who are lazy and to half ass jobs at best buy because of their insurance policy and the lack of pay for what they do. its a gamble based on who you get, but as a customer i would never take my car there even if i were too busy to do the install myself.

good luck though if you do attempt the alarm/remote start and it is your first install.