Please Help Unconfuse Me - Remote Start

[SATX2020]

I have a 2014 Express and was researching on how to install OEM Remote Start. I have read quite a few threads about it and viewed several videos on youtube. I believe I have truly confused my brain. I did find the BCM above the emergency brake pad. I saw the connector that would have pin 11 (C1) and it looked like it was already populated. I checked the hood latch and saw the harness for the latch dangling behind it. I have the latch without the connector. So if I order the latch with the connector, connect it to the harness, activate in AlfaOBD, will that complete the process?

 

[crazykid1994]

Best way to tell is take a wire and ground out the connector for the hood latch and try. My truck has the connector for the hood latch. I grounded it and it did not work. I had to go back to the bcm and take a wire and ground the pin for the hood latch and that worked. I left it that way so I don’t have a hood latch. I don’t remember which pin it was though.

 

[LoadedExpressRam]

Best way to tell is take a wire and ground out the connector for the hood latch and try. My truck has the connector for the hood latch. I grounded it and it did not work. I had to go back to the bcm and take a wire and ground the pin for the hood latch and that worked. I left it that way so I don’t have a hood latch. I don’t remember which pin it was though.

How did you insert the wire? So yours wasn't populated I take it?

 

[SATX2020]

How did you insert the wire? So yours wasn't populated I take it?

I would love to know this also.

 

[crazykid1994]

Mine was populated. I pulled it out and put in a new wire that has the proper pin that I got from another member into the designated slot and put everything back together. Could have just spliced a wire instead but I removed it completely and wired it to a ground inside the cab.

 

[SATX2020]

Mine was populated. I pulled it out and put in a new wire that has the proper pin that I got from another member into the designated slot and put everything back together. Could have just spliced a wire instead but I removed it completely and wired it to a ground inside the cab.

Which color ŵire was it - the solid purple or purple with stripe?

 

[crazykid1994]

Which color ŵire was it - the solid purple or purple with stripe?

I can’t remember. Look up the factory remote start wiring. That’s what I used to do it. That was over a year ago for me

 

[clifford15]

On my ‘15 3500 the circuit was populated from the BCM to the plug under the fuse box. Just had to run the rest of the wire to the replacement latch.