phone jack in dsm?

[ironryder]

i was installing my short throw shifter today, and found a wire comming form near the ecu and the connector looks like a female phone jack.is that the port for a dattalogger or something?if so is that mean i can just hook up a palm with the right software and i can turn? the car is stock right now.

 

[Dream On]

You can't tune with just a datalogger. It only shows you what the engine is doing. You'd need a SAFC or DSMLink or something of that sort. I doubt what you found was the datalogger port, as it is down by your left leg when sitting in the driver's seat. Its right by the fuse box.

 

[95TalonOwner]

It could have been from a previous owner's stereo system. I know my friend has a bass controller for his sub and it uses a phone cord.

 

[99gst_racer]

i was installing my short throw shifter today, and found a wire comming form near the ecu and the connector looks like a female phone jack.is that the port for a dattalogger or something?if so is that mean i can just hook up a palm with the right software and i can turn? the car is stock right now.

That phone jack is a code blue secret posi-trac satelite uplink for the shatter-proof bellhousing's exponents. Just Joking.

The post above mine is probably correct. Chances are that the previous owner had some sort of bass control knob/switch mounted near the driver's seat and it hooked to the external amplifier via that phone-jack looking cord.

 

[blackGSX2g]

If its not stereo related, it could be for an old hands free cell phone kit. In my first car back in the day I had a hands-free kit installed and the control unit was mounted by the ECU area. It used phone cable for the base unit.

 

[Vtec_Killer]

I know some car sales lot install a device that shuts down the car if you dont pay your payment on time. Its for people with shitty credit. One of my buddys had it and it looked like a phone jack so if you dont pay your car shuts down.

 

[95TalonOwner]

^^^^^^^^Hmmmmmmmm thats new news to me.

 

[femmeDSM]

I know some car sales lot install a device that shuts down the car if you dont pay your payment on time. Its for people with shitty credit. One of my buddys had it and it looked like a phone jack so if you dont pay your car shuts down.

Damn, that's just mean




On a personal note, when I bought my car, I found a few coaxial cables running from behind the radio to various places throughout the car, including underneath the headliner....... WTF

 

[99gst_racer]

On a personal note, when I bought my car, I found a few coaxial cables running from behind the radio to various places throughout the car, including underneath the headliner....... WTF

****BIG BROTHER****



They're watching you.....

 

[AWD_Launch]

I had a phone jack in my car for my stereo system, it was pretty cool to have three different ways to adjust the power going to your subs: cd player, bass controller(used the phone jack), and the amp it self using the gain controls.

 

[femmeDSM]

****BIG BROTHER****



They're watching you.....

Haha, for real. I was like WTF

I don't even know what coax cables could possibly be used for in a DSM....It's not like they were trying to run TVs through the whole car (I'd hope not at least )

 

[ironryder]

here is a pic of the phone jack i was talking about...i also found more wires on the driver side by the fuse box,looks like is running toward the back.

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[solo92s10]

thats not for a bass boost switch i too was thinking so untill i had seen the pics. that looks like there used to be a car phone in it. thats the only thing i can think of. but all the bass boost switched are is a male phone plug into the amp and a male plug into the switch. on a regular phone wire.

 

[ironryder]

what about all those other wires by the driver side?

 

[talonTSIDriver]

Could also be a car alarm system that was installed at one time.

 

[exile]

..direct uplink to God's cellphone.

 

[Smitherines]

Thats not a regular phone jack, thats an RJ-45 jack which is the same port network cables use. Not that it changes anything...but theres 6 pins in that, and up 2-4 pins in a regular phone jack (RJ-11)

 

[ChicksDigBoost]

I know some car sales lot install a device that shuts down the car if you dont pay your payment on time. Its for people with shitty credit. One of my buddys had it and it looked like a phone jack so if you dont pay your car shuts down.

Damn, I never heard of that before. I don't know if I can really see that happening (Sounds like 2F to 2F stuff to me). I'm sure most Dsm'ers could easily disable that system if that was the case.

 

[luvmygst]

That is part of am old cellphone hands free kit. I used to install about 10 a day when they were big. I have a bunch of old ones in my building also if you want another.

 

[ironryder]

so all those wires and the phone jack is for cellphone