Look by the clock, there should be a factory flashing security light, if you have that, you have an immobilizer.
Thank you very much, Trunk Monkey!
Damn that truck looks awesome. Do rigs gets rusty out in your part of the world ?
Thanks, NXP,
Yes, rigs certainly do get corrosion from the salty air near the ocean! I'm going to look into having it fully treated.
Yeah, I only recently bought this baby, and as a consequence, I'm now an off-roader for the first time in my 66 years! LOVE it.
I have a reasonable amount of amateur experience, though not by ever owning a 4WD vehicle.
I'm in Western Australia, and I've taken this beast to some (naughty and unrecommended) limits around and through the country, and it performed *flawlessly*.
I bought it 2 years ago with a *lot* of bells and whistles that I have now tested in the wild.
I've since added to it and modified the interior.
To reduce weight, I removed the rear 2/3 seat - remember, Australians drive on the left!
I installed a raised bed, 2 m (6 ft, 8 inches) long, directly behind the driver's seat. It can be extended another 30 cm (1 ft) by sliding the driver's seat forward, tilting it and clipping in a small bespoke folding panel.
I removed the front passenger seat (on the left), creating a "living room" with plenty of legroom from the remaining rear seat to the firewall under the glove compartment.
In front of the rear seat, I put in a slightly raised floor over all the brackets and floor pan bumps, so there's storage under that for recovery gear, communications electronics, etc., and it gives me a flat loungeroom floor.
There's a fridge behind the rear passenger seat, and two of the usual rear-opening storage drawers under the bed/fridge level.
If you can visualise all that, you'll realise there's also now a large storage space under the forward half of the bed, immediately behind the driver's seat, where the rear 2/3 seat used to be.
To reduce more weight, I removed the spare wheel and its bracket hanging off the right rear bumper and put the spare wheel back under the vehicle.
The matching bracket on the left side of the rear bumper has two "jerry can" cages for fuel/water drums.
The beast is a drop-tailgate model, and storage in the inner panel space of the drop-down tailgate is accessed via a bespoke cupboard door.
Above and around the left rear wheel hub, within the panel, is my third battery plus "assist and emergency" storage space, accessed via an external, lockable, solid gull-wing door where the rear, side window used to be.
"Mission Control" wraps around the driver's seat, with multiple comms and a Panasonic headset display angled towards me, its unit installed where the clock used to be.
This is where I would have seen the immobiliser icon!!!
The rear windows are covered with reflective foil, so the cab's rear-view mirror is obsolete; I removed it.
I also have a (legal) amount of the windscreen blacked out at the top and bottom, so, with the front passenger's seat headrest now also gone, I have a long, panoramic "letterbox" view of the world as I drive through it - unobstructed from the right rear passenger's window all the way around to the left rear passenger's window. It's awesome!
It's mostly just me in the vehicle, with one passenger occasionally in the "lounge room" using the rear seat - with its seatbelt of course!
I'm self-sufficient, can stop and sleep wherever and whenever I like. I can cook, sleep, lounge, relax under the awning and enjoy the driving with great visibility.
And I have a few more 'toys' I want to add before I head off on a 30,000 km expedition around and through Australia.
Hope you enjoyed this ramble.
Look by the clock, there should be a factory flashing security light, if you have that, you have an immobilizer.
Hey Truck Monkey, I've just realised that the slot where my clock, etc., would have been is now used by an aftermarket Panasonic headset/screen. Is there another way to determine if I have an immobiliser, where it is, and where the wiring is? I'd like to track it down and make it operational.
Hi folks,
I have an HDJ100R built in December 2000 at the Yoshiwara plant in Japan.
I'd like to install an immobiliser on it, but I've discovered it may already have a factory-fitted one!
How would I find out if it has one, and if it does, what do I need to do to get it working?
Thanks in advance.
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For information, I found this useful:
Engine Immobiliser System | New Car Features | BODY ELECTRICAL | Ac... - https://lc100e.github.io/new-car-features/body-electrical/accessories/engine-immobiliser-system/
Hi folks,
I have an HDJ100R built in December 2000 at the Yoshiwara plant in Japan.
I'd like to install an immobiliser on it, but I've discovered it may already have a factory-fitted one!
How would I find out if it has one, and if it does, what do I need to do to get it working?
Thanks in advance.
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Problem solved, thanks for commenting. A mobile key guy came out on a Sunday and programmed two new keys. AUD 650
