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Hey all,

Im getting an alarm put in soon, and I've asked them to hook up the electric windows and sunroof but they say the sunroof can't be done. It's for an r32.

Does anyone here have their sunroof close when they arm their alarm? I don't get why it can't be done seeing as the windows are capable of it.

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It's all down to creative wiring.

What they mean is "We can't do it with the alarm".

If they wanted to do it for real they'd make something up, like... I'd do it the simplest way, which would be wire up the same outputs that run the windows to the "buttons" (the button wiring input) of the sunroof.. that way you'd get the protection of the sunroof switch so it would act as if you kept your finger on the button, instead of being wired straight up to the motors where it would try to keep closing it after it's already closed (frying/wearing down your motor).

If the window relay from the alarm simply pulses, which sets of another relay to close your windows (much like the automatic switch on the driverside) then I'd say you'd need to wire a relay with a timer in between the alarm output and the sunroof, and calculate how long the sunroof takes to slide closed and set the time to that.

[edit: you'd also have to wire power to the sunroof/windows when the accessories are off.. which would be a seperate thing - i dono how you get around that.]

It's all in the wiring but anything is possible.

most alarms are capible of closing 4 windows, so only 2 windows on ya skyline so use the third windows as your sunroof ..

If they say they carnt do it, take it to a better installer, they obviously dont know much ..

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