Cobra troubleshooting have a 93 Bronco with a Cobra alarm system. battery went dead and alarm seemed to freak out and do things at random or in reverse. Disconnected battery and charged it.(alarm kept going off with charger)can't get ignition to work and alarms goes off with battery hooked up. how do I disable and/or reset so I can havemy truck back with a working alarm???

Check for a reset button for the alarm under the dash.

Go to the cobra site, trouble shooting. Never have put an alarm in. But have tore out hundreds of them. Anytime I get a No start or problems like yours. I look under the dash for after market alarms and remote starts. I would tell you up front, That system has to go. 99.5% of the time, when I take them out and fix the wiring. The cars starts and has no problems. The best alarm systems last 5 to 7 years. Cheap ones, your lucky to get a year out of them. Like I said, when I see them, they have to go before I do anything else.

Auto transmission, c6...

Cobra car alarm does not seem to be a problem

If it is a Ford Factory Alarm it should have key FOBS (remotes). Just press the unlock button 2 times and that should stop it. Alarm systems no matter what brand always have remotes. If you have remotes pressing the unlock should disarm the system 99 times out of 100. If that doesn't work then either the battery in the remote is dead, or the remote is broken. Hope this helps. Cobra :-)

After market alarms are horrible on MB's as they have built in alarms. If you mean the remote your going to have to get the frequency code from the manufacturer or have the dealership program it to control the alarm if the last 1 did.

If you dont know how the system works I would suggest removing it as most systems dont work well with the pneumatic central locking and fail by burning up wiring it is connected to.

can it be done? Yes. is it easy? No. While the basic design of the engine is the same, they are completely different. The cobra in 2003, had different heads, intake and rotating assembly. Also the 03 cobra is an ODBII vehicle while your 93 model is ODBI. i have seen several mark viii's that retained the stock engine, but bolted on the cobra intake. It requires some modifications but is relatively straight forward. hit up some of the mark viii forums, they pictures and in depth discussions on how the swaps are done.

I have the installation and users book for the cobra 3100 series G193 3193 series

if you want a copy email me and I will scan and email a copy to you, It has how to reprogramme remote controls, reset the system from the main panel and how to disarm if required

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first restore any cut ignition wires where the alarm was spliced in to the original starting system, theis will be near the steering column, then disconnect the fuse to the unit, this in most cases under the hood near the battery.

The difference - huge. Carrol Shelby designed the power plant for the AC cobra, and the 69 AC cobra had the 426 emblem on the side, but the motor was actually a 429. Only year this was produced. To this day it is one of the fastest cars ever produced for commercial sale. The AC cobra was capable of going from dead stop Zero to 100 mph back dead stop zero in just over 11 seconds, and the story goes Mr. Shelby would tape a $100 bill to the visor on the passanger side, and tell the passanger if they could grab it as he went through the gears it was theirs - no one was able to boast this claim. The ford shelby fastback is a mustang that Carrol Shelby and Ford collaborated over. Shelby's 426 was put in the Ford Cobra, but the heavier, less aerodynamic Mustang had nothing on the AC cobra. The AC got it's body style from the old Austin Healy (I think - having a brain moment). Fundamentally, the AC cobra's are the american muscle car collecters holy grail. Everyone want's one, but no one can afford one - for an original 64 or 65 AC Cobra you can expect to pay $250,000. For the 69 with the 429 up the price to $500,000. There are a million kit car cobra's out there, and the owners act like they have something special - all they have is an over rated VW with a Cobra body kit. And boy do they get mad when you point out the imperfections!