All the Discoveries came with a factory alarm. You are in for a long winding road dealing with it. If you have plenty of money to throw away, jump on it if you enjoy a huge challenge.

Otherwise save your money and frustrations unless you get it really really cheap.

 

Offer him $400, then resell parts to us and make money!

 

Offer 200 first and see what his reaction is.

 

I see where you guys are coming from. But if all that are missing are 5 relays and for the car to be deimmobilized it doesn't seem like that difficult of a task. I found a discoweb forum discussing how to remove the theft alarm ecu altogether...

95 D1 - Alarm ECU - DiscoWeb Message Boards

In it DenisMcG says...

"A quick update on my Locks/Alarm woes. As suggested, I totally removed the Theft Alarm ecu. However, the truck would not turn over. I studied the schematics on the Rave CD, and searched dweb carefully. It turns out that Pin 1 on the 6 Pin connector (C274) searches for a ground via the ecu and the neutral safety switch. I simply grounded the wire on pin 1 and the trucks starts. As for the locks, If I momentarily apply 12V to the orange wire and ground to the pink, the doors lock, reverse the polarity and the doors unlock. So, I will install an aftermarket keyless entry and a few relays and the problem should be solved. Or I might just get one of those systems off ebay that have the door lock actuators in the kit and replace everything."

So if I bypass the theft alarm ecu to the ecm I should be home free. Or am I totally crazy?

 

Also, I doubt he would take less than 600 or 700 for it. He could have it scrapped and still have that much left over after paying the tow bill.

 

Offer him 501, Really throw him off. Scrap wont bring more then 400 to him.