Diagnostic/Setup

Does Anyone know of a product where I can change the way my Ford F-350 truck behaves... such as:

- The bell dinging because of keys in the ignition
- The bell dinging because of the seat belt not fastening
- Automatically locking thew doors when you start driving foreward
- Light coming on when engine is shut off

There are a few things that i want to personalize but cannot seem to find any produts online.

Also are there engine diagnostic tools out there?

Many thanks ahead of time for your help

Regards

Scott

Sounds like you have become used to how your car behaves and would like your truck to act the same way. I know how you feel, once upon a time in addition to the 1999 Suzuki that I have I ended up with a 1981 Datsun as well, talk about opposite ends of technology! I wanted all the cool stuff my Suzuki could do to be put into the Datsun, but I never did.

- The bell dinging because of keys in the ignition

Your ignition switch will have to have a pressure sensor built into it that senses when the key had been inserted, a logic circuit would have to be created to sense that #1 the key is still in the lock, #2 that the ignition is off, and #3 that the door is open. Doable but will take a bit of work and electronic design.

- The bell dinging because of the seat belt not fastening

This will require a female seat belt connector with a switch built into it and another logic circuit, #1 is the seat belt fastened, #2 is the ignition on.

- Automatically locking thew doors when you start driving forward.

Will require that you already have electronic locks in the doors or have them retrofitted, will either have to have a sensor in the tranny for when it is put in gear and/or a particular gear, or will have to have a custom engine computer created that will either sense a rise in RPMs of the engine or a pulse rise coming off the crank shaft sensor.

- Light coming on when engine is shut off

I'm assuming that you want to the dome light to come on, will require minor re-wiring of the dome light and a small logic circuit to sense that the ignition has been turned off.

Another idea on this would be to use a double throw relay and wire the light to the side that is not connected when the relay coil is powered, then when the ignition is turned off the relay looses power the common contact bounces back up to the other contact (the other side of the double throw) and sends power to the rest of the circuit.

Those are my suggestions, but I have no idea how to design any of them.