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I bought this in for use with another manufacturer's car alarm to add keyless entry to my rav4. When I received the 4 door kit it was actually made by a third party manufacturer "Tesco" (or something, I threw away the box) not "crime stopper." The box had no country of origin (obviously China) and no packing in the box, just everything rattling around in there (environmentally friendly, less waste.) Apparently, by the product check boxes on the cardboard box the manufacturer also makes a 5 door kit but I could not find it online.
By turning the key or manually unlocking one of the front doors unlocks all doors. 5 wire actuators (with built in switch) are supplied for the front doors and 2 wire actuators are supplied for rear doors, (with no internal switch) and an additional trunk release or 5th door actuator can be added and works seamlessly (except a 2 wire actuator doesn't sense a key turn.)
The plastic injection molding is a little rough compared to the DEI 524-n model, but doesn't affect performance. Installation can be tricky for a novice, I would advise you to have a lot of time, patience, and moderate mechanical inclination to install this. If you installed these every day for work you could probably do it in relatively quickly but if you have never done this before dedicate a lot of time for this stuff because you need to determine how to mount this inside the door, and may come across some problems. (For example the tolerances are pretty tight between the window roll up mechanism and other components inside the door. I would advise you to research how other people have done this.)
A lot of the time of install is bending the actuator rod to travel parallel to the lock rod. I found this to be somewhat difficult as it is some trial and error and angle bending, sometimes on multiple planes. You basically install, test, disassemble, adjust, reinstall, repeat. This can be difficult working in the confines of the door.
If this lasts 2 years I would be happy for the price, but would be more frustrated with having to take the doors apart again.
The travel, "throw" of the actuator is about 7/8 of an inch, more than enough for my toyota, and the unit has plenty of power to push the rod. The "clamp" that connects the door rod to the actuator rod seemed a little cheesy, a small piece of cast metal with three screws to mate the two together. I used a lot of lock tite on those parts for prevention. I don't really have faith in the system but its working fine so far. On the front doors and 5th door of my rav4 I was able to mount these where I believe the factory ones are mounted, in holes about 1/4 inch square. After the fact I found little square plastic anchors at Lowes that seem like the would have worked well for mounting the metal bracket (better than the clip system supplied.)
The true test is if this lasts as long as my car, as I believe there is no manufacturer's warranty. At least no written info in the box.

this thing is so easy to install,anyone can do it...it'll probably take you longer toremove the door pannels than to install it...great product highly recomend it.