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I installed a remote starter myself and the results are posted on the company's website where I bought the remote starter.
Just wanted to see what you thought. Be easy. I am not an expert at all of this. This was my first time installing something like this.
What purpose does a remote starter serve?
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I can't speak for stryped's car or brand of remote starter, but any well designed one will have all sorts of safeguards against this sort of thing. They pretty much have to be well designed in this day of litigious actions for virtually every little thing.
The one on my wife's car, for example, cannot be moved after starting the engine remotely until the key has been placed into the ignition switch and turned to the 'ON' position.
With the motor running after remote starting, you cannot place the transmission (automatic) into gear without pressing the brake pedal. Pressing the brake pedal before inserting and turning the key will cause the engine to shut off immediately.
A remote starter is a marvellous invention for those of us in the frozen north, who would much rather enter a warmed-up car with the seat heaters already going.
Agreed.
Sounds reasonable.
Cool
So uh you can do like us in the South and simply go out there, start the car, and then go back inside? ;~)
How hard is it to start the car from inside the house? I am for ever accidentally unarming my car alarm when the change in my pocket pushes on a button. That would be kinda tough on a car engine idling all night long.
It prevents you from being killed by an explosive based mob hit.
Unless they wire it to the headlight switch or the back up lights
Gunner
"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences."
- Proverbs 22:3
Great Concept! Maybe if they had had those 30 years ago I wouldn't have left Saskatchewan, but not likely.
I've done that too. Now, when I walk in the house I toss my keys on a shelf.
My next car WILL have a remote starter.
These remote start systems incorporate a kill function for just this type of thing or for theft prevention. You have to insert the key and turn it to the normal run position to do anything. Simply stepping on the brake pedal is usually enough to kill the engine.
Nah - they usually shut off after 15 minutes or so. In the northeast they are handy devices. I installed one in my wife's car so that she did not have to walk out to the parking lot to start her car in the winter to warm it up and de-ice the windshield. She'd start it from inside work and by the time she went out to it the car was warm and the windows were at least somewhat melted of ice instead of her having to stand out there with an ice scraper like we used to do in the dark ages. In the summer it's handy to jump into an already cooled down car.
Professionals don't use electric caps, they wrap a fuse around the exhaust manifold which will light up at high speed. If you survive the boom you still have to survive the crash ;)
A properly installed remote vehicle starter automatically locks the doors when it is started. It will not start an automatic transmission equipped vehicle if the vehicle is not in park. If installed on a manual transmission vehicle, the remote starter will not operate if the gear shift is not in neutral and the hand brake applied. Also, when you unlock the doors and get inside while the engine is running without the key inserted in the ignition switch, moving the shifter, or touching the brakes, will shut the engine off, and the key has to be inserted to start the car normally. You can not operate the vehicle if the key is not inserted. Of course, the kid may have the key, but then, the remote starter is not a factor in what happens next.
They automatically stop after a predetermined amount of time. Mine's set at ten minutes, just enough to keep the battery topped off.
Okay, so I'm late and catching up, but Gunner wrote on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:40:58 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :
Brakes might work too. Or the horn. (When I was in Egypt, I learned that a lot of the taxis had chirping bird horns wired into the brake lights. Step on the brakes and birds start chirping. "Cool," I thought, after I was pulled out of the street by Rafti and he then explained the practice.)
Of course, I recall placing ... never mind :-)
tschus pyotr
stryped wrote in article ...
1.) Where is the tree-hugger/save-the-earth/environmentally-conscious-left-wing out cry?????All those hyrdocarbons being wasted....polluting the air.....global warming (caused by car warming????- rofl).......yada, yada, yada.
Oh, that's right. The mother-earth/tree-huggers who, ironically, overheat their houses with wood stoves really NEED to step into a warm car.
They all have remote starters on their Saabs and Volvos.
Some truly environmentally-conscious politician - Ted Kennedy, perhaps - should introduce an anti-remote-starter bill......but, wait.....He probably either gets a ride to work in a pre-heated limo or has a remote starter himself.
2.) Engines warm up faster and more evenly under load than just idling.And the rest of the driveline - transmissions, differentials and transaxles
- warms up at a similar rate - under use.
They just sit there and stay cold when the engine only is idling.
Yeah!...I know that tranny fluid is being circulated by the pump in at idle, but it is minimal flow when the tranny is in Park....not even reaching as many areas as when the tranny is in Neutral - let alone in Drive. Check out a transmission flow chart some time.
People who use remote starters probably NEVER think about the cold transmission/differential/transaxle. The engine's warm, so let's head on up the highway at 70 mph.
Better get ready to deal with the slimeballs at Aamco and Cottman.
3.) Allowing ANY engine to idle for long periods contaminates the oil, washes down the oil film on the cylinder walls, etc......MORE wear and tear on the engine - just to avoid a little cold air - and a little exercise scraping the window and sweeping off the snow.4.) Remote starting allows an ice-cold engine to idle under cold-start/run, rich fuel mixture conditions - allowing even MORE fuel contamination of the oil....and the engine stays in "open loop" longer since it doesn't reach normalized condition as quickly as when it is being driven.
5.) Figure 40 miles of engine wear for every hour a vehicle idles.......40 miles of engine wear NOT recorded on the odometer of a remote-starter-equipped vehicle.City police cars are said to have approximately twice the odometer mileage on their engines than the odometer indicates due to excessive idling. Taxicabs are similar.
Knowing this, would YOU buy a used police cruiser or taxicab? Would YOU buy ANY used car with a remote starter that has, likely, spent an inordinate amount of its lifetime idling?
6.) As pointed out elsewhere, leaving your car idling is breaking the law in some communities.Perhaps you consider the law to be foolish, and you choose to ignore it. That's fine.
Well, don't be too harsh on the drug addict who considers property laws to be foolish when he needs a fix, so he breaks into your house and steals your personal property.
Maybe he agrees totally with the anti-idling law, so it's a wash.......
Easier to move south :)
Nah... he can't even imagine remotely starting a car while it's under water!
LLoyd
But then you get snakes!
LLoyd
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