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Remote starters
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 9:58 pm
by QuickDrive
I'm getting my xmas present installed tomorrow and was curious if anyone has one and had negitive side effects after the install was completed?
Oh it's going to be nice to let the car warm up in the mornings without me in it freezing...
And a cool car in the summer I suppose.
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:19 pm
by boostjunkie
Leave it out of gear if it's a manual.
I remember my friend had a remote start on her Si a couple years ago. Another friend drove the car and left it in gear. When she tried to start it, then car jumped over the concrete curb. lol!
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 11:21 pm
by vrg3
QuickDrive's two cars are 4EATS, but yeah -- remote starters can be dangerous in 5-speeds. You could wire it not to work unless the transmission is in neutral, but ... I don't like the idea of parking out of gear.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:25 am
by Legacy777
You should really wire into the neutral safety switch. So the remote starter will not work unless in neutral. Shouldn't be very hard to do.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:46 pm
by QuickDrive
Vrg3 is right, I have an auto.
My girlfriend has a manual however, and there are safety mechanisms in place up the wazoo.
To initialize the starter, she has to be in the car, running, in neutral. Pull the hand brake lever twice in a row, remove the key (car still running) get out and lock the doors (keyless entry) then shut the door and shut the car off with the remote.
If she opens the door before starting it with the remote, then she has to redo the sequence again.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:10 pm
by evolutionmovement
So what's the point of the remote starter? I can go into my car right now, put it in neutral, start it, lock it, then use my extra key to unlock it when I wqant to get back in. At that point you're already cold anyway, so you might as well stay there.
Steve
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:59 pm
by magicmike
evolutionmovement wrote:So what's the point of the remote starter? I can go into my car right now, put it in neutral, start it, lock it, then use my extra key to unlock it when I wqant to get back in. At that point you're already cold anyway, so you might as well stay there.
Steve
Read quickdrives post again, it says to initialize, and thats the key word. You do that stuff when you know that you want to remote start it the next time you drive it. for example you would do that whole process the night before so in the morning it will "know" that the car is in neutral. I used to install these things for almost 10 years and just recently got out of it. As far as manuals having neutral safety switches they dont. Unless I can be proven wrong but there isn't a need for one on a manual trans. The only thing that must really be bypassed on a manual trans car is the clutch switch. Most cars wont start unless the clutch is depressed. I had a system installed in my civic and I made a contraption comprised of two mercury switches mounted on the shifter under the boot. so if the lever was in any possition besides neutral it would not start. It was 100% effective from what I could tell but I never parked the car in gear anyway.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 6:39 pm
by QuickDrive
Well, I just got back from the installers,
It's installed, and they didn't mess any of my interior up either.
This thing has a feature that if it's really cold out, -15 celcius, I can set the car to start and run for 8 minutes, and 2.5 hours later if the interior of the car is still -15 it will start and run again.
Tres cool.