I understood remote starters many years ago, particularly in the Yukon or Alaska, but consider: - You have electric seats, optionally in 4 places
- You have an electrically heated steering wheel
- You have a heat reservoir to warm the engine quickly using stored heat
- You have synthetic lubes that are good to minus 30 quite comfortably, meaning cold starts are not much of an issue
- You have a 4 year warranty
- You have an incredibly complicated ignition circuit using coded keys for security.
Why exactly would you want a remote starter? Not only because the original reason (getting into a warm car) has been taken away, but because you will then idle a vehicle with no engine load in a cold ambient (very bad) and you will burn fuel unnecessarily (also very bad).
Am I missing the upside?
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