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Originally Posted by JCL
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).
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When the ambient temp. is very cold 20* F. or less, heated seats and steering wheels don't offer much. By the time the seats get warm your getting heat from the engine, besides a warm butt is not a warm body. As far as stored heat I'm talking about a car that's been sitting long enough so there is none. Regarding using fuel unnecesarily, if fuel usage is a major issue for you this is not the vehicle you should get, the little additional fuel used for 5 minutes on very cold days over the life of the car is meaningless. The flow rate of synthetic oil at cold temps. is such that the additional wear for those 5 minutes on very cold days over the life of the car is also meaningless. So to summarize, the reason for a remote start system is so the interior of the vehicle will be warm when I or my wife enter the car with our freezing cold bodies.
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