Remote Starter - Page 2

BG624 · #11 02-15-2007, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Slalom

Hah! it was -31 this morning, and I think that remote starters are bad for the environment, bad for the car (as per JCL)

Besides when I was a kid it was minus 40 four months of the year and I had to walk 5 miles to and from school uphill and into the wind both ways

Yeah I know with rags for shoes, no coat etc., etc. but hey this is 2007 and I like to be warm when it's freezing out.

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jcreed · #12 02-15-2007, 07:35 PM

aux heating option is not available?? it might just be standard because on my i drive there is a option for me to heat up the car at a preset time. at least i think that what it does since i havent tried it but thats what the name of the option suggest. ill take a pic of it later and show you guys what i mean.

jcreed · #13 02-15-2007, 10:09 PM

is this it?

JCL · #14 02-16-2007, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by BG624

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.

20F isn't cold. That is only -5C. Did you mean -20F? At 20F you don't need a car starter, you need a sweater. I didn't use an automatic starter at -40C. I did use a 120V plug-in car warmer (for the interior) at -52C. But then I also had a 120V battery blanket, two immersion block heaters, and a stick-on oil pan blanket.

On my E53 and E46, my heated seats are feeling warm after one block, long before the engine produces heat. My heated steering wheel is warm by the end of the driveway.

jcreed · #15 02-16-2007, 12:59 AM

i agree. heated seats and steering wheels heats up in 1 min.

BG624 · #16 02-16-2007, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by JCL

20F isn't cold. That is only -5C. Did you mean -20F? At 20F you don't need a car starter, you need a sweater. I didn't use an automatic starter at -40C. I did use a 120V plug-in car warmer (for the interior) at -52C. But then I also had a 120V battery blanket, two immersion block heaters, and a stick-on oil pan blanket.

On my E53 and E46, my heated seats are feeling warm after one block, long before the engine produces heat. My heated steering wheel is warm by the end of the driveway.

I can not compete with you, you are a much heartier man than I. I like being warm when I want to be warm. I'll have to do my search in a stealthier way so I'm not attracting so much negative attention, but I stand by my explanation above that the extra fuel usage, additional engine wear etc. is absolutely meaningless over the life of the car.