anything that does remote start "can" be set up that way but this system is designed for automatic transmission vehicles only. This is one thing that i will not answer on this or any other forum as far as how it is done. way too much liability for life and property there. i have been doing alarms, stereos, you name it for over a decade and this is one thing that i have never caved on.
I agree with you on this one....I have done it once in 15 years of being an installer. I knew this guy and he bugged me for months to do it (this was before they had MT modules, etc..) It always made me nervous, but he said he never left the car in gear when parked. One day I was doing some work on
another car of his that
somebody else bypassed the clutch switch to install remote start. I parked it in front of my second bay door,
in gear. He came to pic up the car (this is the middle of summer mind you) and hit the remote start button???????? Luckily, I heard the tone from the two-way...screamed
NOOOOO, SHUT IT DOWN!! and ran towards the car and while the car was trying to crank, I was in front of it with my foot braced against the front of my garage and my arms kinda under the bumper because MY CAR was on the other side of that garage door. I somehow managed to stopped it from moving and it finally shut down. The car was locked or I would have just hit the brake. It was a crisis avoided. Later, the car that I did it on was totalled in an accident and he asked me about removing the remote start to install it in the car that was going to replace it and I said
NO....I WILL NOT DO IT AGAIN. I don't even like the idea of the systems that are intended for MT vehicles....you have to jump through too many hoops and make sure you meet too many conditions for it to really be a convenience
I have three vehicle that are MT and I won't even install them on my own cars. People can try and justify it to me until they are blue in the face and I still don't see the benefit and I will not do it again. Sorry to threadjack Yoda.
Hey Zack, is this remote start compatible with a full DEI alarm sytem, should I decide to go that direction? I was just wondering what model you were talking about.
It should at least have a negative trigger input that you could hook an AUX channel from the security system to activate it......BUT, you have to worry about shunting the shock sensor, dealing with the ignition input trigger, etc... Since he is looking to have his system as a "plug-n-play" it probably would be easier to just buy a full alarm/rs system and install that. Just my .02, but I don't know the specifics of the unit he's planning on using.
