I have to say that.......under 200 feet is a very small distance when some of these are rated for up to a mile ( though I wouldn't expect a mile purchasing one).

well realistically, how often are you really that far away that you need to start it from that distance?

i mean, from house to driveway /garage is far less then that, from wal mart / home depot/ grocery store to parking lot is less.

where do you expect to be when you start it? lol

My starter for my celica had a low range and wouldn't always start from where I work to the parking lot. Distance matters and under 200 feet is so little.

I wouldn't get a remote starter.

Way more things can go wrong than right.


Plus it's not great to warm a car up at an idle.


Just my .02

L2canadian

That shit warns up 5-10 minutes easy in -40 c weather

This.

I usually warm my car up at WOT

I basically DO live in Canada. My winters are some of the worst in the world, that's why we have FT. Drum in my area, for winter military training. The amount of snow we get is unreal, thanks to Lake Ontario.

I drive a soft top on the Wrangler year round, with broken HVAC ducting so it all gets trapped behind the dash, and a leaky passenger door. You don't KNOW cold until you drive THAT the 210 miles to Buffalo in -30f. Trust me, I appreciate a warm car more than most. Haha

But...

It's not a matter of warm, which your car isn't. There is no way your oil temperature hits 160+ in 5 minutes at an idle. Coolant temp is not engine temp.

It's a matter of condensation, and where it actually goes.

You take a sub freezing either cast (or worse aluminum) engine and start heating it up dramatically, you create a lot of water. If you were driving under load, you can easily remove the majority of that condensation, as it forms....But, it's nearly impossible to remove it once it's in there.

So it gets trapped in all the little nooks and crannies of the head, or other various places until you shut the car down, where it then begins to oxidize.


That was my point.



I'm just stating what engines like.


But I digress.

If he gets a 2 way remote starter that comes with an alarm, distance is definitely a big deal.

It's a price im wkilling to pay. To be able to see that much more, I'm not talking let it idle till operating temp. But eenough to get a start on defrosting those Windows. And not kill someone or gst killed because I cant see anything. Vehicles are easily replaced. even eeasier to have the head machined. Missing limbs. Not so much.

Just the way I see it.

This


Idling is bad. Get an ice scraper and some ice off.