Remote car start via phone?

I have done that here in Pittsburgh this past month. With highs in the mid 90s and a black car with leather seats I will sometimes start the car a couple of minutes before I get into it. I have entered it without it running and burned my legs on the leather seats and could breathe and glasses fog up.

I started using Mobil1 in my 280Z in 77. It used to leak out the head gasket. I used it for some 25K miles. In the process the family aquired a Pontiac station wagon. It was used and had a Mobil1 sticker inside. We continued to use Mobil1 for quite a while. The engine finally ran out of steam. My brother took off the heads. He never saw so much sludge in an engine. I'm not saying it was Mobil1's fault, but the stuff sure didn't clean it up. Starting cold Mobil1 will probably all sink down into the oil pan, and will need more time to get all through the system.

I still have the Z, 67K miles. I used to be able to buy Mobile1 and Z parts at Montgomery Wards.

greg

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Mobil 1 or any other oil isn't going to clean up the damage that has already been done. In my experience it will keep the sludge level down because it doesn't create much if changed regularly.

The important missing information includes: How often did the original owner change oil; Did the original owner atcually use Mobil 1 regularly; Did the original owner paste that Mobil 1 sticker there to fool the new purchasers; How often did the new owners change oil; Did the original and new owners change the filter every time oil was changed.

I suspect that Pontiac wagon was used and abused more than the original seller disclosed.

I went to the MythBusters site

to try to find the transcript of the show mentioned, but was unable to. Do you have a reference for this information?

Perhaps the one with windows down was drafting the other one.

But seriously, what was their speed?

How the hell would that happen? Those are mechanical interlocks... if you get in the car and try and drive it w/o a key the remote starter shuts off.

JD

Bob Worthy wrote:

Are you an idiot? Starting the engine of a car with an automatic transmission DOES warm up the transmission also... look it up - start with "torque converter".

JD

mikey wrote:

JD,

Go back and reread the first line of my post, starting with "Out of curiosity". Chill out man, I am not a gearhead, I was simply asking a question.

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John......John......John,

Calling people idiots will only put you in a special category, here in this NG, labeled "RBL and his thousands of new found friends". You will last longer if you don't make that file.

Likely he doesn't realize he's cross posting.

I'm sure the engine warms up everything connected to it sooner or later. My postion is that everything should warm up at the same RATE. Not a good idea to have a warm motor pushing a cold car, wheel bearings, axle, dif, tranny, whatever. If it's too difficult a concept for you to grasp, that would make you the idiot. Torque converter? hahaha, well, at least you can spell it.

JD

mikey wrote:

What. The only thing I can think of good, is warm tires, and you can't warm them up just sitting there.

I did mention a cople of times, my transmission opperates much better after the initial warm up procedure, just idling in the driveway.

greg

So either you take off right away so you have a COLD motor pushing a cold drivetrain, or you let the thing warm up for half an hour.

I see no logic at all to your "position". WHY is it "not a good idea to have a warm motor pushing a cold car, etc..."?

My answer to ALL this silliness is again to point out that almost every modern car manufacturer recommends a start-and-go procedure and not allowing the car to warm up more than 30 seconds in normal circumstances... seems to me they know a damn site more about how their products will best respond than any of the pundits in these groups.

i wonder how many of the executives of the car companies have remote start??

greg

So either you take off right away so you have a COLD motor pushing a cold drivetrain, or you let the thing warm up for half an hour.

I see no logic at all to your "position". WHY is it "not a good idea to have a warm motor pushing a cold car, etc..."?

My answer to ALL this silliness is again to point out that almost every modern car manufacturer recommends a start-and-go procedure and not allowing the car to warm up more than 30 seconds in normal circumstances... seems to me they know a damn site more about how their products will best respond than any of the pundits in these groups.

Your answer is the same as mine. I might go a step further and suggest warming the fluids is a good idea, certainly better than idling the motor but I'm saying the same thing, start everything working at the same time, take off, just take it easy and all gets warmed up at about the same rate.. but then again, its JUST AN OPINION.