Remote Starter kit for 02 Forester?

I would definitely use the artic package or an electric heater if I lived in a colder climate.

Definitely!

The intended mission of my vehicle is portable communications. I've restored several of the military antennas but none of the original radios yet.

-DanD

Hey Dan, where in 4-land are you? I am AB7RU (Spokane, WA) , ex-KS4DA (Jacksonville, FL), ex N4ESZ, ex KA4GCB (Georgia)

-Mike

David - I think what Tony is taking issue with is your statement: "The warm-up cycle is computer controlled. If it's not completed to the satisfaction of the computer it may well not allow the car to start again for several minutes."

Perhaps this could be cleared up if you would focus on that statement and elaborate on what you were getting at. It does sound like you were saying there that the computer could lockout the engine from starting up if it is cut off in the middle of a warm up cycle - not clear if you would say that the firmware is intentionally designed to do that, or it's an inadvertent result of a chain of events not anticipated or compensated for by the designers (conflicting sensor readings until cooldown occurs or something of that nature).

Bill Putney (to reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address with "x")

I very much suspect the latter, Bill, but I have no detailed knowledge here.....other than having read reports from reliable sources of a number of occasions where precisely this set of circumstances has occurred - a car is started up, driven a short distance, switched off again and then won't start. Half an hour later it starts as normal. Diagnostics can find nothing wrong.

David Betts snipped-for-privacy@motorsport.org.uk

Hi, Then something was not right with the car. ECU stores number of past incidents in it's memory. You can pull it with diag. tool. I never had an occasion cold or hot engine won't do a repeated start. Let's close this thread. Tony

That's true if you _*don't*_ live in Montana; Alaska; most of Canada; etc.

You'll drive nowhere until you've brought some lukewarm water into the heater core for the defroster to function.

After scraping the outside of all the glass and mirrors, brooming off 6" to 2' of snow, rocking the rig back and forth with your butt and legs to free up the tire-melt ice to keep from snapping an axle; you'll be breathing enough moisture to frost the inside of the windows .

That's not even counting the other possibles--- getting the hydraulic clutch to move; moving the shifter; moving the seatback for a backseat passenger's entry without cracking the old vinyl upholstery...

Hi, I call it de icer. And what Brits know? They drive on the wrong side of the road. Wonder how many Km from one end to the other end of Britain? I have to drive all day like crazy just to get my daughter's living in next province. They don't even have a clue how cold it is in winter here. Who cares about wear and tear, name of the game is start the car and get moving without freezing to dead. Tony

And all that with no guarantee you'll get any farther than the end of the streeet.