Remote Start?

Here is my take with the limited knowledge I have of remote starters...don't take what I say as gospel.

I am a little surprised the dealer is offering to do this - to clarify, when you say 'pay', are they saying that they will perform the installation themselves or pay a different installer to do this? I know some of the aftermarket remote starters have several quasi-smart features, where you have to go through a specific sequence of steps when turning the car off to enable manual remote start mode (i.e., you will get out of the vehicle while it is still running, and then the engine turns off after you exit the vehicle), but I was under the impression that quite a few installers still hesitated to bypass the clutch interlock (or whatever it is called.)

I have a Viper 5706V in my auto car with a 7756V remote. It is exceptional. That said, my installer recommended this based on my auto Kia being a slightly older model with a traditional keyed start...I vaguely recall them advising a different product for some newer cars with push-button start and the newer type of keyless entry. One thing I have observed from reading reviews is that an incompetent installation can become a nightmare fast - so I spent a while selecting the best installer around.

While I do not have a remote starter in my N and I do not intend to get one, if I were to, there is one thing in particular that stands out a bit - our car has some sort of a feature where, upon turning the car off, the fans and (presumably) the pump will sometimes run - I assume this is functioning to allow progressive cool down of the turbocharger. As noted, with these manual remote starts, you go through a sequence where you exit the car and then the car shuts down upon you being outside of it in order to 'arm' it for remote start. I would want to be sure that the remote starter would not interfere with this cooling operation when going through this sequence. However, I do not have enough technical knowledge of either this cool down operation or remote starters to even begin determine if one may affect the other.

Having owned a manual transmission car that had remote start installed on it at one point I can recommend against this. One day, I parked my car in the garage and left it in 1st gear. My girlfriend at the time decided she was going to warm the car up before we left for some activity that evening. She pushed the button and the car surged forward, hit my workbench, knocked a bunch of power tools off the pegboard and onto the car putting many dents and scratches in the hood and cracking the windshield. Maybe you will take your car out of gear every time you park and use the handbrake...maybe...but what if you dont...there are girlfriends and boyfriends everywhere...do you really trust them?



Note: I did not have the remote start installed. The car came with an aftermarket unit when I bought it, and the installer had bypassed the switch that detected the clutch pedal being depressed. I am not sure that bypassing the switch would work on the Veloster, but it certainly did on a 2012 Golf R.