Zivman

the person I use for my remote starts would do it. He installs compustar. Unless you bypass all the safety checks on the system they are perfectly fine.

treimche

Lot of misinformation in here. I'm a long time remote start installer and there are great benefits to adding one to a vehicle. In a manual trans car, I ONLY install Compustar as they have the best and most reliable interface for manual transmission vehicles. They now use a motion sensor that will kill the remote starter if it detects the car moving something like 4-6". If a car is remote started while in gear, then the installer did not do their job correctly. I've done 40-50 manual trans remote start installs in my days and have never had a single issue. As far as letting a car idle to warm up, that is the best way to reduce wear on the engine and transmission. Warming it up by driving is hard on everything since the fluids are cold and moving much faster than idle speeds. I bet I remote start all my vehicles for a couple minutes 90% of the time.

Chuck S

We're now 3 months after the OP noted it was going to do this "on Wednesday" and he's not been in this thread since then!

I would have asked two questions. Both would have been "Why." Why an alarm? Why remote start" The first is certainly useless. Everyone has heard car alarms. No one has seen anyone do anything about them. I can't see driving an S2000 when it's cold enough out to warrant a remote start. My wife uses hers as her business parking is an open lot and we get stuff called snow and ice in Ohio.

-- Chuck