remote start problems
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Racer
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remote start problems
ok i deployed for a few months. during that time my cars lovely redtop optima crap died several times. wife said it would roughly last a week without a problem. Then after that it would die. well the problem is that when i go to start the car with the remote, you can hear the fuel pump and the inside lights turn on, but it just wont crank over. the remote also likes to unlock the car randomly. i have reset the system the way that the scosche manual says with no luck. also no one else has been any help at the place that i installed it at
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From: EXTON PA
ok i deployed for a few months. during that time my cars lovely redtop optima crap died several times. wife said it would roughly last a week without a problem. Then after that it would die. well the problem is that when i go to start the car with the remote, you can hear the fuel pump and the inside lights turn on, but it just wont crank over. the remote also likes to unlock the car randomly. i have reset the system the way that the scosche manual says with no luck. also no one else has been any help at the place that i installed it at
Last edited by kg54trains; Aug 14, 2009 at 11:54 AM. Reason: update
Instructor
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From: Sachse Texas
I have a clifford remote starter on my car without any electrical issues for the last 5 years(knock on wood). When I did have an issue with it it turned out to be a broken hood pin switch. My symptoms were the same...she would try to crank but sounded like it just wouldnt turn all the way over. Turned out the hood pin had broken off causing the circuit to remain open making the remote starter think my hood was open therefore no start.
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ok i deployed for a few months. during that time my cars lovely redtop optima crap died several times. wife said it would roughly last a week without a problem. Then after that it would die. well the problem is that when i go to start the car with the remote, you can hear the fuel pump and the inside lights turn on, but it just wont crank over. the remote also likes to unlock the car randomly. i have reset the system the way that the scosche manual says with no luck. also no one else has been any help at the place that i installed it at
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The problem could be your battery. Red tops are not good batteries for a car that is not driven daily. They can prematurely fail if they are fully discharged just a few times.
My car is a garage queen that is stored for 6 or 7 winter months and then only driven a couple times a month in the summer. I bought the car new, in the winter and drove it home and put it in storage. In the spring when I went to get the car out the battery was dead, and wouldn't take a charge. So I bought an Optima red top and a battery tender.
A red top will go completely dead if not started in my car in about a month. Even though I bought a battery tender occasionally I didn't use it in the summer (thinking that I was going to use the car in a few days and then going about a month). I got a little over the 3 years that the battery is warrantied out of it but that was all, but I have since learned that they don't do well in these car if not a DD (not necessarily a dig on Optima batteries, but AGM batteries in general) so I bought a high quality conventional battery and my car is much better off.
My car is a garage queen that is stored for 6 or 7 winter months and then only driven a couple times a month in the summer. I bought the car new, in the winter and drove it home and put it in storage. In the spring when I went to get the car out the battery was dead, and wouldn't take a charge. So I bought an Optima red top and a battery tender.
A red top will go completely dead if not started in my car in about a month. Even though I bought a battery tender occasionally I didn't use it in the summer (thinking that I was going to use the car in a few days and then going about a month). I got a little over the 3 years that the battery is warrantied out of it but that was all, but I have since learned that they don't do well in these car if not a DD (not necessarily a dig on Optima batteries, but AGM batteries in general) so I bought a high quality conventional battery and my car is much better off.
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From: EXTON PA
The problem could be your battery. Red tops are not good batteries for a car that is not driven daily. They can prematurely fail is they are fully discharged just a few times.
My car is a garage queen that is stored for 6 or 7 winter months and then only driven a couple times a month in the summer. I bought the car new, in the winter and drove it home and put it in storage. In the spring when I went to get the car out the battery was dead, and wouldn't take a charge. So I bought an Optima red top and a battery tender.
A red top will go completely dead if not started in my car in about a month. Even though I bought a battery tender occasionally I didn't use it in the summer (thinking that I was going to use the car in a few days and then going about a month). I got a little over the 3 years that the battery is warrantied out of it but that was all, but I have since learned that they don't do well in these car if not a DD (not necessarily a dig on Optima batteries, but AGM batteries in general) so I bought a high quality conventional battery and my car is much better off.
My car is a garage queen that is stored for 6 or 7 winter months and then only driven a couple times a month in the summer. I bought the car new, in the winter and drove it home and put it in storage. In the spring when I went to get the car out the battery was dead, and wouldn't take a charge. So I bought an Optima red top and a battery tender.
A red top will go completely dead if not started in my car in about a month. Even though I bought a battery tender occasionally I didn't use it in the summer (thinking that I was going to use the car in a few days and then going about a month). I got a little over the 3 years that the battery is warrantied out of it but that was all, but I have since learned that they don't do well in these car if not a DD (not necessarily a dig on Optima batteries, but AGM batteries in general) so I bought a high quality conventional battery and my car is much better off.
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