1999 Corvette Auto Start Trouble?
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1999 Corvette Auto Start Trouble?
Hello all this is my first post as i just picked up a '99 white c5. The car has 83k miles and is completely stock. Anyways i was messing with the key fob that came with it and there was a pound button * <-- just like that and i pressed it and it turned out to be the cars auto start. After the car started briefly and my initial pleasant surprise the car has auto start wore off, it died. only ran for maybe 4 seconds. That had me scratching my head, but what concerned me is the car would try to start again and again after a minute! it would just keep trying and keep dying. Needless to say i put the key in and started it conventionally without issue but i'm a little concerned. Can anyone shed some light on this? any help is appreciated. Hopefully my car wont be in the garage trying to start itself at night.
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I don't think remote-start is an available C5 feature, so it is probably an aftermarket system. What I've seen as typical is a tach-sense input to the remote-start system, so that it can know whether or not the engine is running, whether or not the start was successful. If this input fails to register, it will turn off the ignition then retry the start. I'm guessing your tach-sense input is flaky or disconnected. This is just a shot in the dark, mind you, but maybe it's a place to start.
EDIT: Whatever button you pressed to initiate the remote-start can probably be pressed again to stop it. If it's running, this should turn the car off. If it's in a start loop, as it were, it should cease it, too.
EDIT: Whatever button you pressed to initiate the remote-start can probably be pressed again to stop it. If it's running, this should turn the car off. If it's in a start loop, as it were, it should cease it, too.
Last edited by Tuscany; Aug 12, 2012 at 07:59 AM.
