Remote car start via phone?

I forget what year it was. The Feds used to have a thing going where every year the car companies were suppose to decrease fuel consumption. They quit doing that one year probably back in the 80's. Supposed to boost the economy. I think it boosted foreign car sales. Well now, the average size of vehicles is way too high.

grge

Well look on the bright side: with the global warming, in a few more years, he won't have to worry about it freezing in Philly in the winter!

Yeh and on the West Coast we'll have to remote start the car and run the AC first

Doug

Don't you mean, "start the sub"? ;)

Well you know cold woofers don't perform well. Ths Fs of the driver is going to be high and the enclosure will be too big. Perhaps retunning the port length will help. Need to be shorter. You can also decrease port length by placing an object near the port. Even your hand placed near the port will make it shorter.

greg

Ridiculous. How are you supposed to defrost the windows in 30 seconds?

Frank blows a lot of hot air, his windows defrost pretty quickly

Doug

I sure got that wrong. Placing a hand near makes it longer.

Just get a woofer preheater, or just play loud music. If you have a remote starter the music can start to play at the same time, thus providing you with maximum boom.

greg

near the port.

Oops, forgot where I was posting... I meant "submarine" (global warming, melting polar ice caps, etc.), but your version works too :)

Black metal works well... the brimstone warms the coils right up.

Clowns here like Doug L. and the rest of the EVIL AMERICAN GOVT PROGRAMMED AMERICAN SLAVES are PAYING TAXES through their SLAVE HINIES to these AMERICAN GOVT PSYCHOPATHS and TERRORISTS to WATCH me defrost windows in my CAR.

It's called "Mobile One". It's a synthetic motor oil. I use it in all our vehicles. The greatest engine wear occurs when you first start a "cold" engine (one that has been sitting idle for long periods). This stuff reduces that to practically nil. I also use their synthetic transmission fluid. I have a 1968 Buick Skylark that still purrs like a kitten and lays about 100 feet of rubber on the one-two shift. She's got a 455ci long block with Bosch ignition, Hooker headers, and a Holley carb.

They have. The first time I ever saw anything written up about synthetic motor oils was in a Popular Mechanics magazine from about 20 years ago. They changed out the factory supplied oil with "Mobile One" and put 130,000 miles on a brand new Lincoln Town Car WITHOUT changing the oil. They did top it up when required with more "Mobile One", and changed the filter at the suggested intervals. When they tore down the engine after 130,000 miles, the bearings, rings, and gears were still within factory specs for a NEW engine. Not only that, but they took two samples of regular 10-30 weight oil and one of "Mobile One" to -50 degrees Celsius. You could still pour the "Mobile One" (there was very little difference from the room temperature sample), while the regular motor oils became viscous "sludge" in the bottom of the test beakers.

If you were in a parking garage and confronted with a couple of shady characters approaching, who would you call?? "911" or your car's auto-starter??

The autostarter. I'd rather get away and stay alive than help the police find my beaten corpse. Do you have some strange notion that the police will arrive in time if you call 911? They won't even get you to convey your location in time.

I hate them damn cold spells! At least with cold you can put on more clothes...can't do that when temps hit 124 or so! Damn wussy cold freakazoids!!!

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| > We lived in Edmonton for a few years (we're talkin' -40 degrees on more | > than a few occasions). That's so cold that you might only have one shot | > to get the beast started (and if you forgot to plug in the block heater, | > you're "SOL"). If all you have to put up with is 3 - 4 minutes of minor | > discomfort, then live with it. You pussies down south don't know cold. | > :-) | |

I doubt they'd let you get anywhere near your car. And at least the 911 dispatcher will know where to send the ambulance...

I have done that here in Pittsburgh this past month. With highs in the mid 90s and a black car with leather seats I will sometimes start the car a couple of minutes before I get into it. I have entered it without it running and burned my legs on the leather seats and could breathe and glasses fog up.

I started using Mobil1 in my 280Z in 77. It used to leak out the head gasket. I used it for some 25K miles. In the process the family aquired a Pontiac station wagon. It was used and had a Mobil1 sticker inside. We continued to use Mobil1 for quite a while. The engine finally ran out of steam. My brother took off the heads. He never saw so much sludge in an engine. I'm not saying it was Mobil1's fault, but the stuff sure didn't clean it up. Starting cold Mobil1 will probably all sink down into the oil pan, and will need more time to get all through the system.

I still have the Z, 67K miles. I used to be able to buy Mobile1 and Z parts at Montgomery Wards.

greg

the heads. He

Mobil 1 or any other oil isn't going to clean up the damage that has already been done. In my experience it will keep the sludge level down because it doesn't create much if changed regularly.

The important missing information includes: How often did the original owner change oil; Did the original owner atcually use Mobil 1 regularly; Did the original owner paste that Mobil 1 sticker there to fool the new purchasers; How often did the new owners change oil; Did the original and new owners change the filter every time oil was changed.

I suspect that Pontiac wagon was used and abused more than the original seller disclosed.

How the hell would that happen? Those are mechanical interlocks... if you get in the car and try and drive it w/o a key the remote starter shuts off.

JD

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