The battery in my wife's car (a 2000 off topic vehicle with an aftermarket remote starting system) died this morning. Not even a charge would bring it back. She had tried to start it remotely but it had reached the end of it's life. I replaced the battery reconnecting the positive side first and when I placed the negative wire on the negative post the car immediately started up. It never occurred to me that "somewhere" in the cars computer there was a signal stored to start up the car. I mean the battery was DEAD. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but under similar cir***stances, keep your hands and elbows away from anything that moves under the hood.
The few remote start systems ive installed all had a pin switch that overrided the system if the hood was OPEN. I guess your installer skipped that part of the install.
that would have been fun if the car was stick and left in gear... My 2001 f250 had remote start installed when I bought it, and it has a large sticker next to the batteries warning of it starting after reinstalling the bat.
Most do - you should see my box of switches Cosmo Oh, and how DID we EVER survive without a remote starter??
Exactly what i was going to say.. Most computerized systems have relatively high capacitance hence the reason you turn your computer off for atleast 30 seconds
Its a wonder you didn"t fry some of the electronics on it anyway,Always hook the ground up first when changing batteries .
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I was JUST saying that to my buddy as we left work. he climbed into his preheated dodge ram and i climbed into my ice cold bird, with vinyl seats
I think the one in my winter beater will do the same but if I ever have to disconnect the battery I will have the key fob in hand when I hook the battery up when the time comes to change the battery.
Had a customer with a 74' Firebird ****box with remote start. Whoever installed had the carb tuned super super rich to make it work.
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