Bulldog or ProStart car starter

I see they are both on sale in the paper are they both good?  I'm looking for a basic one to start my 1998 pontiac transport.    Which has better instructiosn and web support for finding and locating the needed wires???  

I installed the ProStart and some other brand  back in the early 90's but back then product support was poor and you were on your own when it came to figuring things out.   Been away from the trade for years and was wondering if these remote car starter manufactures have improved any with fixes, tips  and trouble shooting help?

in my expreiance (i nistalled a bull dog in a 96 grand charokkee) it was very easy, and it had good instuctions, on-line and with it.  But the way things are today i think that all componys have evalved in the way of consumer conveniance/help. so, i dont think that there is a real difference, its just a mater of personal prefference

-Bergwin

I would agree with Velocity on this point.  These two type of car starter are not reliable.....I personally would not install these units because I know I will have to replace them shortly.  Not worth my time or my customer's time!

Good grief I did some searching on the net and there must be 50 or more different car starter companies out there!!!

I found out what other brand I used to install and it was the autoCommand by Designtech.  I remember a few of  those gave as some greif especailly the earlier ones.  The company made you open them up and take out diodes and what not!  The ProStarts were cheaper but a bit easier to install when doing  a simple install.

I'm no expert I was an Auto tech and we did them on flat rate and it got to be that we didn't  like to bother.  It's not like we did them every day, sure once you did a certain make of car next time it was easy but when you get a different car every time it wasn't so  great!  What was really fun is when some customer tried to do it first then gave up and  brought  you in  a mess of wires to figure out and put back correctly! ! Some people really should not be allowed to work under the dash of cars!! 

So what are some of the "better" brands out now a days if the Prostarts &  Bulldogs are on the bottom end of the scale? From surfing the web is seems there is some good and negative on them all.

we sell & install Clifford, Autostart, Compustar, Valet & Avital... all are of a great quality and reliability...... and may be brands you want to take a look at....

i always ask my customers " you didnt buy a cheap car, why do you want a cheap remote starter?"

If I remeber right ProStart and AstroStart  used to be the same thing made by the same company  just boxed different. I remeber I had a guy bring an Astrostart in to intall and  when I opened the box  I was surpised to see it was just like the Prostarts I had put in.  Had the same hardware and instructions too I think.

This would have been back in  around 1995 they may have changed now.

actually Pro Start is made by AutoStart..... not Astro

and Autostart is our entry level unit... we usually sell up to better quality from there.....