start car via cell phone
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Printed Date: July 03, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Topic: start car via cell phone
Posted By: prdjr165
Subject: start car via cell phone
Date Posted: October 23, 2009 at 9:29 AM
I have a customer interested in starting his car/unlock doors via his cell phone,what is the best set-up for this?
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Posted By: kgerry
Date Posted: October 23, 2009 at 9:51 AM
years ago (late 80's - early 90's) we installed a black box from Alpine that did this... i know Valet (DEI) had a Car Comm unit that did this as well but again i haven't seen it in any dealer catalogues of late... just check on the starter companies websites to see who offers a unit like this anymore.....
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Kevin Gerry
Certified Electronics Technician
MECP First Class Installer
Owner/Installer
Classic Car Audio
since 1979
Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: October 23, 2009 at 11:23 AM
DEI make something called Callguard, does what your customer wants, don't know if it's sold in the US though.
Posted By: Chris Luongo
Date Posted: October 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM
Audiovox CL100 can be hard to find, and they've done a poor job of marketing it. It's crude and simple but it works. You call a 1-800 number, put in a password, and you can start or unlock the car.
(They do sell some sort of adapter to use their CL100 with non-Audiovox remote starters. Good luck finding it though.)
Viper has something brand new....I think it's called Smart Start. Google it, you'll find it easily. Customer needs an iPhone and a Viper remote starter. Not cheap but really cool.
Autopage has something called C3 that's supposed to be even better than the Viper setup, but I don't know much about it.
Posted By: 91stt
Date Posted: October 23, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Omega has the GPS-D4500 (but not sure if it is shipping yet), similar to the CL100 as Chris describes
The older Omega model that can be used is the GPS-D4
Posted By: robertsc
Date Posted: October 23, 2009 at 6:16 PM
dei is intoducing smart start which is iphone application.
Posted By: chriswallace187
Date Posted: October 24, 2009 at 7:43 PM
Chris Luongo wrote:
Audiovox CL100 can be hard to find, and they've done a poor job of marketing it.
A little off topic, but you could pretty much say that about EVERYTHING Audiovox produces. Well-engineered products with a ton of features - and almost no one knows it because their sales literature and technical documents do such a p***-poor job. ------------- C Renner's Auto Electronix
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Posted By: howie ll
Date Posted: October 25, 2009 at 2:57 AM
Agree with you 100%. 10 years ago Code had the UK market sewn up then Clifford trashed them with better marketing and dealer support.
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