RS problem or customer?

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Forum Name: Car Security and Convenience
Forum Discription: Car Alarms, Keyless Entries, Remote Starters, Immobilizer Bypasses, Sensors, Door Locks, Window Modules, Heated Mirrors, Heated Seats, etc.
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Printed Date: May 29, 2024 at 1:13 PM

Topic: RS problem or customer?

Posted By: mo12v
Subject: RS problem or customer?
Date Posted: March 18, 2005 at 7:57 AM

SOUTH HAVEN, Ind. (AP) - Police officers were skeptical when a woman whose car had struck a neighbor's home told them the car took off on its own after she must have accidentally hit some buttons on her key chain.

Christine Djordjevic said the officers became believers when they saw her remote starter activate, sending her car driving down the road. They chased it down and stopped it from hitting anything, she said.

Police reports confirmed the vehicle "was checked and it was learned that the vehicle will start and drive when the remote start is activated."

The crash on Monday caused several thousand dollars in damage to Djordjevic's car and neighbor Gregory Hajduk's house in the community about 10 miles southeast of Gary. Djordjevic said she must have left her stick-shift car in reverse.

Djordjevic said the remote starter previously caused her car to jump over a curb at a store while she was outside the car and her 11-year-old son was inside yelling, "Mom, where are we going?"

To prevent any further problems, Djordjevic said she was taking the remote starter device off her key chain.

"I don't even know how the stupid thing works," she said.

GEE... U think the RS was the problem?? Give me a Break............................

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MO

Don't Learn from Others Mistakes
You Might Be the One That Knows.

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Posted By: thepencil
Date Posted: March 18, 2005 at 8:27 AM

Things like this does happen when installer and shop owner put automatic starter into manual transmission vechile to save time on their work. The ultimate price at the end is someone else's safty.

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Posted By: mladams
Date Posted: March 18, 2005 at 1:46 PM

definitely agree with that. Most people don't realize how powerful the starter motor is and they don't know that the remote starter unit will not stop cranking untill it times out or starts the car. They won't stop for a car that's in gear. not even if the e-brake is pulled.

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Matt Adams
Electrical Engineer Major
York College of PA
Chevy Cavy Rally Sport

Posted By: nefarious
Date Posted: March 19, 2005 at 11:59 PM

hahahahahaha in my shop i DONT do them on manauls

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nefarious

Posted By: russ lund
Date Posted: March 20, 2005 at 8:17 AM

We had a shop up here put in an r/s in a Chev pickup w/manual trans.Naturally he didn't spring for a M/T unit.One morning the truck went through the garage.Guess what I got a job of putting in a start made for M/t's.

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BigDog

Posted By: Velocity Motors
Date Posted: March 20, 2005 at 9:38 AM

She's just lucky that all those times the car didn't hit anyone or hurt anyone as a result of the remote starter. Dumb..... dumb.. DUMB !!! Ignorance is not an excuse for not knowing.

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Jeff
Velocity Custom Home Theater
Mobile Audio/Video Specialist
Morden, Manitoba CANADA