Do remote starters work on manual tranmissions?

"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Philip" <1chip-state1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>> Cars and trucks have had clutch interlocks for a long time. 10yrs anyway.
>> So if your remote starter device were wired through the ignition switch,
>> you'd be okay ... which it should be with an automatic too. Automatic
>> cars have had an interlock with the brake pedal for at least 10 years.
>> --[/color]
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> But the interlock switches on a manual and an atuomatic serve entirely
> different purposes.[/color]

The purpose is the same ... to minimize the possibility of unanticipated
vehicle movement.

SNIP
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> The vast majority of drivers leave a manual tranmission in gear,[/color]
SNIP

You don't know that at all. Just a guess on your part. For those most
likely buy a remote starter device, (very cold climate), one does NOT set
the Parking Brake rather ... leave it in gear. Water tends to freeze brake
shoes to the drum over night. So ... this fact makes a remote start device
on a manual transmission too problematic. Liability ya know.

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- Philip

"Philip" <1chip-state1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>> "Philip" <1chip-state1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>>> Cars and trucks have had clutch interlocks for a long time. 10yrs
>>> anyway. So if your remote starter device were wired through the ignition
>>> switch, you'd be okay ... which it should be with an automatic too.
>>> Automatic cars have had an interlock with the brake pedal for at least
>>> 10 years.
>>> --[/color]
>>
>>
>> But the interlock switches on a manual and an atuomatic serve entirely
>> different purposes.[/color]
>
> The purpose is the same ... to minimize the possibility of unanticipated
> vehicle movement.
>
> SNIP
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>> The vast majority of drivers leave a manual tranmission in gear,[/color]
> SNIP
>
> You don't know that at all. Just a guess on your part. For those most
> likely buy a remote starter device, (very cold climate), one does NOT set
> the Parking Brake rather ... leave it in gear.[/color]


PRECISELY what I just said, the vast majority of drivers leave a manual
transmission in gear. Sheesh, Phil. I have said that a remote starter for a
manual transmission isn't gonna happen. Sure, maybe somebody has invented
enough crap to bypass the safety stuff to make it possible to do, but this
requires one to set the parking brake every time they leave a car, and I
seriously doubt that anybody anywhere can assure that this will happen,
therefore the chance of Remote Starting a car that is gonna go someplace is
very high.

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:50:35 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
<crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>but this
>requires one to set the parking brake every time they leave a car[/color]

Those of us who drive manuals in cold climates have done this ONCE
after a rain or slush storm in the winter. <G>

"Bonehenge" <Keep_it_in_the_newsgroup_please@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:50:35 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
> <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote:[color=green]
>>but this
>>requires one to set the parking brake every time they leave a car[/color]
>
> Those of us who drive manuals in cold climates have done this ONCE
> after a rain or slush storm in the winter. <G>
>[/color]

I don't even live in a cold climate, and I can't remember the last time I
parked my car in N and set the Parking Brake. Crap, I can't remember the
last time I set the Parking Brake. I never use it as a matter of course. I
suppose I give it a good yank on a hill, but I seldom have to park on a hill
that the transmission can't hold my car on.

"Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Philip" <1chip-state1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>> "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>>> "Philip" <1chip-state1@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>>> news:zNbyf.7420$ZA2.440@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net...
>>>> Cars and trucks have had clutch interlocks for a long time. 10yrs
>>>> anyway. So if your remote starter device were wired through the
>>>> ignition switch, you'd be okay ... which it should be with an automatic
>>>> too. Automatic cars have had an interlock with the brake pedal for at
>>>> least 10 years.
>>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>> But the interlock switches on a manual and an atuomatic serve entirely
>>> different purposes.[/color]
>>
>> The purpose is the same ... to minimize the possibility of unanticipated
>> vehicle movement.
>>
>> SNIP
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>>> The vast majority of drivers leave a manual tranmission in gear,[/color]
>> SNIP
>>
>> You don't know that at all. Just a guess on your part. For those most
>> likely buy a remote starter device, (very cold climate), one does NOT set
>> the Parking Brake rather ... leave it in gear.[/color]
>
>
> PRECISELY what I just said, the vast majority of drivers leave a manual
> transmission in gear. Sheesh, Phil. I have said that a remote starter for
> a manual transmission isn't gonna happen. Sure, maybe somebody has
> invented enough crap to bypass the safety stuff to make it possible to do,
> but this requires one to set the parking brake every time they leave a
> car, and I seriously doubt that anybody anywhere can assure that this will
> happen, therefore the chance of Remote Starting a car that is gonna go
> someplace is very high.[/color]

Kan't have no fun at your expense today.

the idea is to stay in your cozy comfy house to start. you'd have to be 100%
sober and infalliable to use remote start with a stick.
"Bonehenge" <Keep_it_in_the_newsgroup_please@aol.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 02:04:52 GMT, "Searcher" <ACBRN@CS.ver.aol.com>
> wrote:
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>>Hey, I never thought about a clutch cut off switch.[/color]
>
> Newer stick shift TRD Tacomas have a factory clutch switch bypass.
>
> It's really handy when starting it to clean off the snow, too!
>
> Reach in, check the parking brake is on and it's not in gear, turn the
> key, hit the switch, voila! No need to get all kinds of snow in the
> cab.[/color]