Re: Remote car start via phone?

[AZ Nomad <aznomad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 03:09:40 GMT, Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


>GregS wrote:

>> Might run longer, but much less wear than stepping on the gas, and much
>> less air flowing through the converter. I thinks its universaly agreed that
>> the oil should warm up before serious torque is applied.

>It's called "Mobile One".  It's a synthetic motor oil.  I use it in all
>our vehicles.  The greatest engine wear occurs when you first start a
>"cold" engine (one that has been sitting idle for long periods).  This
>stuff reduces that to practically nil.  I also use their synthetic
>transmission fluid.  I have a 1968 Buick Skylark that still purrs like a
>kitten and lays about 100 feet of rubber on the one-two shift.  She's
>got a 455ci long block with Bosch ignition, Hooker headers, and a Holley
>carb.


>>
>> I think you would have to run a serious test in order to make sense of
>> all these factors. Just thinking what they are is no good.

>They have.  The first time I ever saw anything written up about
>synthetic motor oils was in a Popular Mechanics magazine from about 20
>years ago.  They changed out the factory supplied oil with "Mobile One"
>and put 130,000 miles on a brand new Lincoln Town Car WITHOUT changing
>the oil.  They did top it up when required with more "Mobile One", and
>changed the filter at the suggested intervals.  When they tore down the
>engine after 130,000 miles, the bearings, rings, and gears were still
>within factory specs for a NEW engine.  Not only that, but they took two
>samples of regular 10-30 weight oil and one of "Mobile One" to -50
>degrees Celsius.  You could still pour the "Mobile One" (there was very
>little difference from the room temperature sample), while the regular
>motor oils became viscous "sludge" in the bottom of the test beakers.


>>
>> One of the nicest features of a remote start, its kinda nice to have a little bit
>> of security when walking toward your vehicle late at night in a seculed parking garage
>> and you see some shady characters approaching. The sound of a car starting is a
>> good deterant.


>If you were in a parking garage and confronted with a couple of shady
>characters approaching, who would you call??  "911" or your car's
>auto-starter??

The autostarter.  I'd rather get away and stay alive than help the police
find my beaten corpse.  Do you have some strange notion that the police
will arrive in time if you call 911?  They won't even get you to convey
your location in time.