DO NOT buy one!!!! Three years ago we gave my Wife's car to the one Grand Daughter when she started going to college while still taking high school classes. The car had to set out side. So I thought a remote start would be nice for her. I will admit not researching it very much. I saw different kits for different models of cars. So I assumed that they had different harness adaptors to hook everything up. I had a refund credit at "Best Buy" so I bought a remote starter including installation for the car. It worked fine for about a week. Then I get the evening call from the Grand Daughter in Waterloo, 80 miles away. She had an Olympics of the Mind event there and when she came out the car would not start. So I drive up there to get the car going or haul it home. When I get there the fuse to the ECM was blown. As soon as you would turn the key on it would blow the fuse. I unplugged the ECM and the fuse would still blow. I then suspected the remote start. I look under the dash and see a total butcher job on the factory harness. Scotch locks every where. I figure out that the wire feeding the remote starter is supplied off the factory ECM harness. I just unclipped the scotch lock. and the car would start right up. So GREAT car drove home fine.
The next day I took the car to "Best Buy". They looked at the car. Figured out the unit was defective. THEN told me the warranty was void because I had "TAMPERED" with the wiring harness. WHAT THE HECK!!!!! I just unhooked a cobbled up scotch lock!!! They told me that the remote starter warranty would have covered towing IF the unit was at fault. So they expected me to risk the cost of towing car 80 miles for their MICKY MOUSE warranty!!!! I finally raise enough cane that they replaced the unit but did nothing to the rigged up wiring harness. Then told me there was not future warranty coverage on the entire deal. The unit was less than ONE week old. They advertised a 2 year "No Hassle" warranty on this unit. The total cost was right at $750 for this unit installed. I have not set foot in "BEST BUY/ WORST BUY" since then. The "new" unit lasted less than one month.
I had a local GM mechanic tear out the entire JUNK remote start unit. We replaced the harness with a good used one and found a factory remote start unit an put it in. I will not tell you the cost of all of this. I did not want my Grand Daughter to be stranded at night again!!!!
The car involved??? A 2009 Chevy Impala with less than 50K mile on it. So we are not talking a broke down beater car. They had damaged the factory harness so bad that the security system was tripping and not letting the car start. We fixed several broken wires before we gave up and replaced the entire dash harness.
So I would never install anything other than a factory remote start.
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